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When Jim Sloan, 23, returned to Harvard after service as an Army sergeant in Viet Nam, he was laughingly labeled "the resident fascist pig of Adams House." Richard Parish, 22, was an Air Cav rifleman when a chunk of Communist shrapnel ripped his right shoulder to the joint; back in Michigan as a civilian, the Negro high school graduate was unable to pass physical examinations at either Cadillac Motors or Detroit Edison, and reluctantly began drawing disability pay. First Lieut. Leo Glover, 26, won a Silver Star and a Purple Heart near the DMZ as a Marine air controller, then...
...Bong Son plain, bordering on the South China Sea, the 1st Cavalry (Airmobile) and South Vietnamese troops routed two battalions of North Vietnamese regulars, killing more than 250. U.S. Marines south of Danang killed 99 North Vietnamese in a day's battle. Not far away, an Air Cav reconnaissance helicopter team got in a shooting match on the ground and killed the regimental commander of the 3rd Regiment, 2nd Division of the North Vietnamese army. On him and his party were five pounds of important documents, including maps showing all of the U.S. positions near by and the N.V.A...
...course, try to come back again; but then so may the Air Cav. Some hard-core villages have received the Air Cav's cordon-and-search treatment no fewer than eleven times. In one three-month stretch recently, the Air Cav conducted 276 such operations-screening 48,470 people, searching 16,111 houses, capturing 789 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong and killing 70. In the process, the Air Cav is denying food, taxes, recruits and intelligence to the main-force Communist units hiding in the hills above Binh Dinh, and destroying an infrastructure that the Communists have painstakingly built...
Novel Harassment. The Air Cav's quick reflexes are still always ready to respond to major ground action when heliborne muscle is needed, or to tangle with any main-force units that dare come out and fight in Binh Dinh. Since few any longer do, the division is using its airpower to harass the Viet Cong in other novel ways. One is Operation Snatch, which is employed whenever a roving Air Cav chopper spots a suspiciously large group of people in the countryside. The Cavalrymen immediately dive down to pick up a few suspects for questioning, a tactic that...
...Cav's switch in roles is only part of a gradual change in the use of U.S. Army units throughout Viet Nam. The U.S. 199th Brigade has been circling Saigon since December in an exclusively security operation named "Fairfax," which is designed to keep the Viet Cong from building up strength too near the capital. The brigade's search partners are not police but Vietnamese Rangers, working in completely integrated "supercompanies" made up of one U.S. and one Vietnamese com pany. The U.S. 9th Division is also involved in intermediate warfare, working closely with the ARVN...