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...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 discourages the Viet Cong from moving around amid the protective coloration of groups of harvesters or peasants on their way to market...
Similarly, the President has appeared unwilling or unable to convey any sense of urgency about the urban crisis. At one time Johnson would seize the opportunity of a flood to chopper in and show the beleaguered citizens that their President was with them. Instead of being seen on the ghetto battlegrounds this summer, he has repeatedly posed for pictures chin-chucking and nose-nuzzling his infant grandson...
...Chopper Armor. As protection against shrapnel, which inflicts 80% of all wartime wounds, U.S. troops now wear 10-lb. nylon felt vests. Davis claims that his 8-lb., all-nylon version wards off not only shrapnel, but also direct hits from small arms up to .38 caliber...
...choppers go up on each mission-one carrying two Starlight snipers or spotters and the other loaded with rockets or miniguns. "We'll get an intelligence report that the Cong are likely to bring some goods down one of their supply routes," says the 1st Infantry Division's Sergeant Leonard Knipe. "So we go after them, zipping up and down the trail with our lights off, both scope men studying every inch of ground below us, as though it were day. As soon as we see something, the lead chopper informs the other ship, we wheel around...
...recent typical night-hunter run for the 1st Infantry Division, the lead chopper spotted a small group of Viet Cong on a heavily wooded hillside in Binh Dinh province, halfway down the coast of South Viet Nam. Before the V.C. could flee, it unleashed a stream of yellow and red tracer shells into their midst. A moment later, the second chopper, zeroing in on the tracers, sent a deadly volley of rockets thundering into the same spot...