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...city limits. None of which bothers Fretwell. He and his partner have even gone out on other snake hunts and brought back about 100 rattlers to protect their business acquaintances. As a matter of fact, says Fretwell, "I heard about a fellow who's tinkering with a cobra." Presumably, Dallas burglars should now pack a concealed mongoose instead...
...mines and ambushes have upset plans to supply the main ARVN column (10,000 men) on Route 9 by road. In combat, ARVN commanders have often been unable to spell out their needs in comprehensible English when faced with real trouble. Hill 31 was overrun largely because the first Cobra gunships on the scene carried no armor-piercing rockets: the ARVN officer who radioed for support forgot to mention that 20 snarling Communist tanks were churning up to his defense perimeter...
...accompanied Sudanese army units in a raid on the main guerrilla camp, Owing-ki-bul (an Acholi war cry that means "Hear the drums sounding"), attacking the southerners by surprise while many were bathing in a river. The rebel Anyanya (who took their name from the poison of a cobra or scorpion) lost a dozen men and considerable equipment. A bombing raid against a rebel base at Morta near the Uganda border caused nearly 1,000 civilian casualties...
...year-old war in Indochina ushered in the Age of the Chopper, and the allied thrust into Laos last week vividly demonstrated why. The whirr of helicopter rotors accompanied the vast operation at every stage: airborne Cobra gunships softened up, or "prepped," landing sites with machine-gun and rocket fire; workhorse Hueys lifted entire battalions of South Vietnamese troops into enemy territory and evacuated the wounded; giant Chinooks supplied ground forces with everything from medicines to cannon. During a single day of the offensive, U.S. helicopters flew 1,100 sorties into Laos. Yet even as the wondercraft...
...Army realized the necessity for rapid mobility in a guerrilla war, commanders began urging Washington to free them from what they called "the tyranny of the terrain." There are now 3,500 helicopters, worth nearly $1 billion, in Viet Nam. With the arrival of the high-speed, heavily armed Cobra in 1967, the ships became flying combat-assault platforms for entire brigades in mass lift operations. More than any other weapon, they enabled the U.S. to fight the guerrillas' kind...