Word: danang
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Abruptly, the ground rules had changed. Some 3,500 combat marines from Okinawa landed to secure Danang Airbase. Advance units of the 173rd Airborne also streamed in. One of the most significant U.S. moves was to assign U.S. planes to bomb and strafe Viet Cong units in South Viet Nam itself...
...nowadays is more likely to head for the Quai d'Orsay than the Folies-Bergère. In 1965 more than 100 Senators and Congressmen-roughly one-fifth of the combined membership-will have traveled outside the country, ranging round the globe from Warsaw to Wellington, Delhi to Danang...
...statistics of survival testify to the operation's success. In World War I, the fatality rate was 5.5% of the wounded; in World War II, 3.3%; in Korea, 2.7%. In Viet Nam, estimates Commander Almon C. Wilson, head of the 3rd Medical Battalion at Danang, it is below...
Vital Sorting. Though the Marine Corps has no separate medical service, and depends on the Navy's, it has the 3rd Medical Battalion, comprising four companies. At Danang is Company C, or "Charlie Med" to the gyrenes. "Back last summer," says Lieut. Commander Richard M. Escajeda, 36, chief surgeon and commander of Charlie Med, "we used to classify eight casualties as a mass casualty event. Then we rang a big metal ring-like a country fire alarm-and everybody reported to his station. Now things have changed so, we have to get 20 patients at once before we consider...
...There was no triage problem in the case of Marine Colonel Michael R. Yunck, 47. As operations officer of the First Marine Air Wing, Yunck had helped to plan Operation Harvest Moon; later he went out in a four-man armed "Huey" helicopter, directing fighter-bomber attacks south of Danang. He was about to call in a strike on a tiny, nameless hamlet when he looked down. His chopper was low enough for him to see women and children. It was also low enough for a Viet Cong machine gunner to sight in on the Huey. "I knew I couldn...