Word: danang
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meeting with them seven or eight times a week, usually in his oval office or his private quarters. Sometimes the setting is the presidential retreat at Camp David on Maryland's Catoctin Mountain, where he adjourned with all three last March after deciding to send U.S. marines to Danang. He often sees individual members of the group three or four times a day, is in touch with one or another of them almost hourly. Last week he had only two formal meetings with them, but the formal meetings are just the top of the iceberg...
Last week Rogers was in action with his Vietnamese unit near Danang. But he will soon be going home to Sumneytown, Pa., and he will be sorry to leave. "These Vietnamese are brave people," he says. "You go out on operation and - well - maybe things aren't done quite the way you want them to be. But then, in the middle of a battle, one of these little characters comes grinning up to you and hands you a hot cup of coffee...
CORPORAL GERALD NECAISE, 20, of New Orleans, is a squad leader in the 8,400-man 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade, most of which is assigned to help protect the Danang airfield. The marines are perhaps the most frustrated outfit in South Viet Nam: eager for battle, they are restricted to patrolling the Danang perimeter, and so far they have not been blooded. Last week, returning from an uneventful patrol, Necaise expressed his impatience. "Look at it this way," he said. "If you're in the engineers, you train to build roads and you get a chance to build roads...
...marines spend much of their time filling sandbags for bunkers. The heat is oppressive, the mosquitoes abundant. The only place to go on liberty is Danang, a dreary city with a 10 p.m. curfew and varieties of venereal disease for which U.S. medical science has not yet come up with a cure...
...perfectly willing to lie low for a while until U.S. patience wears thin and they can again set out to topple the Saigon government. Meanwhile, there was still the chance that Viet Cong regiments -backed by North Vietnamese army units-might mount a concerted attack on the airbase at Danang, hoping to recoup the prestige lost in recent defeats and even perhaps to "hurl the Americans into...