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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...
About 33,000 U.S. Army and Marine Corps men are serving as ground troops in South Viet Nam. The Marines want to increase their 8,000-man force at Danang and Hue to some 30,000, and they are likely to get their wish before the year is out. Also available and being considered for use in Viet Nam is the Army's 25th Division, now in Hawaii...
...past, marines in South Viet Nam have been limited to perimeter defense of the big airbases at Danang and Hué; they have been drastically restricted in seeking out the enemy. But last week they were told to start "aggressive reconnaissance patrolling." They did just that, and within a few hours, one Marine patrol sought out a Viet Cong unit in a hamlet nine miles outside of Danang, engaged in a 30-minute fire fight, and sent the Communists scurrying...
...Chunk of Junk. As three battalions of South Vietnamese infantry pushed toward Viet An, an outpost 31 miles south of Danang, they passed a sign erected by the Communist Viet Cong. It read: "A 250,000-man French expeditionary corps came this way and was destroyed. Don't let it happen to you." They didn't. Though wave upon wave of U.S. fighter-bombers swept in before the attack with bombs and rockets, the weather turned bad for air support when the assault actually began. By midday, the attack force had reached the Viet Cong's main...
...critical moments in Viet An, troops so weary could hardly be expected to perform with skill in the grinding day-in-day-out war. The only sure cure for battle fatigue is a transfusion of well-rested, eager combat troops like the 6,800 U.S. marines currently patrolling Danang airbase. Though the marines last week were finally blooded in their first real firefight with the Communists, they have yet to tangle with Viet Cong main force...