Word: delta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...give ARVN enough time, it probably can solve its problems-lack of confidence, getting enough experienced NCOs and junior officers and sufficient equipment. Whatever indications we have are encouraging. Still, we can't be sure unless there is a more definitive test. It might come in the Mekong Delta...
...four months of action off the Vietnam coast. In August through November, 1968, Kerry was trained to be the skipper of a patrol boat for Vietnamese rivers. For the next five months, until April of 1969, Kerry was the commanding Lieutenant of a patrol boat in the Mekong Delta. He was wounded slightly on three different occasions and received a Silver Star for bravery. His patrol boat took part in Operation Sealords, mostly scouting out Viet Cong villages and transporting South Vietnamese marines to various destinations up and down narrow rivers covered with heavy foliage on either side. One time...
...years ago, during the Communists' Tet offensive of 1968, Viet Cong regulars overran the tiny hamlet of Huu Thanh in the Mekong Delta and destroyed nearly every building. Last week, as South Viet Nam celebrated the arrival of the Year of the Dog, government flags flew from every home and the town was almost completely rebuilt. In Hue, nearly wrecked by savage street fighting two years ago, crowds flocked to the reconstructed market, buying New Year gifts for their families from the 2,000-odd vendors. Pretty Saigon girls in ao dais posed for their boy friends' cameras...
...that is. All leaves were canceled. Outside Saigon, South Vietnamese armor stood guard. In Hue, flak-jacketed ARVN Rangers carrying M-16s mingled with the holiday crowds. Memories of the 1968 holocaust were very much on the military's mind, but there was optimism as well. In the delta's lush Ba Xuyen province, a district chief discounted chances of a VC attack: "We've driven them out and I think they know better than to return." Earlier in the week, the enemy had mounted a minioffensive: 70 cities and bases were shelled or mortared one night...
Late in the week, as the 24-hour Tet cease-fire ended, there were reports of increased battlefield action, mostly in the Mekong Delta and in the north, near the Demilitarized Zone. The fighting was on a small scale, but no one in South Viet Nam was forgetting that shortly after the cease-fire expired last year, the enemy launched an offensive that lasted for 36 days...