Word: gio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...northwest corner of Leatherneck Square, Con Thien is well covered by U.S. guns. Approximately seven miles south of it lies Cam Lo at the southwest corner of the square. About the same distance east lies Gio Linh, at the northeast corner, with Dong Ha to its south. All four outposts, in addition to others farther south, notably Camp Carroll, can provide artillery support for one another or reinforcements if necessary...
...call up the reserves and step up draft calls. Otherwise, the present force is likely to remain stable. To ease pressure on the Marines at the DMZ, the U.S. could stage an Inchon-style landing north of the 17th parallel, silence the guns that are raking Con Thien and Gio Linh, and pull out again. And, as the Joint Chiefs unanimously recommend, bombers could mine Haiphong harbor-a proposal that has consistently been rejected by Johnson, Mc-Namara and Dean Rusk. Were Haiphong choked off, argues Joint Chief Chairman General Earle Wheeler, most of the $1-billion-a-year flow...
...artillery. "We usually get a few rounds in the early morning as a sort of reveille," says Gio Linh Camp Commander Major Richard Froncek. "Then we will get a few rounds at noon and then more at sunset." The North Vietnamese seldom shell at night, presumably because they do not want to give away their positions with muzzle flashes. Much of the life of the 480 men manning Gio Linh is lived below ground in heavily sandbagged bunkers supported by thick wooden beams that can take all but a direct hit. In summer, when the temperature reaches...
...followed quickly by the final sharp bang of its explosion on impact. The whole process takes about eight seconds, giving the Marines time to dive for cover, though the North Vietnamese have an ominous new gun of unknown make that gives only a one-second warning. The men of Gio Linh have developed acute ears for descending shells, but the alert is usually given first by Hardcore, their pet Vietnamese mongrel dog. When Hardcore starts whining and heading for cover, the entire camp follows...
...overrun." Not far away stands a siren that is no joke. Should the base ever be overrun, it will scream a signal to everyone to burrow deep down inside their bunkers. Then all the other U.S. artillery bases within range will wheel their guns around to fire on Gio Linh itself in an attempt to blast the North Vietnamese right off the backs of the defenders...