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...faculty at Wolters and Rucker consists increasingly of gung-ho Viet Nam veterans who imbue their students with the sense of mission that marks their units in the war zone. "The heli copter has done a great job," one gunship pilot tells his students. "If the chopper hadn't been in Viet Nam, that place would have been long gone by now." The close-cropped heads of warrant officer candidates nod enthusiastically. Says Major General John Tolson, commander of the Army Aviation Center: "They don't seem to find what they want in college. They just want...
Four of a Kind. As the world's most mobile division, nothing like the First Team has ever existed in the history of warfare. Some 3,000 of its men are trained paratroopers, and the rest are expert in heli-assault landings. Its 428 helicopters have doubled the total number of choppers in use in Viet Nam. They range from scores of workaday Hueys to 48 Chinook transport copters with a lift capacity of some 13,000 Ibs., the first to arrive in Viet Nam. Four of the First's helicopters are the only ones of their breed...
...tide completely in the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu, 100 miles to the southwest. In a sharply executed "search-and-destroy" operation, U.S. and South Vietnamese planes spotted a concentration of some 600 Viet Cong in a dried-out paddyfield, then pinned them down while government troops were heli-lifted in. Surrounded on three sides, lashed by rockets and napalm, the Communists finally broke and ran. "It was like shooting fish in a barrel," said one U.S. adviser...
...single concession to TV, the chatter is usually preceded by a Gibson-wrought gimmick: Gibson sliding onto the set in a Mercedes-Benz, riding a horse across stage, standing in a snowstorm outside flinging snowballs, or giving heli copter lessons from a whirlybird hovering above the station parking...
...this writer's lot to sit beside the correspondent of a leading news agency last night and heli speed to Mr. Welles the telephonic information that the Ambassador's house had fallen down i. e. that negotiations for President Grau's resignation had failed]. Mr. Welles's reaction, on learning what had happened, was a request that the informant please telephone the news to the writer he had first named to spread tidings...