Word: marinese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In a combined American-Vietnamese sweep called Coronado II, four battalions from the 9th and 25th Divisions were helilifted into the area; two others swarmed ashore from river as sault boats. The Americans' job was to link up with ten South Vietnamese battalions to make a 250-sq.-mi...
With the proper training and planning, however, some police departments have shown that they can be an effective force against all but the biggest riots-especially in the early stages. New York's 690-man Tactical Patrol Force, created in 1959 to deal with Negro and Puerto Rican youth...
The regular army is now spread through the country's four corps areas in ten infantry divisions, an armored division, an airborne division and 20 elite, red-bereted ranger battalions. Though more and more units are being assigned as shields for pacification efforts, government troops are still out hunting...
60,000 Garbage Cans. Just after midnight, the rockets began falling on Danang from the hills northwest and southwest of the base, the citadel of the U.S. Marines in Viet Nam and a major launching pad for the air war on the Communist North. In scarcely more than five minutes...
The North Vietnamese are also using ambushes, in conjunction with skillful conventional artillery fire, on the plain just below the DMZ. After digging in with their guns, they lie in wait for the Marines they know must eventually come to try to root them out; that is how the leathernecks...