Word: marinese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Recently in Phu Bai a Navy doctor paused in the midst of treating a long line of village children to wipe his brow and expostulated: "Dammit, if we could just get these people to wash their kids off with soap and water, half of the cases we're treating...
Meanwhile the marines, day in and day out, in methodical, grinding patrols against the Viet Cong, are killing an average 40 Viet Cong a week-at roughly the cost of one marine dead and five wounded a day. Typical was a night's work last week. After dusk a...
The marines at Chu Lai are accustomed to the roar over their tents on the steaming dunes. Less easy to take has been the choking dust, now damped down by the first northern monsoons, and the fact that the nearest liberty is the Marine headquarters town of Danang. "That'...
From Defense to Offense. The U.S. military has been in Viet Nam in an advisory role to government forces ever since the French were swept out in 1954 -a role that grew with the swelling magnitude of the Viet Cong threat until eventually it required 24,000 men. But it...
U.S. troops were soon besting the Viet Cong in fire fights from Chu Lai to An Khe. The 34,000 marines in Viet Nam boast a 5-1 kill ratio over the enemy, have spread their original beachhead until now they control 400 sq. mi. of territory. When a bad...