Word: medevac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mobile Riverine's speedier patrol boats, whose missions are to inspect sampans for smuggled arms and materiel and attack suspected Viet Cong strongholds. The little flattops serve as refueling depots for support helicopters and as supply ships. But their most important duty is to serve as floating Medevac stations for the attack ships...
...paddy-and-palmetto plains between the Nuoc Trong and Cai Lon rivers. Four "slicks" (troop-carrying choppers) were shot out of the sky by Chinese-built 7.9-mm. antiaircraft cannons; another four "gunships" (helicopters carrying rockets and machine guns for close support) dropped like stones. Moments later, a Medevac chopper was downed-the ninth helicopter to fall in as many minutes. Pinned down behind low paddyfield dikes, the South Vietnamese called for air strikes. U.S. and Vietnamese fighter-bombers thundered in from as far away as Cam Ranh Bay to lay bombs, napalm and cannon fire within...
Steady Surveillance. Viet Cong guerrillas fired on two separate units of American paratroopers patrolling northeast of Saigon, then poured bullets into the MEDEVAC helicopter that swooped in to pick up the wounded-but failed to bring it down. Individual Red riflemen took potshots at passing choppers and reconnaissance planes throughout South Viet Nam, or chucked hand grenades at Allied positions...
Snakes & Lanterns. Fighter-bombers seared both hills with flaming napalm, then returned with rockets, heavy fragmentation bombs and machine gun fire. For three days, the Reds on Hill 400 hit back with mortar and small-arms fire so intense that Medevac helicopters could not land to take out Marine wounded. Finally, Marine pilots used 1,000-lb. bombs to blast craters deep enough to provide cover for the choppers, and a few critical cases were evacuated. Then the Marines moved out, stormed the hill with satchel charges,* and blasted the Reds out of their holes. They found a Communist regimental...
...Texas. A medic with Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Regiment of the Air Cav, Torres was standing by when a radioed cry for help came in from another company that had just been ambushed and decimated. Torres volunteered to go out with a rescue patrol, grabbed seven litters from MEDEVAC helicopters, and moved out. About 11 p.m. they found the wounded-some 45 men huddled around a giant anthill. On litters and on foot, 18 wounded got back. Torres searched out more wounded, then stayed on with them, using up all of his own morphine and bandages, then taking more...