Word: paratrooper
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...that the army would never fire on students or coerce striking workers into resuming production. But, they added, in the event that the Communists made a determined effort to overthrow the regime through street fighting and guerrilla warfare, the army was prepared to intervene with its elite tank and paratroop units. That was all De Gaulle needed to know...
Finally, just before 8 a.m., Pfc. Paul Healey, 20, led a counterattack through the front gate, personally killing five V.C. with grenades and his M-16 rifle. Minutes later, two paratroop platoons from the 101st Airborne Division at nearby Bien Hoa landed on the embassy's rooftop helipad. Working their way down, they met no resistance. Though V.C. prisoners are usually turned over to the Saigon government, this time the troopers had orders to kill every V.C. in sight, lest any had seen secret codes or plans in the embassy...
...years ago: I was looking for adventure and I felt I couldn't really study until I'd gotten it out of my system." Carolina and eight months of ad-After eight weeks of basic in South vanced infantry training in Louisiana, Sloan volunteered for paratroop training because the pay was good and it was the fastest way to Vietnam. "It was still Kennedy's war then," Sloane reminisces, "and I believed it when they told me that we were fighting to save the parliamentary democracy of the South from the dictatorship of the North...
...high school which serves three other settlements in the region. But only the 19 year-old has matriculated for university admission, and he probably won't go. A farmer does not need four expensive years of college. The oldest, tall dark and vigorous, is a member of an elite paratroop reconaissance unit which took high casualties during the war. He has already moved with his wife and child to another kibbutz...
...There I was, mushing around in the Central Highlands counting Viet Cong dead," said the paratroop captain. "I was the grubbiest man alive. Bad. Really bad. After two days of no sleep I went back to camp and sacked out on an air mattress in the mud." Then came a voice telling him to get up and go to Saigon to take care of Miss America. Not bad for a dream. Even better as the real McCoy. So U.S. Army Captain Frank Lennon, 25, a West Pointer and a gentleman, scraped off the mud and flew to Saigon...