Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bloody fight with government troops and civil guards. In the Mekong Delta region, a Communist band stormed the military outpost of Minh Duc, inflicting "heavy" losses on the defenders. Only 18 miles from President Ngo Dinh Diem's capital of Saigon, a U.S. military adviser on a training patrol with Vietnamese Rangers was wounded by a Viet Cong sniper. In the jungle north of the capital, a 500-man paratroop battalion was ambushed at the end of a three-hour forced march by 1,000 Communists armed with Soviet weapons. At a cost of 20 dead and "numerous" wounded...
...Taps After 12. The Bowmans felt themselves totally alone. They made 104 calls to the police, but the cops seemed apathetic; sometimes they sent a patrol car, sometimes not. The precinct captain told the Bowmans that the police could do nothing, advised them to hire a private detective-and recommended a friend at $75 a day. Bowman's insurance agent canceled his policies...
...Algerians. As a countermeasure the government clamped a 7 p.m. curfew on the Algerian cafes, where F.L.N. leaders hang out. Algerians also were "strongly advised" to be off the streets by 8:30-and soon found that police, with newly issued bulletproof vests and three-foot staves for patrol duty, wasted no time repeating the advice to those who ignored the curfew. Algerians, who theoretically enjoy the same civil rights as Frenchmen, protested that they were subjected to a form of apartheid as virulent as South Africa's-and seizing on that mood, the F.L.N. organized the protest marches...
Sharpened Knives. Around the world, other Army units are on the picket line. G.I.s muffled in cold-weather gear patrol the white wastes of the Arctic. In the jungles of South Viet Nam, guerrilla-fighting experts of the Army's newly formed Special Forces teach villagers how to fire the Mi, then lead them on forays against the Communist raiders that are filtering across the border in increasing numbers. In Hawaii, the 25th Infantry Division is trained in the stealthy art of jungle warfare. During maneuvers, men of the 25th drill on techniques of getting along with native tribes...
...then all at once, the boredom is gone and the "hostiles" are there. They pounce on an isolated homestead, kill the men, rape and kill the women. The captain sends out a patrol commanded by a youthful officer who has just seen the elegant lieutenant, merely for the hell of it, steal his girl. With all the suption gone out of him, he blunders when he bivouacs and his troop is wiped...