Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Passing two highway patrol cars that had stopped a Volkswagen bus, Thomas slowed, then sped up. When Rowe argued again for turning back, Thomas replied, "I done told you, Baby Brother, you're in the big time now. We're gonna take that automobile...
Aggressive Patrolling. The U.S. also will expand naval surveillance over Communist junks, which have become a major means of sneaking men and materiel into South Viet Nam. U.S. intelligence experts estimate that the Reds are presently using some 72,000 junks for this purpose. The U.S. will not only supply Saigon with swift new patrol boats, but will also order its own warships to track "suspicious" vessels...
...past, marines in South Viet Nam have been limited to perimeter defense of the big airbases at Danang and Hué; they have been drastically restricted in seeking out the enemy. But last week they were told to start "aggressive reconnaissance patrolling." They did just that, and within a few hours, one Marine patrol sought out a Viet Cong unit in a hamlet nine miles outside of Danang, engaged in a 30-minute fire fight, and sent the Communists scurrying...
Ranging out from Danang airbase, Marine patrols had a series of run-ins with the Communists that ended nominally in victory but actually in absurdity. One contingent bumped up against a Viet Cong patrol and caught a burst of machine-gun fire. A private was hit five times, but the bullets were spent, and he limped off to a helicopter for evacuation. Another marine caught a slug right up the barrel of his M-14 rifle-a one-in-a-million shot that burst his weapon and gashed his face. Yet another private stepped into the gaping steel jaws...
...brakes, tried to turn the truck around. But blinded by his own blood, he backed up instead into a roadside canal. He and his companions broke free from the truck and swam to the far bank of the canal, only to fall into the hands of another Viet Cong patrol...