Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GERALD NECAISE, 20, of New Orleans, is a squad leader in the 8,400-man 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade, most of which is assigned to help protect the Danang airfield. The marines are perhaps the most frustrated outfit in South Viet Nam: eager for battle, they are restricted to patrolling the Danang perimeter, and so far they have not been blooded. Last week, returning from an uneventful patrol, Necaise expressed his impatience. "Look at it this way," he said. "If you're in the engineers, you train to build roads and you get a chance to build roads...
Grainger was captured by a Viet Cong patrol last August. He was shot and killed in January. Only last week, after a laborious compilation of the evidence, were U.S. officials able to recount the last, desperate days of a lone American in an unforgiving land...
...groups of four; while one flight attacked, the others circled the area, their speed cut by the weight of their armament-eight 750-lb. bombs and 2,000 lbs. of cannon shells in each aircraft. High above and to the north, F-100 Super Sabre jets flew combat air patrol. Their mission: to forewarn of the approach of enemy aircraft and if possible to intercept. The Super Sabres' radar attention was directed mostly toward the north, where Hanoi's jet airfields are located (the Donghoi airfield, to the south, had been knocked out by U.S. bombing...
Encounter No. 2. The MIGs obviously had been directed by ground-control radar, probably from three stations that had the U.S. flights perfectly triangulated. The airborne radar in the F-100 patrol planes plainly did not offer equivalent, skywide coverage-but the U.S. has plenty of radar planes that do, and they presumably will be brought into use in the very near future...
Toward week's end, U.S. jets again clashed with MIGs, and again suffered a loss. Four Navy F-4 Phantoms from the carriers Coral Sea and Ranger were flying patrol about 35 miles from the Communist Chinese island of Hainan...