Word: phan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hard to find more gung-ho outfits anywhere than four Air Guard squadrons mobilized straight into combat in Viet Nam. "Nobody's got a bitch about being here," claims Captain Thomas Risan, an airline pilot now bombing and strafing Viet Cong fortifications with the 120th Tactical Fighter Squadron at Phan Rang. Calling themselves the "Raggedy-Ass Militia of Happy Valley," the 25 pilots and 350 maintenance crewmen of the 120th TFS have racked up more than 1,000 missions since reaching Viet Nam early in May. "What we got was real pros," says a regular chicken colonel at Phan Rang...
Boredom prompts men to take pride in goldbricking, inducing added ennui. Even the crack 120th TFS at Phan Rang has an accountant and a graduate in English slinging hash, a school principal pulling security guard, and a Denver assistant district attorney slaving as a clerk in the base legal office...
...main posts. Senator Tran Chanh Tranh, a diplomat and political independent who is not close to either Thieu or Ky, became Foreign Minister. Four-star General Tran Thien Khiem, an ally of President Thieu and presently Ambassador to Taiwan, was named Interior Minister. Dr. Phan Quang Dan, a vice-presidential candidate who ran against the Thieu-Ky military ticket in the September elections, got the ministry dealing with defectors. Huong kept for himself the Rural Development Ministry, responsible for pacification. "The life and death of this country depend on this government," the Premier declared at the Cabinet installation. "We will...
When a Viet Cong squad entrenched itself around the Phan Thanh Gian Bridge, South Vietnamese Police Chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan grew impatient at South Vietnamese navy and marine troops trying to knock them out, came to the bridge to take personal command of the assault. It nearly cost him his life. After firing several bursts from his AR-15 at the enemy, he himself was hit in the thigh and leg. An American MP floated Loan down the river under the protection of the floor boards of the docks and stilt-houses until he could be safely evacuated. Loan...
...increasingly coming around to the view that Tet, in the long run, had proved to be a disaster to the Communists, costing them 42,000 men, by U.S. estimate, rallying many South Vietnamese to fresh efforts, and resulting in "no enemy flags in our cities," as Constituent Assemblyman Dr. Phan Quang Dan said last week during a U.S. tour. Similarly, U.S. Army Chief of Staff General Harold K. Johnson maintained that the U.S. "suffered a smashing, catastrophic psychological defeat" as a result of Tet?but only because it was "a defeat which we imposed on ourselves...