Word: rangers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first time that the troops of the three South Vietnamese Ranger companies assigned to clear out the area had been flown into action. Moving at treetop level, choppers from the U.S. Army's 57th Helicopter Co., which since last December has flown some 45,000 troops on 6,300 sorties, ferried the Rangers and six U.S. observers to the strike zone. There was no cover but no enemy fire either as the Rangers jumped from the hovering helicopters into the knee-deep black mud of the paddy fields...
Swimming Lesson. As the hunt for prisoners continued, the Rangers found two Viet Cong youths, 15 and 19, hiding in a canal. The elder carried a packet of Communist songbooks and a picture of North Viet Nam's Red Leader Ho Chi Minh. The Rangers were in no mood for a kid-glove interrogation of the prisoners; only last spring a Ranger camp had been sacked by the Viet Cong and a number of Ranger wives and children killed. The older boy was pinned to the ground and -as the Rangers call it-"taken for a swim...
...last it was time to move out. One Ranger began to twang out a tune on a captured Viet Cong guitar, and a companion did a twistlike jig, holding onto the bipod of his automatic rifle like a boy dancing with a broomstick. The bag for the day had been seven Viet Cong killed, eight prisoners, 53 suspect villagers arrested, seven rifles, more than 100 rounds of ammunition-and one guitar...
...Major Philip Harper, 37, adviser to a Vietnamese Ranger battalion. Father: Brigadier General fret.) Neal Harper, formerly deputy chief of the Army Dental Corps...
...Captain Craig Spence, 29, artillery officer to a Vietnamese Ranger camp. Father: Brigadier General (ret.) William Spence, a World War II artillery officer in the Philippines...