Word: regiment
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...constituent assembly to decide. But, personally, I would like to see all the generals back with their units as soon as possible. The army is not being used in full strength now against the Communists. Rather it is being exploited for political purposes. An example is the regiment of the Seventh Division that is now in Saigon. I suppose its primary mission is to check on demonstrations, but it must have other missions. For example, there are many rumors that Ky intends to put Thieu out of power, or that Thieu intends to put Ky out of power...
...Conduct of the 8th Co. of the 29th Regiment...
...36th. Appropriately enough, the most spectacular one last week belonged to the marines, who celebrated the anniversary of their arrival by virtually destroying the North Vietnamese 36th Regiment. The marines had been hunting the 36th for nearly three months when the Red command post was finally pinpointed between Chu Lai and Quang Ngai. Four battalions of marines and four of Vietnamese government troops closed with the 36th in Operation Utah, a three-day battle that gave the marines their toughest fighting in a year of war. The 36th was well disciplined and well armed with the new Chinese Communist...
Wrung Necks. Napoleon was a maniac for detail, and one of the first of the Organization Men. He demanded and got a running record of every regiment, including a summary of its encounters, its numerical strength, the roll of its injured and sick and the number of its annual recruitment. He commanded an elaborate network of spies who informed him minutely of the strength and movements of his adversaries. He centralized authority absolutely in himself, and his precise, ingeniously correlated orders of march gained a maneuverability for his army that was far in excess of that enjoyed by any other...
...result, some 1,500 villagers who do not want to wait for the return of the Communists have already been escorted out of the valley. The marines were soon off hunting anew, as helicopters poured thousands of leathernecks into Phuoc Valley in search of the Viet Cong 1st Regiment. Directly to the south, Operation White Wing, which so far has accounted for nearly 1,500 Communists killed, continued in smaller-scale, company-size operations by the 1st Air Cav. Though Double Eagle and White Wing failed to make contact with the four Communist regiments operating in Binh Dinh...