Word: regiment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...desk commander, the Chief of Staff has made three trips to Viet Nam, plans to return there to share Christmas dinner with men of the 8th Cavalry Regiment, the outfit he commanded in Korea. "What we are doing there," he says, "is fighting an island campaign on a land mass." Last week Johnson boarded his JetStar for a one-day visit to the Army's biggest training center, Fort Jackson, in the piney uplands of South Carolina, where 19,655 men are being taught to fight...
Hunting the Hunters. It wasn't that easy for Specialist Fifth Class Daniel Torres, 25, of Corpus Christi, Texas. A medic with Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Regiment of the Air Cav, Torres was standing by when a radioed cry for help came in from another company that had just been ambushed and decimated. Torres volunteered to go out with a rescue patrol, grabbed seven litters from MEDEVAC helicopters, and moved out. About 11 p.m. they found the wounded-some 45 men huddled around a giant anthill. On litters and on foot, 18 wounded got back. Torres searched...
Toes & Barbed Wire. Up the coast at Thach Tru some 320 miles northeast of Saigon, a battalion of South Vietnamese Rangers (backed by a company of Popular Forces) made a gutty stand even without loudspeakers. Hit by a full Viet Cong regiment, the Rangers threw back three concerted assaults that left their wire festooned with Red bodies. The V.C. timed their attacks to coincide with lulls in U.S. air support, but they reckoned without the 5-in. guns of the U.S. Navy. Into range at flank speed loped the U.S. destroyer O'Brien, spitting rapid-fire salvos from...
Some 70 miles to the south, the Reds mounted another regiment-size assault -this time on the district capital of Tuy An. A relief force hit the traditional Communist ambush but backed away quickly to let "Puff the Magic Dragon" take charge. One of the squadron of slow-circling C-47 transports converted by the U.S. Air Force, the plane harassed the Reds with its three General Electric-built "Miniguns"-six-barreled super Catlings that can deliver up to 6,000 rounds of 7.62 mm. slugs a minute. Flying in increasingly widening circles, one Puff can slash a swatch...
...told, since the siege at Plei Me first began, the enemy suffered 1,769 dead. Some 140 were captured, as were 903 individual and 110 larger weapons -almost enough armament to equip a regiment. That was evidence enough of the fresh influx of North Vietnamese troops that U.S. intelligence had long anticipated once the rainy season ended. Where the infiltration rate down the Ho Chi Minh trail was once 1,000 a month, it is now probably running 2,500, bringing, to date, seven, possibly eight North Vietnamese regiments into South Viet...