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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...
...Bridge Is a Bridge." To meet the demands of the war and the Corps of Engineers' own manpower shortage, an engineers' training regiment, inactive since Korea, has been reactivated at Fort Belvoir, Va. The first class of 60 men started training last month, will be joined by a new group every other week until the regiment reaches an operating strength of 1,200 men. Courses at Belvoir are specifically Viet Nam-oriented, with heavy stress on such skills as reinforced-concrete bridge design and construction, maintenance of equipment-not to mention combat and survival...
...rarely involved more than a regiment on each side...
...Navy Lieut. Commander Richard Escajeda, head surgeon of the marines' "Charlie Med" hospital at Danang. "The sterilized linen never dries. Bugs crawl into our surgical packs. Mud is everywhere." An earthier-or muddier-protest came from a jungle-hardened trooper in the 1st Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment, bivouacked with the U.S. 173rd Airborne Brigade. "Ya know, I been here for six weeks, and for five of 'em I've never been dry," he lamented. "If a man ain't wet with sweat, he's drenched with rain. Me clothes are rottin...