Word: troop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strikes against North Viet Nam, the President insists on the final word on targets, tonnage and timing. He frets over details, asking for information about a specific Viet Cong stronghold and insisting that he be informed of every U.S. troop movement. He sleeps fitfully at night when he knows that U.S. pilots are on their way against the enemy. He often arises in the small hours of the morning to check the White House situation room for cables about rescue operations and about troop casualty lists from Saigon. He stalks through the White House corridors, longingly paraphrasing to aides...
...SIZE OF THE U.S. TROOP COMMITMENT IN VIET NAM. That it would be increased was taken for granted. Indeed, even before McNamara, Lodge and Wheeler left for Viet Nam, Johnson had told associates that troop increases "of substantial proportions" would be required. Still open to question was just how many men might be needed and, outside the Cabinet Room, guesses AP ranged from 150,000 to 250,000 by the end of this year...
...South Viet Nam, including a contingent of some 3,900 troops of the historic 1st Infantry Division ("the Big Red One") that landed last week. On the way from Fort Campbell, Ky., was a 4,000-man brigade of the 101st Airborne Division. Also ticketed for Viet Nam is the Army's recently created 1st Cavalry Air Mobile Division now in training at Fort Benning, Ga. By the end of this year, the U.S. will almost certainly have nearly 200,000 men in Viet Nam, and if the Communists insist on stepping up their own effort, the U.S. troop...
...Troop Totals. Korea: 500 U.S. military advisers present at start, building up to a peak of 400,000 troops; some 1,250,000 Americans served in all, counting replacements. Viet Nam: a 685-man advisory mission in 1961, expanded to 72,000 servicemen as of last week with prospects that the number will rise to nearly 200,000 by year's end; so far, an estimated 200,000 Americans have served...
...through with the likker. So 40 wagonloads of champagne and whisky go lumbering across the plains on a collision course with a band of footsore Denver vigilantes determined to protect the booze, a tribe of thirsty Sioux Indians who want to drink it, and a U.S. Cavalry troop led by Captain Jim Hutton set on heading off the Sioux. Meanwhile, a temperance-minded suffragette (Lee Remick) fields her lady crusaders and Colonel Burt Lancaster must deploy more horse soldiers to keep the girls out of trouble...