Word: troop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Into the Valley of Death last week flew the 800. They were South Vietnamese troops being lifted by a company of U.S. H21 troop-carrying helicopters to clean out a Communist-infested jungle hideout 175 miles northeast of Saigon. The region was a tangled, menacing battleground, whose name, like Tennyson's Balaclava, derives from its bloody history in South Viet Nam's ugly guerrilla war. As each flight dipped into the tiny landing zone, an escort of twelve rocket-carrying UH 1-B ("Huey") choppers sprayed the scrubby underbrush with rockets and machine-gun fire. Not a single...
...airlift campaign, which had been the most effective offensive tactic against the Red guerrillas. Reluctantly the top U.S. military brass, which had long been skeptical that a helicopter could ever be a deadly offensive weapon, threw the newly-arrived Hueys into combat. Their mission: to escort and protect the troop-carrying copters...
...official military designation is Utility Tactical Transport Company) have been killed in combat, and 19 other members of the 113-man unit have been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. Today U.S. military officials estimate that, although the Viet Cong has doubled its antiaircraft effort in the past year, the troop-carrying choppers are suffering 25% fewer hits than before the Hueys arrived on the Viet Nam scene. "The Hueys," says General Paul Harkins, the capable boss of the 14,000 U.S. advisers in South Viet Nam, "are the most essential unit in my command...
...Imperial arsenal blows up, the gates of the great Tartar Wall being stormed by Boxers in scarlet turbans-are almost as good as the evocative paintings by Water-colorist Dong Kingman, which open and close the picture. It was doubtless ghastly to wait 55 days at Peking until a troop of international reinforcements arrived, and the moviegoer who goes through the whole siege in two hours and 30 minutes comes out feeling lucky...
...Navy. As versatile as any are the Navy's SEALS, who must be underwater demolition experts, parachutists, land survival specialists and, after a fashion, submariners. Two mothballed troop-carrying subs have been reactivated for use by SEALS, who are skilled at making landings from them. The SEALS are trained, for example, to parachute behind enemy lines to locate downed flyers, lead them to the coast, then hustle them aboard a recovery sub. Based at Little Creek, Va., and Coronado, Calif., the two SEAL teams (60 men to a team), train at their bases or in the Virgin Islands...