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...TRANSPORTATION. Obsolete equipment, notably trucks and troop carriers of World War II and Korean War vintage, and shortages, particularly of helicopters. The Army has 400 helicopters in Viet Nam, keeps them at full strength only by scrounging replacements from three Stateside divisions, all part of the Strategic Army Corps, which is held in reserve to cope with emergencies anywhere in the world...
...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...
...policy finally settled on was the less dramatic announcement of an in crease in U.S. troop commitments from the regular armed forces, accompanied by an increase in the draft, but without immediate recourse to the reserves...
Into Cam Ranh Bay on South Viet Nam's bulging east coast slipped a grey-hulled U.S. troop transport, its decks aswarm with the "Screaming Eagles" of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division. Sentries on the dock paced impassively, their faces shadowed under their helmet liners, their M-14 rifles riding taut from the slings. As the transport neared the dock, a cry went up from the 3,700 paratroopers: "Take a break! We're here!" The sentries, like veterans anywhere, smiled knowingly...
...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...