Word: troops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the Communists were idle. At South Viet Nam's southern tip, the Viet Cong slashed into the town of Ca Mau, seized the provincial hospital and held it for eleven hours before finally being driven out, leaving 275 of their dead behind. North Vietnamese troops wiped out a small U.S.-South Vietnamese camp only six miles from Danang, but U.S. troopers, with the aid of air and artillery, caught and killed 129 of the Communists south of the city. U.S. Marine and ARVN troopers, sweeping northeast of the DMZ Marine supply base of Dong Ha, found a battalion...
...Target. Enemy troop movements of late have led the command of General William Westmoreland to revise its estimates of the likely next big move of North Viet Nam's General Vo Nguyen Giap. North Vietnamese army units along the DMZ appear to be shifting eastward, away from Khe Sanh, toward Quang Tri City or Hué. The 304th NVA division, which was south of Khe Sanh, has been moving with truck convoys through the A Shau valley toward Hué. If Hué rather than Khe Sanh is the enemy's big target, that will not bother...
...troop commitments to Viet Nam are being escalated by at least two. Marine Captain Charles Robb, 28, has been scheduled all along to ship out to Viet Nam, and his orders now call for him to leave at the end of the month. But Pat Nugent, 24, is a surprise addition to the fighting forces. At his own request, Airman First Class Nugent has been transferred from a Texas Air National Guard unit to the Washington-based 113th Tactical Fighter Wing. He reports for active duty next week and expects to go to Viet...
This erosion of support may force Johnson to reevaluate the situation in Vietnam instead of capitulating to General Westmoreland's latest troop demands...
...reading the statement, Fulbright underlined the key issue of the hearings--whether further escalations would be allowed. By endorsing it, he set himself and the majority of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in direct opposition to any further escalation of U.S. troop commitments in Vietnam...