Word: troops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hatch. "O.K., men, we're marines, let's do the job," shouted one young corporal, but as he climbed out of his amtrak to lead a counterattack, a bullet hit him between the eyes. The remaining marines finally made a stand inside two of the lumbering troop carriers, taking turns sharpshooting from their peepholes and splashing water on each other to relieve the sweltering heat...
...Viet Nam's will-o'-the-wisp war is mobility. As guerrillas, the Viet Cong have naturally used it to the best advantage so far, slipping stealthily through swamps and jungles to attack, then disappear. But thanks to the growing armada of troop-carrying transports and helicopters in Viet Nam, the U.S. has developed its own brand of mobility. Last week, despite shifting veils of monsoon rain and cloud, that mobility was being used to good effect. Siege & Spider Holes. First demonstration came in the battle for Route 19, an affair that at first glance seemed doomed...
...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...
...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...