Word: uniformly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...made of the fact that such executions, en masse, are the Viet Cong way of war." Smith reports that his own son Jack, left for dead by the Communists in the battle of la Drang, witnessed the execution by the enemy of a dozen U.S. soldiers who were in uniform...
...very pleasant place either. The only businesses are barrooms and army-navy uniform stores. One tavern, which the neighbors call "The Bucket of Blood," was the scene of a gangland murder a few years ago. There's another tavern, which they call "Dodge City," that is supposed to be a little bit safer. Then there's another bar called Frank the Gook's. In Frank the Gook's you can buy anything you want. Lined up with the bottles on the back part of Frank the Gook's bar are all sorts of things. Timex watches, kid gloves, candy bars...
Navymen call the "Soviet uniform"-white jockey shorts...
...question is even more relevant now, since more than 5,500 suspected Communists were captured during the Tet offensive. In previous modern wars, the rare soldier caught out of uniform could expect to be shot as a spy; the Geneva Convention of 1949 in effect denies prisoner-of-war status to spies. It allows soldiers captured out of uniform to qualify for P.W. privileges if they 1) carried arms "openly" or 2) fought "in accordance with the laws and customs of war." But in Viet Nam, what is a uniform? The Viet Cong dress in the black pajamas...
Supplying Icebreakers. Foreseeing that few field soldiers would be able to judge those matters, the Pentagon in 1966 broadened P.W. status to include all captives, taken in or out of combat, in or out of uniform, with three exceptions: terrorists, saboteurs and spies. U.S. troops are now issued individual instruction cards spelling out how to treat prisoners (they "must be protected against violence") and even providing such icebreakers in Vietnamese as "Lay down your gun" ("Buong sung xuong"). After questioning, the prisoners are supposed to be turned over to the South Vietnamese for detention...