Word: battalions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Elsewhere, the fighting was pretty much "Vietnamized." In northern Quang Nam province, South Vietnamese regional force troops captured 58 of the enemy and killed another 130, including a battalion commander and a Communist district chief. Meanwhile, in the Mekong Delta, ARVN (Army of the Republic of Viet Nam) troops and Marines struck back at North Vietnamese forces that had bested them in previous skirmishes...
...hand of a U.S. military policeman with a machete. In June, two American military police who had rushed to a bar in response to complaints that a drunken G.I. was making trouble were shot to death by Lieut. Colonel Nguyen Viet Can, commander of the Vietnamese airborne battalion that guards President Thieu's Independence Palace. No charges were filed against the colonel...
...have for years provided tactical support for the most effective government force in Laos-General Vang Pao's Meo tribesmen. The CIA men and the military advisers train, equip, support and transport the entire Royal Laotian military effort. Americans have been known to advise on tactics on the battalion level...
While the speakers were talking in a courtyard across from the hospital, four busloads of riot-equipped poise stood in battalion order along the sidewalk. Police were also stationed in front of the hospital and around the corridors inside...
...battlefield not so much as a special environment but as a kind of telescoped, infinitely more stressful version of ordinary life. For this reason, and to get the men back to duty as quickly as possible, the Army is creating a new breed of lay therapist, from the battalion surgeon to the squad sergeant to the commanding officer. All these men stand on the line with the soldier. If they are taught to understand and deal with the factors that can cripple a fighting man without visibly injuring him, they can provide an effective, on-the-spot countermeasure against this...