Word: regimentation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prisoners said that they had been subsisting for weeks on less than half a pound of rice a day; for the last three days before their capture, they had had no food whatsoever. Relieved to be free of the threat of instant death, the prisoners told of one regiment that had lost 75% of its 2,000 men to U.S. bombs and artillery...
...enemy proved elusive in the first days of the sweep, but then a U.S. armored cavalry regiment flushed a Viet Cong battalion 15 miles northwest of Saigon. In a nine-hour battle, 81 of the enemy were killed without a single U.S. loss. By week's end, some 500 Communists had been killed in about 60 scattered clashes. Even so, U.S. intelligence suspected that most Communist units had either withdrawn toward Cambodia or broken up their units into small bands to escape detection and avoid contact...
...Marines have their 2nd Division (20,000 men), at Camp Lejeune, N.C., in combat readiness-an Atlantic reserve that must maintain seagoing battalion-landing teams with the Navy's Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean, and for the Caribbean. Combat ready on the West Coast, the 28th Marine Regiment (about 5,000 men) is rattling around in California's Camp Pendleton, a bare skeleton force whose departure would empty the West of Marines...
...Short Month. Menacing as the situation appeared around Saigon, the main enemy threat still hung over the northern provinces below the DMZ. The siege around Khe Sanh closed tighter than ever; the outpost is now surrounded by two divisions and a regiment. As the NVA crept closer and closer to the camp's perimeter, one probing patrol of South Vietnamese Rangers hardly got outside the camp when they came under heavy enemy attack and had to retreat. In a way, the entire northern edge of South Viet Nam has come under the same sort of siege. Allied strength...
...triumphantly running up the Stars and Stripes in full view of modern Hué, across the river. The death toll was among the most expensive of the war: nearly 450 allied dead, including some 100 U.S. Marines, and so many casualties that the 5th Battalion's 1st Regiment was finally left at half strength...