By Gordon L. Rottman
US specified Forces in Vietnam created and expert the Civilian abnormal protection workforce, a wide paramilitary association designed to function out of fortified camps in distant parts and safeguard the neighborhood inhabitants from Viet Cong incursions, while undertaking border surveillance, raids and wrestle patrols within the neighborhood region. Their fortified camps have been usually overrun via the Viet Cong and, having no spare manpower, the united states precise Forces created committed response devices that can act in a responsive and versatile demeanour - cellular Strike (MIKE) Forces.
This e-book examines the MIKE devices, that have been shaped from the CIDG, the parachute and airmobile education they got, and the operations that they undertook, from relieving pleasant camps to large-scale self sustaining offensive operations. Written via Gordon L. Rottman, a former US distinct Forces soldier in Vietnam, this identify offers the 1st organizational background of the MIKE forces during this clash.
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222 I II Kontum I ~ MSF ·212 213 • •• IB-20....... {~}-? : 232 MSF '233 Pleiku 241 •. SF . 251 ;252 ;253 36th Mobile Strike Force Command, 1969 III I MSFC I I II I ~ MSF 32/312 33/313 ~ .. ····1llDBJB-36 I I II I [2] L ... IA-362 It~ IA-363 I I 31/311 136 • •• ~363/3313 ~36V3m L ... S .. F... •. 35/322 ~ MSF 37/331 38/332 39/333 33 A more robust command organization was implemented on May 23, 1968 when the MIKE Forces were enlarged to brigade size and a B-team assigned with multiple A-teams, one per battalion.
The four company commanders were usually master sergeants or sergeants first class assisted by two or three NCOs, one of whom was usually a medic. By the end of the year a fifth rifle company was raised and the A-team's strength slightly increased. Additionally, two to 12 officers and warrant officers (senior NCOs equivalent to US sergeants major) of the Australian Army Training Team, Vietnam (AATT~ or "The Team") were attached to the A-team and served alongside the USSF as advisors and leaders in the I and II Corps MIKE Forces.
In 1967 the companies were given two-digit numbers with the first identifying the corps area (21-29th Companies were in the II Corps MSF). This was implemented at different times by the MSFs. In May/June 1968 they were redesignated with three-digit numbers as CIDG CSF companies with the first number being the CTZ's, or "5" in the 5th MSF, the second digit the parent battalion, and the third the company within the battalion. : I ••• ~~ Boo I 1 ~ 1 x BAR 36 I : 1 •• o •• 0] I W 1 x 60mm mortar I I ~ 1 x M1919A6 MG 0 , : of the 2d MSFC.