By West, Francis J
Few American battles were so prolonged, savage and private. A handful of usa citizens volunteered to stay between six thousand Vietnamese, education farmers to safeguard their village. Such "Combined motion Platoons" (CAPs) at the moment are a misplaced footnote approximately how the battle might have been fought; basically the villagers stay to endure witness. this is often the tale of fifteen resolute younger americans matched opposed to 2 hundred Viet Read more...
summary: Few American battles were so prolonged, savage and private. A handful of usa citizens volunteered to dwell between six thousand Vietnamese, education farmers to shield their village. Such "Combined motion Platoons" (CAPs) at the moment are a misplaced footnote approximately how the conflict might have been fought; in basic terms the villagers stay to undergo witness. this can be the tale of fifteen resolute younger american citizens matched opposed to 200 Viet Cong; how a CAP lived, fought and died. And why the villagers take into account them to at the present time
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Second, Walt asked the battalion officers to send only men who could get along with the villagers. Major Braun had been emphatic on that point, and it slowed the selection procedure. It took eight days to pick twelve men. The officers were aware from their own surveys that over 40 percent of the Marines disliked the Vietnamese. The problem was particularly acute among the small-unit leaders—the lieutenants and sergeants—whose opinions had considerable effect on their men. In addressing the problem, the Marine command had written that its surveys “suggest that of our squad leaders graduating from NCO Leadership School less than one in five marches (sic) forth with a positive attitude toward the ARVN and PF, and that probably one-third go forth with a strong dislike for the local people.
At its base, they were met by Lam, who had with him fifteen police and eighteen PFs. Lam had decided to abandon the hill outpost because it took twenty minutes to walk from there to the nearest hamlet. With the arrival of the Marines, Lam felt his force was strong enough to move closer to the village. The police chief had selected as his new headquarters a three-room adobe villa which sat at the outskirts of the third and largest of the hamlets called Binh Yen Noi. The villa, which had been deserted by a rich landowner in 1950 when the Viet Minh had first taken the village, looked south across a wide expanse of paddies.
Beautiful—that was beautiful. Right in there. Right on the bastard. ” Then Lummis was bellowing, “Brannon, shut up. ” On both flanks, the Marines and PFs emptied magazines into the swamp. Red lines of heavy tracers cut back and forth through the bushes which stretched ten meters to the open river. After about ten seconds, they stopped firing. Someone cursed. The clatter of empty magazines being changed drowned out his voice. “Knock it off and sit still. Listen for them,” Lummis said. “We probably got that one, so listen for groans.