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Firefighting At Tay Ninh
All South Vietnam Army logistical units in III Corps were based in Saigon, except for a sub-depot in Tay Ninh, a provincial capital near the border of Cambodia. MACV Advisory Team 9 provided guidance to the Third Area Logistics Command and its assign
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Alfred V. Rascon
Medal of Honor recipient Alfred Velazquez Rascon is one of few American soldiers to earn the Combat Medical Badge and the Combat Infantryman Badge in the same war. He earned a second Combat Medical Badge in a subsequent war. Rascon was born in Chihua
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Search And Destroy
Two months after the November 1965 Battle of Ia Drang Valley, Gen. William C. Westmoreland, Commander, Military Assistance Command, Vietnam approved what was then the largest searchand-destroy operation of the Vietnam War. Originally named Masher, t

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