Saturday, May 12, 2018

You had to bet your life to graduate from the Vietnam-era Recondo school

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I passed *his villa on the way to work each day. ( I rented the top half of this villa 141 Tran Quy Cap, Saigon for $100 a month in 1969/70 and paid by sending a check to Paris) He had a beautiful Peacock in the yard and it was the first time I had seen one.  First time I had eaten an Artichoke also. :) ( Virginia Ham & An Hindu )

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When *Maj. Gen. William Westmoreland took command of the 101st Airborne in 1958, he noticed a severe lack of proficiency in small-unit tactics and patrolling.

So he immediately created a school to fix the problem.

When he took command of all American forces in the Vietnam War, he once again created a school to teach long-range patrolling and small unit tactics with a Ranger-qualified cadre of instructors from the 5th Special Forces Group. To graduate from this school, you had to bet your life on it.

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