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A Vietnam War veteran and Defense Intelligence Agency employee who operated as a freelance mercenary in El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico and Yemen. He later operated the Recondo mercenary training school near Dolomite, Alabama .
Victory in Vietnam: The Official History of the People's Army of Vietnam, 1954–1975. Translated by Pribbenow, Merle L. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press. ISBN 978-0-7006-1175-1. Nalty, Bernard C. (2005). The War Against Trucks: Aerial Interdiction in Southern Laos, 1968–1972. Washington DC: Air Force History and Museums Program.
The Kit Carson Scouts (also known as Tiger Scouts or Lực Lượng 66) belonged to a special program initially created by the United States Marine Corps (USMC) during the Vietnam War involving the use of former Viet Cong (VC) and People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) personnel as anti-guerrilla forces, clandestine operation, combat patrol, and intelligence scouts for American infantry units.
The Black Flag Army (Chinese: 黑 旗 軍; pinyin: Hēiqí Jūn; Vietnamese: Quân cờ đen, chữ Nôm: 軍旗黰) was a splinter remnant of a bandit and mercenary group recruited largely from soldiers of ethnic Zhuang background and former Taiping soldiers who crossed the border in 1865 from Guangxi, China into northern Vietnam, during the Nguyễn dynasty, and were hired and sponsored by ...
Various names have been applied and have shifted over time, though Vietnam War is the most commonly used title in English. It has been called the Second Indochina War since it spread to Laos and Cambodia, [63] the Vietnam Conflict, [64] [65] and Nam (colloquially 'Nam). In Vietnam it is commonly known as Kháng chiến chống Mỹ (lit.
The State Department acknowledged that the U.S. was financing approximately 4,500 Thai "volunteers" in Laos, saying that it predated a 1970 congressional ban on the use of mercenaries. [132] 7-10 June. A 2,000 strong ARVN Ranger force conducted a sweep of southeastern Cambodia killing 90 PAVN/VC for 11 Rangers killed. [133] 9 June
Camper wrote he served as part of a long-range reconnaissance patrol unit with the Second Brigade Fourth Infantry Division in Vietnam from 1965 to 1969. [1] Military records released in 1985 say he was trained as an infantryman and truck driver, and deployed in Vietnam from July 1966 to May 1967. [2]
The Vietnam Militia and Self-Defence Force (VMSF or MASDF; Vietnamese: Dân quân tự vệ Việt Nam, lit. 'Self-defence Militia of Vietnam'), known simply as the Militia ( Dân quân ) and also inaccurately recognized as the Vietnam Self-Defence Militia ( VSDM ), is the militia and reserve force of Vietnam.