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The attack on the Joint General Staff (JGS) Compound, the headquarters of the Republic of Vietnam Military Forces, occurred during the early hours of 31 January 1968. The JGS was located east of Tan Son Nhut Air Base. The attack by Vietcong (VC) forces was one of several major attacks on Saigon in the first days of the Tet offensive. The attack ...
Dalhart Army Air Field, Texas, 1 June 1944; Harvard Army Air Field, Nebraska, 23 August 1944 – 7 March 1945; Northwest Field, Guam, Marianna Islands, 14 April 1945 – 10 June 1946 [24] Pleiku Air Base, South Vietnam, 8 May 1965; Nha Trang Air Base, South Vietnam, 15 September 1966 [25] Cam Ranh Bay Air Base, South Vietnam, 1 September 1969
List of military installations in Texas Installation name Location Notes Kelly Field / Joint Base San Antonio San Antonio: formerly Kelly Air Force Base Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base: Houston: Lackland Air Force Base: San Antonio Randolph Air Force Base: San Antonio Fort Sam Houston: San Antonio Camp Bullis: San Antonio Martindale Army Air ...
On 29 July 2024, the Vietnam People's Air Force (VPAF) 920th Air Training Regiment of the Air Force Officer's College finished moving all of its Iak-52 trainer aircraft from its old base at Cam Ranh International Airport to the new base at airport. Before that, on 17 July, the 920th Regiment, together with the 918th Transport Regiment ...
The attacks on Tan Son Nhut and at Bien Hoa Air Base slowly led to an improvement in air base defense across South Vietnam, with improved bunkers and heavier defensive armament including 0.50 cal machine guns, M67 recoilless rifles and M29 mortars and, at Tan Son Nhut, two truck-mounted M45 Quadmounts.
Joint Base San Antonio (JBSA) is a United States military facility located in San Antonio, Texas, US. The facility is under the jurisdiction of the United States Air Force 502d Air Base Wing, Air Education and Training Command (AETC). The wing's three Mission Support Groups perform the installation support mission at the three bases that form JBSA.
U.S. Air Force security guards exchanged gunfire with someone who twice opened fire on an entrance to Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland early Saturday, according to a spokesperson for the base.
The Vietnam War effectively began with the start of the North Vietnamese backed VC insurgency in 1959/60 and the U.S. increased its military aid and advisory support to South Vietnam in response. [1]: 119–20 With the worsening military and political situation in South Vietnam, the U.S. increasingly became directly involved in the conflict.