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The South Vietnamese Popular Force mainly protected homes and villages in South Vietnam from attacks by the Viet Cong (VC) and later the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN). The Popular Force resembled the Local Force and village-guerrilla level component of the VC, while the Regional Force was a full-time force available for operations within a ...
Following the 1963 South Vietnamese coup, the ARVN reorganised the Civil Guard into the Regional Forces and the Self-Defense Corps was combined with several other paramilitary organizations to become the Popular Forces. Collectively, they became the Territorial Forces, better known in American circles by the combined initials RF/PF, or by the ...
South Vietnamese Popular Force; South Vietnamese Regional Forces; T. Tunnel rat This page was last edited on 22 October 2022, at 16:28 (UTC). ...
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.
At the ARVN's peak, an estimated 1 in 9 citizens of South Vietnam were enlisted, composed of Regular Forces and the more voluntary Regional Forces and the Popular Force militias. [3] It is estimated to have suffered 1,394,000 casualties (killed and wounded) during the Vietnam War .
The Vietnam People's Public Security (Vietnamese: Công an nhân dân Việt Nam) is the main police, and security force of Vietnam. The People's Public Security Forces is the core force of the people's armed forces in performing the task of protecting national security and ensuring social order and safety, and crime prevention and control.
The PAVN was first conceived in September 1944 at the first Revolutionary Party Military Conference as the Propaganda Unit of the Liberation Army (alternatively translated as the Vietnam Propaganda Liberation Army, Việt Nam Tuyên truyền Giải phóng Quân) to educate, recruit and mobilise the Vietnamese to create a main force to drive the ...
During the night of 25/6 June a PAVN force attacked the ARVN positions in the northeast but the attack was broken up by U.S. artillery. North of Phong Điền an attack on a South Vietnamese Popular Force unit was repulsed with the assistance of Company I, 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines killing 8 Viet Cong (VC). [1]: 154