Posted on Mar 15, 2016
Army Chief of Staff reports on South Vietnam - Mar 15, 1965 - HISTORY.com
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Gen. Harold K. Johnson, Army Chief of Staff, reports on his recent visit to Vietnam to President Lyndon B. Johnson and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. He admitted that the recent air raids ordered by President Johnson had not affected the course of the war and said he would like to assign an American division to hold coastal enclaves and defend the Central Highlands.
General Johnson also advocated creating a four-division force of Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) and U.S. troops to patrol the Demilitarized Zone along the border separating North and South Vietnam and Laos. Nothing ever came of General Johnson’s recommendation on the SEATO troops, but President Johnson ordered the 173rd Airborne Brigade to Vietnam in May 1965 and followed it with the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) in September of the same year. These forces, along with the first contingent of U.S. Marines–which had arrived in March–were only the first of a massive American build up. By 1969, there were more than 540,000 U.S. troops in South Vietnam.
Gen. Harold K. Johnson, Army Chief of Staff, reports on his recent visit to Vietnam to President Lyndon B. Johnson and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. He admitted that the recent air raids ordered by President Johnson had not affected the course of the war and said he would like to assign an American division to hold coastal enclaves and defend the Central Highlands.
General Johnson also advocated creating a four-division force of Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) and U.S. troops to patrol the Demilitarized Zone along the border separating North and South Vietnam and Laos. Nothing ever came of General Johnson’s recommendation on the SEATO troops, but President Johnson ordered the 173rd Airborne Brigade to Vietnam in May 1965 and followed it with the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) in September of the same year. These forces, along with the first contingent of U.S. Marines–which had arrived in March–were only the first of a massive American build up. By 1969, there were more than 540,000 U.S. troops in South Vietnam.
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Capt Seid Waddell
SSgt Jim Gilmore, exactly! and the low-lifes are busy surrendering in the GWOT as well. Why do we keep electing these pols?
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This is a show of how the higher ups never listen to the man in the ground. The government gets to make decisions on how the people of the ground should fight a war by getting details from military and civilians, but they still make there decision by what there hear and not see. I think the politicians need to at least visit where they are sending soldiers before they make big decisions.
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Johnson really got us deep into Vietnam. I don't know if younger people know just how deep. Yet polls show him as the most popular president in the last 100 years.
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Capt Seid Waddell
SP5 Mark Kuzinski, PO2 Mark Saffell, and how little they know about the man and his policies - both foreign and domestic. The man was a disaster on both fronts.
They also like Kennedy - who got us into the war in the first place. His reputation was made by Lee Harvey Oswald and he still shines today for that very reason alone.
They also like Kennedy - who got us into the war in the first place. His reputation was made by Lee Harvey Oswald and he still shines today for that very reason alone.
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PO2 Mark Saffell
even my mom remembers things differently She was a huge fan of JFK and always says had he lived he would have pulled us out of Vietnam. I don't argue with her but I also don't agree.
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