The bureaucratic position of CORDS within the "chain of command" of the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV) gave it access to funding and attention.
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Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone, between North and South Vietnam (1954–76) at approximately the 17th parallel north
While deployed to Vietnam, the 481st aircraft had green triangles painted on the tails which allowed the Forward Air Controllers to easily identify the F-100s they were controlling as being part of the 481st.
In April 2011, this species was discovered in the mangrove forest of U Minh Thuong National Park, Kiên Giang Province, southern Vietnam.
After his Vietnam War tour, Gray served as Commanding Officer of the 1st Battalion, 2nd Marines, Battalion Landing Team 1/2; the 2nd Marine Regiment; the 4th Marine Regiment; and Camp Commander of Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan.
An-My Lê (born 1960, Saigon, Vietnam) is an American photographer, and professor at Bard College.
A former motorcycle gang leader, Mike (Tom Stern), returns home from Vietnam to resume his life and form a new motorcycle gang.
After the death of Lê Văn Duyệt, the viceroy of southern Vietnam in 1832, the emperor Minh Mạng, who was involved in a power struggle with Duyệt, appointed Nguyễn to investigate the viceroy's administration.
Bánh phu thê (literally "husband and wife cake") is a Vietnamese dessert made from rice with mung beans stuffing wrapped in a box made of pandan leaves.
With the beginning of the Tet Offensive on January 30, 1968, the Vietnamese lunar New Year (Vietnamese: Tết Nguyên Đán) large conventional American forces had been committed to combat upon Vietnamese soil for almost three years.
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Medina is mentioned by name in the first stanza of Pete Seeger's Vietnam protest song "Last Train to Nuremberg" (1970).
The Nam (1997), is a 1,000-page book which describes the plots of six Vietnam films in their entirety: the films are Apocalypse Now, Born on the Fourth of July, The Deer Hunter, Full Metal Jacket, Hamburger Hill and Platoon.
First Sergeant Maximo Yabes (January 29, 1932 – February 26, 1967) - (Vietnam) U.S. Army, Company A, 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry, 25th Infantry Division.
In December 1967, he took part in an interview which was broadcast on WAMU, the second part of a series on the Vietnam War; the first part's interview subject had been General William Westmoreland.
He served tours in France, Germany, Korea and Vietnam as well as stateside assignments at Seneca Army Depot, Romulus, New York; Fort Holabird, Maryland; Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; Fort Huachuca, Arizona; Fort Hood, Texas; Washington, DC; and Fort McPherson, Georgia.
The Contemporary Arts Centre is located in Hanoi, Vietnam that showcases modern Vietnamese art.
Currently for Vietnam, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 59 provinces and 5 municipalities.
On May 23, 1967, Howard created a public controversy over the M16, the basic combat rifle in Vietnam, beginning after he read a letter to the House of Representatives in which a Marine in Vietnam claims that almost all Americans killed in the Battle of Hill 881 died as a result of their new M16 rifles jamming.
During the Vietnam War he received acclaim from the mainstream media, and disdain from the American military, for his reporting on the effects of B-52 dumping runs on their way back to bases in Udon Thani, Thailand — when bombers didn't drop all their payload over Hanoi, they dumped their bombs in Laos to cut the risk of accidents on landing, which led to innocent rural Lao and Hmong being killed.
As a brigadier general he served as assistant division commander of the 82nd Airborne Division, then became assistant division commander of the 101st Airborne Division, deploying with that unit to Vietnam as its commander in 1970.
He strongly opposed the Vietnam War and (though no supporter of Communism) visited North Vietnam at the invitation of the North Vietnam peace committee, while Australia was involved in fighting in South Vietnam.
Following early assignments in Australia, Vietnam, Greece, and Pakistan, as well as in Washington, Wolf served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from 1989-1992, and Ambassador to Malaysia from 1992-1995.
Khánh An, U Minh, a commune in U Minh District, Ca Mau Province, Vietnam
the Carl Gustav M/45, also known as the Kpist m/45, a Swedish submachinegun used by American special forces during the Vietnam War.
As a long working partner of Hong Kong film director Evans Chan, she was named Best Actress at the Golden Horse Film Festival for her performance in To Liv(e) (1992) for the role of Rubie, who writes a letter to Swedish actress Liv Ullmann against her criticism of Hong Kong's policy in expelling Vietnamese boat people.
Upon resignation of his post he gathered the local nobility and tribes within the Red River Valley (North Vietnam) mobilized the imperial troops and naval fleet of Jiaozhou and successfully expelled the Liang administration and led the insurrection that ended in 543.
Sheehan eventually completed the book, A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (1988, published by Random House and edited by Robert Loomis).
Nha Trang Airport may refer to the 2 airports serving Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa, Vietnam.
Phoenix Program, CIA military, intelligence, and internal security program in the Vietnam War
Northern Pig-tailed Macaque, Macaca leonina (Bangladesh to Vietnam, south to northern Malaysia)
The countries around China, such as Vietnam and Korea, also celebrate variations of this Dragon Boat Festival as part of their shared cultural heritage.
Quy Nhơn Port is the most accessible major port not only for Bình Định Province, but also for the Central Highlands provinces of Gia Lai and Kon Tum and even parts of Laos and Cambodia such as Attapeu Province and Ratanakiri Province.
Provisional Revolutionary Government of Republic of South Vietnam, was an underground government opposed to the Republic of Vietnam based in Saigon.
Noppadon Pattama, the foreign minister of Thailand, wants to call the forum the Council on Rice Trade Cooperation and was planning, as of May 2008, to invite; China, India, Pakistan, Cambodia, Burma, and Vietnam.
Shannon Lynn Jones was born on August 28, 1969 in Killeen, Texas, US, to Leonard Jones (stationed at Fort Hood, drafted into the army for the Vietnam War) and Barbara Kubiszewski Walsh.
The Sabres began to play a role in the Vietnam War in 1965, when their air defence responsibilities expanded to include protection of USAF aircraft using Ubon as a base for strikes against North Vietnam.
Teinopalpus aureus, the golden kaiserihind, a butterfly species found in China and possibly Vietnam
Vietnam veteran Don Lomax, creator of the independent title Vietnam Journal, took over writing duties for The 'Nam in the early 1990s.
He also served in the United States Navy in Vietnam from 1967 to 1968 and holds a bachelor's degree in marketing from Boston College.
The Vietnam News Agency describes Toc Tien as, "well known among local teens" (in Vietnam).
In his 2000 installation, Hamburger Hill, at Hotel Pupik in Schrattenberg, Austria, Vu constructed a recreation of the Battle of Hamburger Hill in Vietnam.
Some members went back to Vietnam while others stayed in the border provinces of Yunnan and Guangxi along the Chinese border with Vietnam.
Vietnam Requiem was an ABC News Closeup Series television documentary directed by Bill Couturié and Jonas McCord.
(VVMF), was a non-profit organization established on April 27, 1979, by Jan Scruggs, Jack Wheeler, and several other Vietnam War veterans, finance the construction of a memorial to those Americans who died or were killed during the Vietnam War.
Veteran Robert Muller, interviewed on China Beach, calls the war a lie and talks about his own belief of this soon after his landing there in 1965.
In 1962 Bazhenov embarked on a working voyage on the ship "Eugene Nikishin", from Leningrad to Vladivostok around Europe and Asia with stops in ports of Gibraltar, Suez, Singapore and Vietnam.
When I Came Home is a 2006 documentary directed by Dan Lohaus about homeless veterans in the United States - from those who served in Vietnam to those returning from the Iraq War.
Their second book, Reconciliation After Vietnam (1978) was said to have influenced then-president Jimmy Carter to issue a blanket pardon to Vietnam draft resisters.
Its origins lie in American R&B, surf rock artists like The Ventures, Dick Dale, Exotica, rockabilly and country and western brought over by American and Australian Soldiers serving in Vietnam in the late 1950s and early 60's when on R&R.
Martin's style of presentation is infused with a little bit of humour, with the series shown widely on public television in the United States, on Food Network in Canada and on HTV in Vietnam.