The Marine Corps’ Combined Action Program in Vietnam paired small squads of Marines with local Popular Forces militias to secure villages through long-term presence and trust-building. Rooted in the ...
THE ROCKPILE, Vietnam — It's a freak of nature, a jagged piece of rock shaped like Gibraltar that rises 750 feet in the air. In other wars it could have been called Bunker Hill, Heartbreak Ridge or ...
Landing Zone Mack, South Vietnam, Oct. 9, 1966: A Marine hit on the head and back by grenade shrapnel receives medical attention from a Navy corpsman, about 50 yards from the top of Hill 484, also ...