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Written by Al Santoli   
Monday, 29 June 2009

Operations south of Bong Son , 25 Jan to increase the security of Route 1 and to confuse the enemy as to which way we were headed. 28 Jan D-Day for Operation Masher (Editor's Note: This article is an excerpt from the book, Everything We Had, by Al Santoli  © 1981.)

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President Johnson deployed the Air Mobile Division, as he called it, to Vietnam on a nationally televised press conference on July 28, 1965. I was stationed in the 1st Cavalry at Fort Benning, Georgia. Air assault was a new concept in warfare - fast deployment of troops, fast evacuation, fast medevacs, fast resupply. Everything was helicopter-oriented.

 

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