American tactics in Vietnam can be summed up by the acronym BEAST - Bombing, Escalation, Air and artillery, Search and destroy and Technology. Example Bombing President Johnson ordered the bombing ...

Firebase Ripcord, and later, Artillery Base J.J. Carroll. All in all, he was in Vietnam for just under one year. “Eleven months, 26 days. I got a five-day early out. Could have been 100 years ...