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1966 – Operation Jackstay in Navy’s first amphibious assault in Vietnam’s inland waters.
Operation JACKSTAY begins with an amphibious assault on the Long Thanh peninsula by the US Marines. The RVN committed two Marine battalions. In late February and early March, the VC had attacked two cargo ships on the shipping channel to Saigon and MACV requested that this force be used to clear their base area. This operation, 39 miles southeast of Saigon in the Rung Sat Special Zone, is the southernmost large-scale employment of U.S. forces in Vietnam to date. It terminates on 6 April 1966. They claimed at least 63 enemy KIAs while suffering 5 US KIA, 2 US MIA and 25 US WIA.
https://thisdayinusmilhist.wordpress.com/2014/03/26/march-26/
Operation JACKSTAY begins with an amphibious assault on the Long Thanh peninsula by the US Marines. The RVN committed two Marine battalions. In late February and early March, the VC had attacked two cargo ships on the shipping channel to Saigon and MACV requested that this force be used to clear their base area. This operation, 39 miles southeast of Saigon in the Rung Sat Special Zone, is the southernmost large-scale employment of U.S. forces in Vietnam to date. It terminates on 6 April 1966. They claimed at least 63 enemy KIAs while suffering 5 US KIA, 2 US MIA and 25 US WIA.
https://thisdayinusmilhist.wordpress.com/2014/03/26/march-26/
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SSG Robert Burns
Here I'll give it to you so you can ask it. Should get a lot of responses. "What are the famous battles of OIF/OEF that will be in the history books? What is our Gettysburg, Bull Run, Waterloo, etc?"
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