Army Air Defense Artillery units while in Vietnam, though only the HAWK battalions were actually deployed in a classical air defense artillery role. Our 14 different units served from the DMZ in the north; along the coastal plains; throughout the hills, valleys, and rivers of the Central ...
Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM): Charged with space operations, information operations, missile defense, command and control, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance; Omaha, Nebraska headquarters • Special Operations Command (SOCOM): In command of special operations, including Special Forces, Civil...
As the air-supported barrier was seeing its first action, the North Vietnamese laid siege to the Marine Corps combat base at Khe Sanh, near the intersection of the demilitarized zone and South Vietnam's border with Laos. The need to concentrate air power in defense of the base contributed...
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In this system, therefore, artillery and air were automatically deconflicted, which obviated one layer of fire support coordination. Furthermore, because few strike jets were “cleared hot” into the keyhole, time served as a deconflicter of fixed-wing CAS. The air officers of the regi...