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Operation Bright Light
During the Vietnam War the US military conducted a centralized effort to identify, locate, and rescue its POW/MIAs. Code-Name Bright Light. This program was designed to provide the identities and locations of American Prisoners of War and those Missing in Action. While the program succeeded in freeing hundreds of captive South Vietnamese soldiers it resulted… →
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The SCIF
There are special rooms in a number of buildings within the United States that are highly restricted areas. In the United States capitol building alone there are a number of very nondescript rooms behind doors in numbered hallways, and they look just like any other doorway in the capitol building. Most people have no idea… →
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Vietnam Advisor series; ‘Exotic foods’.
Welcome Back! As advisors, we encountered changes in our diets. Initially housed at a large replacement depot in Saigon, I awaited my assignment at Camp Alpha, located at Tân Sơn Nhựt Airforce Base. During this time, we processed in, received uniforms, weapons, field equipment, and managed (or mismanaged) administrative and financial matters. My pay and… →