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The soldiers in Vietnam had no such problem
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The soldiers in Vietnam had no such problem.
Individual acts of rebellion, ranging from desertion and sabotage to injuring and even killing officers who ordered hazardous search-and-destroy missions, merged into mutinies and large-scale resistance.
As early as the spring of 1967, sporadic small-scale mutinies were being reported in the French press but not in the U.S. media — except for the movement’s own press.
The most serious occurred on April 14 at the base of Dau Tieng (east of Tay Ninh, north of Cu Chi), when a unit of the Third Brigade of the Fourth Infantry Division defied orders to proceed on a search-and-destroy mission near where another unit had been badly cut up.
The commanding officer ordered other soldiers to fire on the rebels, who returned the fire.
One report indicated dozens of men killed or wounded and three helicopters destroyed.
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