At the LZ A-Company has now been inserted to help B-Company. As A-Company approached B-Companies position they saw the NVA moving around to flank B-Companies position, so they crossed a dry creek to cut off any NVA from flanking B-Companies position (www.nvo.org/vv98/other/010031.htm, 2001.). The insertion of C and D Companies were completed, they secured the LZ perimeter as A-Company moved up to the ridge to reinforce B-Company. ... C-D Companies were still fighting with two of the NVA companies. ... The war traced its origins to before the Cold War and even before World War II. ...

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One of the significant concepts in The Things They Carried is that of the importance of certain objects or feelings used by the soldiers of Alpha Company to survive the war. ... This bond that the soldiers form helped them to survive, excluded someone who was outside their group, and helped the men of Alpha Company to cope with the war after they returned to the United States. ... The men of Alpha Company trusted each other with their lives. ... When the soldiers returned from the war they find a country that does not want to talk about the war and is even trying to forget it happened. ... Wit...

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One of the significant concepts in The Things They Carried is that of the importance of certain objects or feelings used by the soldiers of Alpha Company to survive the war. ... This bond that the soldiers form helped them to survive, excluded someone who was outside their group, and helped the men of Alpha Company to cope with the war after they returned to the United States. ... The men of Alpha Company trusted each other with their lives. ... When the soldiers returned from the war they find a country that does not want to talk about the war and is even trying to forget it happened. ... Wit...

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The Vietnam War, unlike the Korean War and World War II, was the war that US television brought images of devastation, suffering and tragedy of Vietnamese people to the Americans every night. ... From there, the war protest began. ... Whole companies and naval units mutinied and refused to carry out orders. ... The Legislative composed of anti-war elective officials handcuffed the Executive by laws which progressively made President Nixon lose power in the war. ... The war also left behind a painful America. ...

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This was an obvious fear of death in war. ... It was understood that Tim would go to war. ... Erik did not want to be in the war. ... While under Alpha Company, Tim and the soldiers planned ambushes and gunfire in My Lai and Pinkville. ... The reasons why Tim did not want to go to war did not match other people's reasons for going to war. ...

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At that time Americans had enormous pride and confidence in going to war. ... At the beginning of the Vietnam War, the atmosphere was like Kipling's colonial wars. ... Lieutenant Bradley called Vietnam the "splendid little war." ... The men in the military along with Caputo were drawn to war (71). ... At the end of May, Caputo was ordered to report back to Regimental Headquarters Company as an administrative officer. ...

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After a while he was assigned as the assistant adjutant because the former one, Lieutenant Schwartz, was going to take command of a rifle company. ... Not long after, he volunteered for a line company in the First Battalion. There, he was put in charge of a Platoon leader for C Company. ... These things all display how war can affect man; war truly is a nightmare. ... A Rumor of War is one ...

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In war, armies constantly introduce new technologies in an attempt to maintain the advantage over their enemies. In the Vietnam War, the Americans used Agent Orange, a plant killer that destroyed the massive amount of vegetation that sheltered the enemy guerillas in Vietnam. ... For the past 51 years, the Vietnamese people have attempted to address this legacy of war by trying to get the American owned chemical companies to accept responsibility for the atrocities that sprung from the chemicals used in Vietnam. An unsuccessful legal action by the newly formed Vietnamese Association for Victims...

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(O"Brien, If I Die in a Combat Zone 22) The next thing he knew he was being shipped off to Vietnam where he joined the Alpha Company. The Alpha Company was stationed outside Chu Lai. The territory patrolled by Alpha Company was frightening and forbidding. ... All the stories deal with a single platoon, the Alpha Company. ... The standouts of The Alpha Company included Azar who was strong and hard, one of those guys you wonder if he was crazy. ...

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The soldiers carried loneliness, uncertainty of the truth of war, and the heavy burden of physical and emotion weight; Tim O'Brien uses war related imagery to symbolize the vim of storytelling in his book "The Things They Carried". ... The love of having someone always there for them contradicted the loneliness and seclusion from the rest of the world inside the infinite amounts of trees and the understanding and compassion received from the members in Alpha Company. Cross and Martha were both a prime example of the difficulty of sustaining love in the Vietnam War. ... "T...

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The Integration of Air Mobility During the Vietnam War, leaders observed the integration of air mobility assets as a force multiplier. ... This tactical basis has allowed the Air Force to remain in good standing, as demonstrated by the effectiveness of combat during the Gulf War and the Balkans. ... On 5 February 1963, the 11th AA Div. activated as a component the following unit, Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC), 11th Aviation Group. ... These units' aircraft were the sustaining force of the Army's first air transport division and the continued war efforts. ... Soon a...

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After the funeral, the Charlie Company had revenge on their minds. ... Since he was the leader of the Charlie Company, he was held accountable for the actions of his men. ... We train our soldiers to go into war as blind monkeys. ... In my opinion, I think this example shows us that war solves nothing. Sure there are problems there that led to war, but I simply don't understand how demolishing another country's population will solve it. ...

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This tiny country has long been ravished by war and conquering neighbors. ... Agent Orange was one of the fifteen defoliants developed by Monsanto Corporation, Dow Chemicals, along with eight other companies that were used during the Vietnam War. ... But war is war, the battle is in the past. ... These families, who worked at the opposite end during the Vietnam War now represent the final vestige of the war: Agent Orange. ... Even though the U.S , and these companies are denying their responsibilities, there are any other ways out there we as people can help the victims of Agent Orange. ...

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The sniper was so curious because he wanted to know if he was acquainted with the enemy, if he had been in his company before. ... Why did this war ever start? ... What does war solve? ... However, what effect does war make? ... Although the war is technically over, Iraq has started a guerrilla war on the Americans. ...

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In the novel, the horror reflects Kurtz's tragedy of transforming into a ruthless animal, whereas in the film, the horror has more of a definite meaning, reflecting the war and all the barbaric fighting that is going on. ... "Apocalypse Now " was released in 1979 and was set in a war and hostile Vietnam. Conrad uses ivory traders as his characters in Heart of Darkness and the ivory trade in "Apocalypse Now, " Coppola uses soldiers and the Vietnam War. ... He understands what happened to men during the Vietnam War and why so many of them went mad. ... In the book, Marlow, a captain of a s...

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This man is Captain Benjamin Willard, an assassin for the Army's Special Forces, who struggles interminably with the "abomination" of the Vietnam War. ... Meanwhile, Willard finds himself on the Nung River during the chaos of the Vietnam War. ... This overall thought is the same, each character having to stop at stations and collect Company (in Willard's case Army) materials and, ultimately, relieve Kurtz of his post. ... His whole persona summed up the commercialism the war in Vietnam seemed to be escalated by. What was the war being fought for except for the notion to end ...

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The cap-badge of the World War II Special Service Force was the crossed arrows, which had belonged to the Indian Scouts who were no longer in force. ... The Offensive Handgun Weapon System (OHWS) contract was awarded to Heckler & Koch, Inc. and Colt's Manufacturing Company in August of 1991. ...

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