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The Civilian Irregular Defense Group (CIDG, pronounced / ˈ s ɪ d ʒ iː /, SID-jee; Vietnamese: Lực lượng Dân sự chiến đấu) was a military program developed by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the Vietnam War, which was intended to develop South Vietnamese irregular military units (militia) from indigenous ethnic-minority populations.
Defending the camp were 10 Green Berets from the 5th Special Forces Group and 210 South Vietnamese Civilian Irregular Defense Group, supported by Air Commando units equipped with vintage A-1 Skyraiders and AC-47 Spooky gunships. Two South Vietnamese camps at A Lưới and Ta Bat in the A Shau valley had been abandoned on 8 December 1965. [5]
An official Army history of the Green Berets, published after the Vietnam War, [14] does not mention Project GAMMA or Detachment B-57. Although the Pentagon has declassified much of the material about Green Beret operations inside Laos and Cambodia, as of 2007 [update] , nothing on Project GAMMA has been made available.
The Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN; Vietnamese: Lục quân Việt Nam Cộng hòa; French: Armée de la république du Viêt Nam) composed the ground forces of the South Vietnamese military from its inception in 1955 to the Fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. [2]
The South Vietnamese Regional Forces (Vietnamese: Địa phương quân, lit. "Local Army"), originally the Civil Guard, were a component of Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) territorial defence forces. Recruited locally, they served as full-time province-level forces, originally raised as a militia. In 1964, the Regional Forces were ...
In 1961, the Special Forces and the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) 1st Infantry Division, based in the northernmost area of South Vietnam, conducted a joint operation against Communist infiltrators in northern Quảng Trị Province. In the autumn of 1961, Special Forces units began Operation Eagle at Bình Hưng with a night parachute ...
Republic of Vietnam: Branch: Vietnamese National Army Army of the Republic of Vietnam: Type: Airborne forces: Size: 13,000 in 1967: Garrison/HQ: Tan Son Nhut, near Saigon: Nickname(s) Bawouans (in French) Lính nhảy dù (in Vietnamese) Thiên thần mũ đỏ (Angels in Red Berets) Thiên binh (Heavenly Army) Motto(s) Thiên Thần Sát ...
The Republic of Vietnam Military Forces (RVNMF; Vietnamese: Quân lực Việt Nam Cộng hòa – QLVNCH), were the armed forces of the Republic of Vietnam and were responsible for the defence of the country from 8 December 1950 [2] [3] to 30 April 1975. Its predecessor, the Vietnamese National Army, was the armed forces of the State of ...