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Viet Xuan Luong. Việt Xuan Luong (Vietnamese: Lương Xuân Việt) is a retired United States Army major general. He is the first American officer promoted to general officer rank who was born in Vietnam. [1] He last served as the Commanding General of United States Army, Japan / I Corps Forward. He previously served as the Deputy Commanding ...
The branch colours that form the piping of the shoulder boards are as follows: Army (ground forces): red. Navy: dark blue/navy blue. Air Force/Air defence: azure. Border Defence: green. Coast Guard: blue. The shoulder insignia ranks are in gold shoulder boards in the Ground Forces, Air Force and Navy. Border Defense Force's ranks are in dark ...
Ta Oi boys reading, Salavan Province, Laos. Ta Oi women spreading leaves also known as pak gat, Salavan Province, Laos. The Ta-oi ethnic group speaks a language in the Mon–Khmer language family, and is regarded as one of Vietnam's indigenous groups. The Ta Oi call themselves Taoih, or sometimes as Taoih or Ta Uot, and is called by the Paco ...
Sóc Trăng (362,029 people, constituting 30.18% of the province's population and 27.43% of all Khmer in Vietnam), Trà Vinh (318,231 people, constituting 31.53% of the province's population and 24.11% of all Khmer in Vietnam), Kiên Giang (211,282 people, constituting 12.26% of the province's population and 16.01% of all Khmer in Vietnam), An ...
Reunification Day (Vietnamese: Ngày Thống nhất), also known as Victory Day (Ngày Chiến thắng), Liberation Day (Ngày Giải phóng or Ngày Giải phóng miền Nam), or by its official name, Day of the Liberation of the South and National Reunification (Ngày Giải phóng miền Nam, thống nhất đất nước) [2] is a public holiday in Vietnam that marks the event when the ...
Vietnam, [ e ][ f ] officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, [ g ] is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about 331,000 square kilometres (128,000 sq mi) and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country.
110 killed 2 missing. US body count: 865 killed. Operation Union was a search and destroy mission in the Que Son Valley carried out by the 1st Marine Regiment from 21 April to 16 May 1967. The object of the operation was to engage the People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN) 2nd Division.
The August Revolution (Vietnamese: Cách-mạng tháng Tám), also known as the August General Uprising (Vietnamese: Tổng khởi-nghĩa giành chính-quyền tháng Tám, lit. 'the Total uprising to seize power in August'), was a revolution launched by the Việt Minh (League for the Independence of Vietnam formed in China) against the Empire ...