European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 30, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes we have our saturday March 30, 1968 generals9 marines complain of Vietnam chopper Gap by John m2nc.el and John t. Witiuk Licida Nanct Vietnam a some Call it the chopper mean the . Marines pioneers of helicopter warfare against guerrillas have fallen behind the army in capacity to launch and Supply Largo combat operations by air. The Marine ground com Manders who complain about this say a shortage of Heli copters and the stringent safety rules governing pilots have eos them opportunities for Victory and sometimes meant Needles Marine casualties because not enough helicopters were Avail Able. The controversy has bubbled and occasionally raged at the Middle level in the Marine com Mand for three years. Asked about it a lieutenant colonel aviator said we have put so much Money into jets we Don thave enough left for All the Heli copters we need past rivalries be tween the Navy s battleship admirals and the air Force bomber generals the office said i guess we have our Jet one Marine battalion commander says it makes him mad to hear of Marine jets inaction against North Vietnam. Senior officers in the 1st Marine air Wing which controls the leathernecks air Effort i Vietnam say their mixture of choppers jets and transports i fixed under the Basic Marine role developed in world War Calls for assaulting Beach to acts pushing Inland to secure them and then turning the whole thing Over to the , the army has largely overhauled its traditionally Road bound units to fight the Vietnam 1962 the marines had a Squadron of 1134 helicopters inthe Mekong Delta while the army struggled along with the Clumsy outmoded 1121 flying banana. Then the army switched to the modern Huey and rapidly spawned aviation companies and battalions with the fast troop transports an gunships. When the marines came ashore in 1965 their Basic Heli copter was still the 1134, by now older and less capable than the modern Huey. They had no gunships. Today the h34 is still the largest part of the Marine chop per inventory although the marines say the hard hitting Huey cobras will be added soon. At the present the Marine shave about 300 of their own Heli copters to serve nearly three divisions in the Northern prov inces. The army s 1st air Cav div operating in the same area counts 425 choppers. It is die most Mobile unit in the War and fills a role the marines conceived during the korean War. In the category of fast hitting helicopter assaults the marines recently were averaging one every Day or two often with Viet namese troops. The 1st Cav averages two assaults per operational battalion a Day. Even conventional army units fare far better than the marines. In Iii corps there Are about 1,000 helicopters to Han dle the needs of less than . Army divisions plus Viet namese troops. Montr h the key reason fors at they Call the deficiency j Marine choppers. One Marine infantry general null of years the corps has teen for View to cot Corners Ami show we can provide the Best Marine ground officers say team concept. Fighting unit for the least Money it has t paid off i m afraid and i doubt if we have Ini pressed Many Middle level air officers con tend More Money would be available for helicopters if the Marine air brass would shift priorities away from jets. The top level argument is that jets Are needed to soften up the each for the marines and then stay with them once they have foothold. They say air Force and Navy jets would not be a suitable in part because of the intricate Marine or ground new combat fatigue affects mind and body general discussion Gen. Creighton , Deputy to Gen. William Westmore land in Vietnam confers with president Johnson and other top officials in he Rose Garden at the White House. Abrams who made a Hur ried visit to Washington is regarded As a Likely successor to Westmoreland when he leave Vietnam to become army chief of staff. A Saigon up two .army mental health specialists thursday reported discovery Ofa new kind of combat fatigue a disturbance Peculiar to the Vietnam War called combat the malady is directly related to How Long a Soldier has been in Vietnam said it. Col. Robert l. Petera of Taroma. Wash., and capt. Basil m. Johnson of Wichita Kan. Pkt Fiu is resident Psychia Trist of the i a. 9th inf div at Long Hanh and Johnson i division social worker. They Rem red their findings in an Asyet unpublished paper entitled psychiatric management of combat reactions with a Typha Sis on combat the disturbance is the result of repeated exposure to psycho logically shocking events an develops after a Long period the doctors said. While conventional combat fatigue is almost entirely a psychological disturbance com site body Bat neurosis affiant the mind. The symptoms arc inability to sleep anxiety an a Guji tand physical discomfort so re enough to produce vomiting and diarrhoea. Petera and thought it was significant that nearly of Vietnam. Noted a m months a Lone. Should fl�4 ivies i Minneapolis returning if Fol arms m i n n e a p 0 l i s Dpi mayor Arthur n a f t a 1 i n said thursday the Point in civil disorder is to end it riot kill and ordered his police chief to Send 10 recently procured ah15 automatic weapons Back to the manufacturer. ? fire tin i Xico ii v i i d Sergio Cha a 17, told police he asked a passer by for a cigarette wednesday. " Iod gave us noses to breathe with and not use As h i in the passerby s Aid then pulled out a pistol and shot Claey chit c times have was reported in serious condition. Our police should be a defensive Force Naftalin said. The nature of the police Force is the cop on the beat or the cop investigating not group Naftalin approved a requisition from police chief Calvin Ilaw Kinson Hist May for procurement of chemical Mace Aspray that incapacitated a person on Contact riot and ah15 rifles to 10 Thompson sub guns in the. Police mass destruction weapons such As automatic rifles machine guns and tanks. Weapons which Are designed to destroy not to control have no place in densely populated Urban acquisition of the ar15.s was counter productive Naftali said. I will ask the police department to Rashidy the need Memphis Tenn. Police there used chemical Mace clubs and tear Kas against rioters. Also Amonjr weapons carried by b1., f la left j Olive in the Southern City were unlike the Engin i. _._-, every Soldier from combat n in combat in months. Those suffering neurosis worry they will make rest of their the research. Dependence on a of combat occurring 1 11 months. I would i Petera that if tour of duty were Lon but say. Is patients Suff Enir. For combat neurosis would expel Simi Lar anxiety within tvo to three months of the end of lie tour not it 10 won ii i.-. At 1? Inid loin psychological read i. Bat in three traditional Eon i such As that sufi i War ii and Korea combat Neuron fenced in Vietnam several types anti tie the anxiety f i Vietnam is in Len in the guerrilla pm inv shadowy i or ii a Xor Dier in Sains i id shotguns. Ii the doctors replace Machin Arsenal. A did not know now the mayor to revers know Tun what i Naftalin said. Said his decision his approval of the rules was based on his Reading of a report by the National and us by commission on Roi Sci. Jov Oli the k Edel. Header i report Coridi Nin civil by Illinois Sahl the Iuo is to a it i and to request Mich a would provide the department Ith proper Capal Mility and by Igor appropriate for police Sork he said. 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