Q. Since your arrival in "I" Corps, Dr. Fall, have you visited any of the Combined Action Companies?
A. Yes. I visited with CAC-31 over at Marble Mountain.
Q. What did you think about them, sir?
A. That's an interesting experiment. I've seen it while the French were fighting here in Viet-Nam in 1953-54. This was done very often in Korea also. We had what was called KATUSAS-Korean and American Army Troops. You have Vietnamese and Americans working side by side in the same units. Usually this works out rather well. The Americans profit from the local experience of the Vietnamese-meaning the Vietnamese know where the ambushes are, or they usually get the word fairly fast and vice versa. The Vietnamese profit from the American know-how, the military technology and the ability to get fire-power when needed.
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