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FIRST TEAM MAGAZINE
Summer 1970
FIRST IN CAMBODIA
by SSG Ron Renouf

Part 4

Captured or destroyed were 5,562 individual weapons, 906 crew served weapons, more than 1,636 tons of rice, more than 6 million rounds of small caliber ammo, and 40,875 large caliber rounds. 123 Americans had been killed and 366 wounded.

High ranking military officials estimated it would take the enemy months, perhaps more than a year to recover from these losses.

The time bought and paid for by Skyroopers would, according to President Nixon, "permit the Vietnamization Program to forge ahead, unimpeded. By the time the enemy forces are able to rebuild, if they do,  the Vietnamese Army will be strong enough to handle  the situation by itself, enabling us to continue withdrawing our soldiers from Vietnam."
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Skytroopers have added another chapter, not only to the 1st Air Cav's history, but perhaps to the history of the world in the United States' continued quest for a just and honorable peace in the Republic of Vietnam

FIRST IN CAMBODIA PART 1            FIRST IN CAMBODIA PART 2        FIRST IN CAMBODIA PART 3

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