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They served with indigenous soldiers selected and trained through the civilian irregular defense group cidg and were led by american sf and australian sas. Of united states army special forces in the vietnam war. See more ideas about patches, vietnam and vietnam war. This was especially true of the army of the rapublic of vietnam arvn.
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Uniforms, headgear, and equipment of the vietnam war. This force of about 3,000 soldiers would be outnumbered 6 to 1 by. Originally called tunnel runners by the 25th infantry division, and ferrets by the australian army, the term tunnel rat became the official accepted name during the vietnam war for men who would descend into a pitch black, claustrophobic, dank hell, to play a. Arvn abbreviation stands for army of the republic of vietnam. The longestserving commander was lieutenant general le nguyen khang.
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