TABLE OF CONTENTS
| Title Page | i | |
| Foreword | ii | |
| Distribution List | iii | |
| CONTENTS: | ||
| Command Summary | 1 | |
| Chapter I - PERSONNEL | 10 | |
| Consolidation of MAAG and MACV | 10 | |
| Buildup | 14 | |
| Personnel Management | 16 | |
| US Personnel Services | 18 | |
| Advisory Effort | 22 | |
| RVNAF Manpower | 22 | |
| RVNAF Personnel Management | 26 | |
| RVNAF Personnel Services | 28 | |
| RVNAF Administration | 29 | |
| Summary | 30 | |
| Footnotes | 36 | |
| Chapter II - INTELLIGENCE | 39 | |
| Reorganization and Buildup | 39 | |
| Advisory Effort - Laying the Groundwork | 42 | |
| Tactical Efforts | 45 | |
| Air Effort | 46 | |
| Summary | 48 | |
| Footnotes | 50 | |
| Chapter III - OPERATIONS | 52 | |
| Organization and Reorganization | 52 | |
| Operational and Pacification Reporting | 53 | |
| Operational Reports | 54 | |
| Pacification Reports | 55 | |
| Force Structure Changes | 56 | |
| US Army Special Forces Buildup | 56 | |
| Retention of the USMC Helicopter Squadron in the RVN | 58 | |
| Buildup of US Army Aviation Units in the RVN | 58 | |
| Subsector Advisory Program | 59 | |
| RVNAF Buildup | 61 | |
| Summary | 62 | |
| Advisory and Combat Support Activities | 63 | |
| Advisory Activities | 63 | |
| Pacification | 64 | |
| Psywar and Military Civic Action | 69 | |
| Programs | 69 | |
| Psywar | 71 | |
| Civic Action | 78 | |
| Air Support Activities | 80 | |
| Rules of Engagement | 80 | |
| VNAF Air Support | 82 | |
| Control of US Air Resources | 85 | |
| Border Control and Surveillance | 88 | |
| Use of Chemicals | 92 | |
| Miscellaneous Projects and Programs | 96 | |
| Security of Critical Installations | 100 | |
| US Unilateral Activities | 107 | |
| Air Reconnaissance | 107 | |
| Gulf of Tonkin | 109 | |
| Air Defense | 110 | |
| Countermortar | 112 | |
| Armed Recce/Strike Operations | 113 | |
| Air Facilities | 114 | |
| Other J3 Actions | 115 | |
| Code of Conduct | 115 | |
| Helicopter Armament | 115 | |
| Buildup | 115 | |
| Training | 116 | |
| Operational Analysis | 121 | |
| The Montagnard Uprising | 122 | |
| Summary | 124 | |
| Footnotes | 129 | |
| Chapter IV - LOGISTICS | 135 | |
| Developing Logistic Systems | 135 | |
| Logistics Planning | 138 | |
| Base Development | 140 | |
| Logistics Movements | 143 | |
| Fuel Requirements | 145 | |
| Logistic Problems | 146 | |
| RVNAF Logistics | 148 | |
| Summary | 150 | |
| Footnotes | 152 | |
| Chapter V - PLANNING | 155 | |
| The US Commitment | 155 | |
| Expanding the Effort | 157 | |
| Refining the Planning Organization | 158 | |
| Countering the DRV | 160 | |
| Escalation | 161 | |
| Southeast Asia Planning | 165 | |
| Summary | 167 | |
| Footnotes | 170 | |
| Chapter VI - COMMUNICATIONS | 173 | |
| Coordination | 173 | |
| Advisory Effort | 175 | |
| Reaching the People | 176 | |
| Strategic Communications | 177 | |
| Tactical Communications | 178 | |
| Summary | 180 | |
| Footnotes | 181 | |
| TABLES | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| I. | MACV Personnel Strength | 32 | ||
| II. | MACV Award Authority | 33 | ||
| III. | RVNAF Troop Strength | 34 | ||
| IV. | Desertion Rates 1962-1964 | 35 | ||
| V. | US Aircraft Inventory, End of 1963 | 127 | ||
| VI. | US Aircraft Inventory, End of 1964 | 128 | ||
| MAPS | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| I. | Commercial Systems - Northern and Southern Toll | 182 | ||
| II. | RVN Telecommunications System | 183 | ||
| III. | Wetwash, Backporch, and Crossbow | 184 | ||
| ANNEX | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A. | Special Operations (Published Separately) | 199 | ||
| APPENDICES | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MAAG Organization Structure | 185 | ||
| 2 | US Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (1 January 1964) | 186 | ||
| 3 | US Military Assistance Command Vietnam (31 December 1964) | 187 | ||
| 4 | Key Personnel Listing | 188 | ||
| 5 | Chronology, 1964 | 189 | ||
| 6 | Glossary | 194 | ||