Operation This-or-That

Invasion of Laos by South Vietnamese forces

Invasion of Cambodia to attack NVA sanctuaries

B-52 bomber defense of Khe Sanh

Supply distribution from facilities at Cam Rahn Bay

Missions to drive VC in large scale ambushes

Efforts to protect troops on patrol from wildlife

Interdiction of VC supplies in Mekong Delta area

Moving villagers into protected areas

Efforts to better predict monsoon storms that affected bombing missions

Bombing campaign against North Vietnam ordered by President Johnson

A series of Bob Hope shows with a hard rock band from the US

Multiple artillery barrages on pre-selected targets

Air and artillery defense of Khe Sanh during the TET Offensive

Riverine efforts to interdict VC supplies moving down rivers and canals

Naval missions to harass North Vietnamese coastal installations

Efforts to fight sexual diseases in GI frequented brothels

A pacification effort in the villages of South Vietnam

Clearing VC from small towns after the TET offensive

An effort to push the VC out of the Iron Triangle

Navy SEAL operation at the Michellin rubber plantation

Air Force program of doing quickly paced bombing missions on the same target

Efforts to come up behind NVA troops coming down the Ho Chi Minh Trail

Clearing of US mines from Vietnam's waterways by the US Navy

Stopping draft dodgers heading for Canada

The incursion of Cambodia by US and ARVN forces

A special forces effort to snatch high ranking NVA officers

An army effort to destroy the VC tunnels at Cu Chi

A military police effort to shut down the 42 worst brothels in Saigon

G.I. slang for what happened in the officer latrines

Ongoing effort to improve weather prediction for pilots

Evacuation of Americans from Saigon in April 1975

Bombing missions in Cambodia in support of the US and ARVN invasion

Large scale effort to drive VC into ambush sites

Air Force defoliation efforts using Agent Orange

Clearing vegetation around US bases with large plows

Special Forces reconnaissance of the Ho Chi Minh Trail

Development program to develop night vision googles

A 1965 Marine effort to destroy a VC regiment in Quang Tri Province

Training troops to navigate by stars

Night time aerial reconnaissance

An operation that set a three prong trap for the VC in the Mekong Delta

An interdiction effort along the Ho Chi Minh Trail in the Laos panhandle

An effort to increase security around US airbases

A test of new artillery beehive (flechette) munitions

The development of an all-weather fighter-bomber

A 1972 mission to locate some POWs that supposedly escaped from a prison near Hanoi

Efforts to develop better waether prediction

Massive B-52 raids on suspect NVA staging areas

The return of US prisoners of war

Medical check-ups of returning GIs by local VA hospitals

Ticker tape parades in New York City after the war ended

Activities by anti-war protesters to harrass returning troops

Effort to harass NVA base areas in the A Shau

Training rotation for returning troops in cold weather combat in the Colorado Mountains

A Laos covert intelligence gathering by an all Native American Special Forces team

This was not a real operation

Removing young and inexperienced soldiers from line units

Effort to provide military transportation for orphanages affected by US bombing

Evacuation of 2000 orphans to the US for adoption

Effort to hold US soldiers financially responsible for their Amerasian children