Natural clearings for helicopter landing zones were scarce and likely to be heavily defended. The bulk of the enemy's combat units were in the vicinity of Tchepone and [PAVN] could be expected to defend his base areas and logistics centers…
There were 9,000 Japs [Annotator's Note: a period derogatory term for Japanese] on the island. They went up on an LSD, Landing Ship Dock, which carried three LCTs [Annotator's Note: Landing Craft, Tank]. An LCT was horribly slow.
The blade is 31 inches long. The nomenclature for the sword is noncommissioned officer’s sword, model 1840. Figure F-1 shows the nomenclature for pertinent parts of the saber (sword) and scabbard.
These two conferences were build around the Nakfi deliberative model—the diverse workgroup model used by the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative.