Vietnam War
On September 19, 1965 – Departed Fort Dix on a permanent change of station and arrived in Vietnam for the Vietnam War. On October 15, 1968, it was inactivated at Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam.
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Famous quotes containing the words vietnam and/or war:
“No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.”
—Richard M. Nixon (b. 1913)
“Then think I thus: sith such repair,
So long time war of valiant men,
Was all to win a lady fair,
Shall I not learn to suffer then,
And think my life well spent to be,
Serving a worthier wight than she?”
—Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey (1517?–1547)