Military Career
Nguyen attended the 4th class of the Vietnamese National Military Academy in Da Lat, the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (USACGSC) and the U.S. Army War College (USAWC).
He served as Commanding Officer of 705th Battalion, Commanding Officer of 42nd Brigade, Commanding Officer of 14th Division and Chief of Staff of 9th Division. He also served as Chief of Staff of Vietnam's Rangers and Special Forces and participated in the Phoenix program. The program was designed to identify and "neutralize"—capture; induce to surrender; kill; or otherwise disrupt—the noncombatant infrastructure of Viet Cong (VCI) cadres who were engaged both in recruiting and training insurgents within South Vietnamese villages, as well as providing support to the North Vietnamese war effort.
Nguyen was Province Chief of Kon Tum from 1965-1970. He excelled as a Military officer in his dual role as the Sector Chief of Tuyen Duc Military District and as Mayor of the provincial capital city of Da Lat from 1970-1975.
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