Following the Viet Cong’s Tet Offensive of January 1968, President Johnson and his political advisors debated various reserve mobilization plans, as requests for more troops poured in from Saigon. In April, the new Secretary of Defense announced the mobilization of 76 reserve component units.
Nationwide, thirty four Army Guard units with 12,234 personnel reported for active duty in May ‘68. Eight of these units, with 2,729 members, were deployed to Vietnam. An additional 4,311 were sent to the combat zone as fillers.
Thinking of home. U.S. infantry man's thoughts turn to home after reading a letter that reached him in jungle clearing near the Cambodian border in the central Vietnamese highlands. He is a member of the A Company, First Battalion 12the Infantry, Fourth Division which has been moving through the jungle mountains against North Vietnamese troops of the 325th Division for almost three months.
Credit. The Houston Chronicle.
