An Historical Study: The U.S. Army Vietnam Individual Training Group (UITG) Program, 1971-1973

Abstract

During the period from 24 February 1971 until 14 December 1972, one of the most successful Foreign Internal Defense (FID) missions was conducted by a small group of U.S. Special Forces, Australian, and New Zealand soldiers within South Vietnam. This group, never numbering more than six hundred, completely trained and equipped seventy-eight Cambodian light infantry battalions and completely retrained 40% of the maneuver battalions of the Army of South Vietnam following the 1972 Easter Offensive. This training program and lessons learned from it are detailed in this case study. The case study is built on declassified official documents, to include the final after action report of the program, and by the author's personal experiences as a member of the program during the period March-November 1972. The lessons learned from this program still apply to future Foreign Internal Defense training assistance missions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 15, 1991
Accession Number
ADA233669

Entities

People

  • Kenneth R. Bowra

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Army Training
  • Doctrine
  • Employment
  • Green Berets
  • Grenade Launchers
  • Instructions
  • Instructors
  • Leadership Training
  • Lessons Learned
  • Military Assistance
  • Military Operations
  • Military Training
  • Security
  • Students
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

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  • Library and Information Science/ Studies, Southeast Asia Studies, Bibliography of Vietnam and Lao Studies.
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