Hey Breeze—
Shitload of news here. I’m in a hootch in my own ville. How do you like that! We’re part of Operation Le Loi—Accelerated Pacification. Really it’s not new but only CAP (Combined Action Program) expanded and under a new name. It’s working as well as the old CAP program and living and working with these people is really terrific. This, to me, is what the whole thing is about. While I was on leave the NVA sprang another offensive but it failed miserably. The villagers here don’t want to have anything to do with them because of last Tet and then the May offensive. It makes my job so easy. We’re part of 4th CAG (Combined Action Group). I think 4th CAG’s plan calls for two dozen Marine rifle squads to be paired with a like number of Viet Popular Force platoons—each pair assigned to
