In response, the United States moved to provide material assistance to the new government's armed forces, which were engaged against both CPK insurgents and NVA forces. The North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces, desperate to retain their sanctuaries and supply lines from North Vietnam, immediately launched armed attacks on the new government.

In the Spring and Summer of 1967 MACV launched Operations Union and Union II with the goal of sweeping the NVA from the southern rim of the Que Son Valley.

By 15: 00 the attack had been quelled, and the NVA ended up withdrawing from the assault approximately one hour after it had been launched.

At 07: 45, the NVA launched an assault on Crack Rock, near its connection with the beleaguered Charlie Company.

At 04: 22, the NVA launched a fierce assault against Diduryk's men.

At almost 06: 30, the NVA launched yet another attack on Diduryk's men – this time in the vicinity of the company command post.

Secondly, on April 27, he launched 49th Infantry Regiment and 7th Ranger Group through the swamp lands around Đức Huệ towards the Kampuchean border, and had VNAF airplanes attack positions of 5th Division NVA units.

Between 1988 and 1992 62 rockets of the type MMR06-M were launched from the former NVA exercise area Zingst, in order to accomplish wind and temperature measurements in the upper atmosphere.

Captain Forrest had run a gauntlet all the way from the conference called by McDade back to his company when the NVA mortars started coming in.

The government made three unsuccessful attempts to enter into negotiations with the insurgents, but by 1974, the CPK were operating openly as divisions, and some of the NVA combat forces had moved into South Vietnam.

The fall of Cambodia had more complex causes but ultimately also resulted from the country being dragged into the Vietnam war, first by the Viet Cong who operated bases in the country and used it as part of the Ho Chi Minh trail, and then by full scale NVA attack, in conjunction with the Khmer Rouge, against the pro-U. S Lon Nol republic.

To make matters worse, an NVA sapper armed with explosives rushes into battalion HQ, self-detonating and killing everyone inside.

The NVA received substantial military and economic aid from the Soviet Union and China, turning Vietnam into a proxy war.

The former East German Nationale Volksarmee ( NVA ) was disbanded, with a portion of its personnel and material being absorbed into the Bundeswehr.

The Special Forces were organized into three platoons: a 14-man assault group, codenamed Blueboy, which would crash-land within the prison compound ; a 22-man support group, Greenleaf, which would provide immediate support for the assault team, and a 20-man security group, Redwine, to protect the prison area from NVA reaction forces and provide backup support if needed for either of the other two groups.

Instead, the NVA provided logistical help when Soviet troops advanced into Czechoslovakia and stood at the border ready to intervene in the event that the Soviet Army could not quell the uprising.

NVA administration was divided into the following commands:

The Pathet Lao ( PL ) leadership allowed 7 North Vietname Army ( NVA ) divisions into northeastern Laos.

Waves of NVA infantry charging into the southern lines were met by defending troops who took advantage of the aviation gasoline storage area.

The SLF regularly conducted amphibious operations across Vietnamese beaches into areas of suspected Viet Cong ( VC ) and North Vietnamese Army ( NVA ) activity.

The Battalion commences an assault on the enemy-held Hill 937 which soon grows into a major battle as un-expectedly heavy resistance is encountered and the NVA, rather than using hit-and-run tactics, are instead defending well-entrenched positions.

In 1961 the DGP was converted into a military force within the National People's Army ( Nationale Volksarmee, NVA ).

* Vietnam War, against American intervention into South Vietnam against the NLF / NVA.

Populous and rice-rich, the valley was viewed as one of the keys to controlling South Vietnam's five northern provinces by the communists and by early 1967 at least two regiments of the 2nd Division of the People ’ s Army of Vietnam ( PAVN, known to the U. S. Army as the North Vietnamese Army or NVA ) had been infiltrated into the area.

The insertion took place with intense NVA fire pouring into the LZ, and the Huey crews and newly arrived Battalion forces suffered many casualties.

Moore later credited the two gun teams with preventing the NVA from rolling up Alpha Company and driving a wedge into the battalion between Alpha and Charlie.

At 06: 50, patrols from Charlie Company's 1st Platoon ( under Lieutenant Neil Kroger ) and 2nd Platoon ( under Lieutenant John Geoghegan ) had advanced from the perimeter before coming into contact with NVA troops.

Making use of four different artillery batteries, Lund organized fire into separate concentrations along the battlefield, with devastating consequences for the waves of advancing NVA.

This plan neutralized the 66th Regiment NVA, which remained inactive in the Chư Prông area, destroyed the 32rd Regiment NVA at the ambush site, and the 32nd Regiment NVA had abandoned the siege of camp Pleime and withdrew into the surrounding jungles.

Meanwhile, a task force composing of infantry and armor of IV Corps, originating from Mộc Hóa, maneuvered across the Kampuchean border into Elephant's Foot area to threaten the retreat of 275th Regiment NVA.

The film opens with Operation Kingfisher, a disastrous American advance in the Vietnam War, and shows Lt. Terry Childers ( Samuel L. Jackson ) execute an unarmed prisoner to intimidate an NVA officer into calling off an ambush of American marines, thereby saving the life of Lt. Hays Hodges ( Tommy Lee Jones ).

For the last 3 elections, politics in Hooglede were dominated by the cartel SAMEN ( consisting of Sp. a, NVA and Open VLD ).

The NVA were now aware of the arrival of 3 / 4 Marines and the Battalion started to come under sustained small arms, machine gun and mortar fire.

At 20: 15 a reinforced NVA Company attacked Company K's position and only withdrew after 3 hours of fighting, the following morning 25 NVA bodies were found in front of the position.

2 / 4 Marines set off at dawn towards 3 / 4's position and engaged the NVA several times calling in close air strikes before linking up with 3 / 4 at 14: 45.

At 16: 00 a platoon of Marines from the 1st Force Reconnaissance Company rapelled from a MAG-16 helicopter onto the summit of the Rockpile, three hours later they spotted an NVA force to their east and called in artillery fire from 3 / 12 Marines killing 21 NVA and later that night called in further fire on suspected NVA positions south of the Rockpile.

In Helicopter Valley there was little contact with the NVA, but 3 / 4 Marines gave up trying to push south and anticipating further night attacks they established a common perimeter with 2 / 4 Marines.

With the conclusion of Operation Deckhouse II on the morning of 18 July 3 / 5 Marines would be inserted into a small valley south of the Song Ngan in a suspected NVA marshalling area, this area also provided a possible escape route for NVA retreating from 3 / 4's advance on Hill 208.

3 / 4 Marines had suffered 14 dead and 49 wounded while the NVA had suffered 138 known dead with estimates as high as 500.

On 20 July 1 / 1 Marines joined 3 / 5 Marines in the valley below the Song Ngan and they met light but persistent resistance from small groups of NVA as they patrolled to the west.

In the heavy jungle, the Cobras mistook the 3 / 187th battalion command post on the LZ for an NVA unit and attacked, killing two and wounding thirty-five, including Honeycutt.

The U. S. brigade commander ordered a coordinated two-battalion assault for May 18, with 1 / 506th attacking from the south and 3 / 187th attacking from the north, trying to keep the 29th NVA Regiment from concentrating on either battalion.

The opportunity to threaten the NVA lines facing the 3 / 187th was lost.

Shortly after the 2 / 3 ARVN completed their withdrawal, the 3 / 187th was able to break through the NVA defenses and occupy the summit, giving the illusion that American troops had conquered their objective first.