Devil's Guard- The Complete Series Box Set by Eric Meyer

Author:Eric Meyer [Meyer, Eric]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Goodreads: 35402531
Publisher: Swordworks
Published: 2017-06-27T23:00:00+00:00

“No problem at all,” I smiled and shook hands with them. “What’s up at Lang Vei, why are you taking so much equipment up there?”

They both looked at me suspiciously. Then one of them said in a friendly way, “I guess if you’re flying us up there you’ll know soon enough anyway. It’s a CIDG camp we’re setting up near a village called Khe Sanh.”

I’d never heard of Khe Sanh, but we had all heard about the Civilian Irregular Defense Group programme. It was a programme developed by the United States to develop South Vietnamese irregular military units from the minority populations. It had been devised by the CIA in early 1961 to counter expanding Viet Cong influence in South Vietnam's Central Highlands. Beginning in the village of Buon Enao, small Special Forces A teams moved into villages and set up Area Development Centres. Focusing on local defence and civic action, the Special Forces teams did the majority of the training. Villagers were trained and armed for village defence for two weeks, while localised Strike Forces would receive better training and weapons and served as a quick reaction force to react to Viet Cong attacks. The vast majority of the CIDG camps were initially manned by inhabitants of ethnic minority regions in the country especially Montagnards, who disliked both the North and South Vietnamese and therefore quickly took to the American advisors.

I nodded and went to supervise the loading. Paul was already at work lashing down the crates, I told him about the CIDG camp we were headed for.

“Let’s hope it works, this CIDG programme, he said gloomily. “From what I’ve seen the locals will just sell their arms and equipment to the VCs.”

I laughed, it wasn’t entirely fair, from what I’d heard and encountered the CIDG programme was proving to be quite successful, even though it was unlikely that there would ever be enough recruits to fully counter the Viet Cong who had limitless numbers of ethnic Viet peasants from which to recruit. Unlike the fortified hamlets scheme which appeared to have exactly the opposite effect and did little or nothing to deter the communists. While the loading was going on, Johann finished fuelling the aircraft. When he was finished he came with me for the pre-flight inspection.

“Will you be back tonight?” he asked me.

I shook my head. “It’s not likely, Lang Vei is fairly new, there won’t be any lights for us to attempt a night take off, so we’ll leave at first light, we’ll be back late morning. Johann, things are not getting any better here, would you mind if I sent Helene to sleep here in the hangar with you?”

He looked surprised. “In the same bed?”

I felt my anger rising, then saw the grin on his face. I gave him a friendly punch. “Schweinhund! But it’s much easier to defend here than our bungalow.”

“Of course, send her over, I’ll look after her.”

When I went back to the bungalow, Helene almost spat fire at me for suggesting

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