Here's a story about a ROK Army division, not ROK Marines. But its still a great story.
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He had found the enemy -now they found him. Rocket-propelled grenades tore into the sandbags and they toppled in a heave of dirt. To infantrymen of many countries, it would have been time to move out briskly -find something larger and more solid. Not to Hong; he had been taught at the Non San Training Camp in Seoul that a soldier held his position or died in it. Professional reflex told him to hit the prone and keep firing. He did.
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The French lost it in their Indochina War -and the rusted wrecks of the 100th Mobile Group were cleared only a few years ago.
Not this time. The ROKs rewrote history. The pass held in a piecemeal, meat-grinder battle that lasted for 16 days and according to ROK figures, resulted in 705 North Vietnamese killed and 41 of their own.
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Nothing was cheap or easy. Gen. Chang Duk Man, the division commander, told newsmen that 13 ROK companies were committed in the battle. They had occupied only one knob on the hill and had to make a tortuous advance over a long saddle to take another rise seized by the North Vietnamese who must have been elite -many sported green berets.
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