Vietnam Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. means missing in action
  2. 5. Basic rifle used by US troops in Vietnam
  3. 10. Nickname for female Red Cross workers who served in Vietnam
  4. 12. Antiwar lectures in many US colleges and high schools
  5. 13. Front line US troops who had the more dangerous jobs
  6. 14. US program of counting enemy bodies to measure success or failure of missions
  7. 15. period of leave or “rest and relaxation” for US troops
  8. 16. Helicopter landing zone
  9. 18. Army nickname for Marine and Navy airmen
Down
  1. 1. fire your own forces gunfire or bombing
  2. 3. Pardon given by President Jimmy Carter in 1977
  3. 4. Ho Chi Minh leader of north Vietnam
  4. 6. US troops slang for kilometers
  5. 7. Derisive US slang term for Vietnamese
  6. 8. Term used by American troops to refer to the US
  7. 9. US attack helicopter
  8. 11. American pickup from Vietnamese, meaning “Let’s get out of here”
  9. 14. Hidden explosive device designed to injure the enemy
  10. 17. Army of the republic of south Vietnam