Vietnam vocabulary

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Across
  1. 1. Missing in action
  2. 4. A period of leave, or “rest and relaxation” for U.S. troops
  3. 5. U.S. troops use of hand grenades to kill their own sergeants or officers
  4. 7. Extreme leftist anti war youth group in the U.S.
  5. 9. Refugees who fled Vietnam after the war
  6. 11. Major Vietnamese holiday
  7. 12. Students for a Democratic Society, a leftist U.S. student group that played an important role in protesting against the war
  8. 16. Large U.S. attack helicopter
  9. 17. U.S. troops slang for kilometers, measuring distance in Vietnam
  10. 20. Demilitarized zone between North and South Vietnam
Down
  1. 2. Army nickname for Marine and Navy airman
  2. 3. North Vietnamese Army, as opposed to the Vietcong
  3. 6. Derisive U.S. slang term for Vietnamese
  4. 8. Term used by American troops to refer to the U.S.
  5. 10. The lead and most dangerous position on a patrol into enemy territory
  6. 13. American pickup from Vietnamese, meaning “Let’s get out of here!”
  7. 14. U.S. Attack helicopter
  8. 15. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
  9. 18. Killed in Action
  10. 19. Helicopter landing zone