PHOENIX PROGRAM - US Military Token / Coin - CORDS CLUB - Vietnam War - 5393

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RARE - US MILITARY - Issue Coin / Token. Vietnam War
CORDS CLUB - Field Force II - Long Binh - Saigon
50c - Phoenix Program - Extra Rare Piece
Vietnam War Token - Extremely Rare
Cords Club
CORDS (Civil Operations and Rural Development Support) was a pacification program of the governments of South Vietnam and the United States during the Vietnam War. It was charged with co-ordination of the Pheonix Program.
The program was created on 9 May 1967, and included military and civilian components of both governments. The objective of CORDS was to gain support for the government of South Vietnam from its rural population which was largely under the influence or controlled by the insurgent communist forces of the Viet Cong (VC) and the North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN).
Field Force II
II Field Force, Field Force II, FF II Vietnam was a United States Army Corps-level command during the Vietnam War.
Activated on 15 March 1966, it became the largest corps command in Vietnam and one of the largest in Army history.
II Field Force was assigned the lineage of the XXII Corps, a World War II corps in the European Theater of Operations. II Field Force was a component of U.S. Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV) and had its headquarters in Long Binh and Saigon.
Phoenix Program
Operation Phoenix became official in 1968 however existed for years before that - Operation Phoenix was instigated by the CIA with an aim to, ' destabalize, neutralize, capture and kill ' members of an organization the CIA called the VCI (Viet Cong Infrastructure ).
The program was designed to disrupt any civilian activity that supported the VC south of the DMZ - this included people that supplied guides, foods, storage dumps, people who helped with conscription to the VC.
The Central Intelligence Agency turned the Operation over to the US Army and the ARVN in 1968 and continued to operate until 1972.
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