9 Things the Army Gave Its Grunts in Vietnam That Marines Never Got

The PX that sold everything, base camps with power and movie screens, the three-day stand-down, helicopters that brought the mail, division gunships, hot showers and clean fatigues, a twelve-month tour, and the support organization behind all of it. What the Army had in Vietnam, what the Marines on the hills went without, and what the Corps gave its men instead. Sources: - Jack Shulimson and Charles M. Johnson, U.S. Marines in Vietnam: The Landing and the Buildup, 1965 (History and Museums Division, Headquarters U.S. Marine Corps, 1978) - U.S. Army Center of Military History, Vietnam Studies series (Airmobility 1961-1971 by John J. Tolson; Logistic Support by Joseph M. Heiser Jr.) - Accounts from Army and Marine veterans of the Vietnam War