Operation Farm Gate operation
also: Farm Gate, Farmgate
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Lyndon B. Johnson funded
Operation Farm Gate documented
“He favored action, but only after waiting until December to see if the Vietnamese political situation stabilized. Like Kennedy before him, LBJ accepted other recommendations involving less than maximum options. To resume the DeSoto patrols …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Presidents_ Secret Wars Chap 13 @ 42:33
John F. Kennedy ordered
Operation Farm Gate documented
“almost like they ignored him. The same day he sent Taylor and Rostow to Saigon, JFK ordered a training squadron to be operational on November 16th, 1961. It flew missions under code name Farmgate. The deployment figured in a wider expansion…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 29 (30) @ 51:31
Mentions (7)
▶ 18:53
meaning Ho Chi Minh. The unit sent was the 4400 Combat Crew Training Squadron, a special warfare jungle gym unit, which became operational November 16, 1961, which means it's basically brand new. And it flew secret air missions codenamed Fa…
▶ 19:49
Special Forces, Navy, Air Force, Marines, blah, blah, blah. Farmgate retained its clandestine status while semi-clandestine units followed. They used mule teams to fly short-range air transport and Ranch Hand, which was another code name, w…
▶ 42:33
He favored action, but only after waiting until December to see if the Vietnamese political situation stabilized. Like Kennedy before him, LBJ accepted other recommendations involving less than maximum options. To resume the DeSoto patrols …
▶ 50:17
Farmgate aircraft stationed with their flu supplies to the villages and camps and provided air support. The military advisory command wanted to give special forces their own air units. The Air Force opposed this. The command countered that …
▶ 51:31
almost like they ignored him. The same day he sent Taylor and Rostow to Saigon, JFK ordered a training squadron to be operational on November 16th, 1961. It flew missions under code name Farmgate. The deployment figured in a wider expansion…
▶ 52:02
700 to more than 12,000 by mid-1962. There were U.S. supply units to support the Vietnamese, U.S. helicopter units to fly them to battle, and special forces with Navy, Air Force, and Marine detachments. Farmgate retained its clandestine sta…
▶ 13:34
favored waiting to see if Vietnam's political situation stabilized. Johnson selected less than the maximum option, a resuming of DeSoto patrols and 34A. Reinforce farm gate with heavier jet bombers. Thus operations like DeSoto and 34A, whic…