PROJECTS,
PROGRAMS
AND
OPERATIONS
|
Code
Name |
Command |
Unit |
Time
Frame |
Comments |
|
Proud
Deep |
Combined |
|
Dec
71 |
Largest
series of Air strikes against NVN since the bombing halt in 68 |
|
Quail |
|
OSS |
1945 |
"Mercy
Mission". U.S. team parachuting into Hanoi to protect POWs from Jap
guards at end of WW II |
|
Quick
Speak |
USAF
(A/C) |
5
ACS |
Aug
65 |
16
C-47 and U-10s equipped with loudspeakers and leaflet chutes.
Directed by JUSPAO |
|
Rain
Dance |
USAF |
|
17
Mar 69 |
First
US B-52 bombing campaign against PDJ |
|
Ranch
Hand |
USAF |
|
|
UC-123
defoliation and herbicide operations |
|
Rapid
Fire |
SF |
|
|
|
|
Red
Haze |
Army |
|
May
1965 |
OV-1C
Mohawks equipped with infared equip, escorted by armed OV-1As for Steel
Tiger recce |
| Red Horse | USAF | Rapid Engineering Deployment and Heavy Operational Repair Squadron, Engineering | ||
|
Rivet
Clamp |
USAF |
|
Jul
66 - Jun 67 |
Project
for UW C-130E Stray Goose Modifications |
|
USAF |
|
1966 |
B-52
strikes on targets in the Mu Gia Pass AO on the border of NVN and Laos |
|
|
Rolling
Thunder |
Combined |
|
2
Mar 65 - Oct 68 |
Sustained
incremental bombing campaign of NVN, auth LBJ 12 Feb 65 "a measured
and limited air action" |
|
Salem
House |
SF |
|
1Dec
68 |
Cambodia
cross border ops, renamed from Daniel Boone |
| Saw Buck | USAF | Tactical Air Command composite air strike force deployments to Vietnam in mid-1962 and afterward. Also the nickname of the C-123 detachment deployed to Vietnam in mid 1962 | ||
| SEA Airlift System | USAF | A special, high priority airlift system to Southeast Asia | ||
|
Sea
Dragon |
Navy |
|
Mar
65 |
Prepare
Battle Ship New Jersey for deployment to VN |
|
Sea
Dragon |
Navy |
|
|
Naval
gunfire ops against NVN |
| SEATO Medical Research Lab | Army | 1964 | Group from Walter Reed Army Research Institute doing Medical Research throughout SEA | |
| Seed Joy | USAF | A program to modify the Bullpup for the flak-suppression mission | ||
|
Senior
Book |
USAF |
4080
SRW |
Oct
64 |
U-2
program with DC-130 launched AMQ-34 Firebee I drones |
|
Shed
Light |
USAF |
|
|
Overall
pgm to improve night interdiction/attack capability |
|
Shinning
Brass |
SF |
|
|
Project
to insert roadwatch teams along the HCM trail in Laos |
|
Shock |
USAF |
|
|
Embassy/USAF
pgm to attack targets provided by roadwatch teams in Laos |
|
SIGMA |
SF |
|
|
Cross-border ops in Cambodia |
|
Silver
Bayonet |
Army |
|
Nov
65 |
Ia
Drang Valley Campaign. It
was found that the Army required TAC Airlift assets for large ops |
|
Singer |
Navy |
|
|
Code
Word for missile warning equipment.
"Singer Low" - Alert,
"Singer High" -
Missile in the Air |
|
Sixteen
Buck |
Air
Commando |
4
ACS |
Nov
65 |
Initial
Air Commando Squadron deployment to RVN |
| Skoshi Tiger | USAF | Combat evaluation of the F-5 | ||
|
SLAM |
Combined |
|
7
Oct 66 |
Select,
Locate, Annihilate, Monitor - special expanded Shinning Brass pgm using
US led ARVN ground teams and AF tactical and B-52 a/c |
|
Southpaw |
MACV |
|
1967 |
Plan
to recruit and train 3000 Kha tribesmen for large (Div) scale ground ops
against HCM trail |
|
Spike
Teams |
SF |
|
3
Oct 66 |
New
code name for Shinning Brass teams |
|
Spotlight
Report |
USAF |
|
|
Igloo
White sensor data recieved by TFA |
|
USAF
/ Combined |
|
3
Apr 65 |
Air
Interdiction pgm in southern Laso |
|
|
Steve
Canyon |
USAF
|
|
5
May 66 |
Raven
program, attached to Water Pump, Project 404, after Oct 70, became part
of Palace Dog program |
|
Stony
Beach |
DIA |
|
|
DIA
MIA office in Bangkok |
|
STRATA |
SF |
|
|
Short
term recon and target acquisition teams, Laos |
|
Stray
Goose |
USAF |
|
1966 |
Specially
modified UC-130E, later MC-130E and C-130(I) for use with Special
Operations Forces and missions |
| Surprise Package | USAF | AC-130A | 1969 | |
|
USAF |
|
20
Jul 66 |
Air
interdiction pgm above DMZ using Tiger Hound a/c and personnel |
|
|
Task
Force Alpha |
USAF |
|
|
Org
that built and operated the Igloo White infiltration and surveillance
center at NKP |
|
Thot
Not |
SF |
|
8
Apr 71 |
Cambodian
cross border ops, renamed from Salem House |
|
Tiger
Cub |
USAF |
|
1
Mar 65 |
4252
Strategic Wing Det at Don Muang |
|
USAF |
|
5
Dec 65 |
Interdiction
pgm in southeastern most Laos |
|
|
Trojan
Horse |
UFAF |
|
|
SAC
recon |
|
Tropic
Moon |
USAF |
|
1966 |
B-57G
night intruder project, also installed on 2 A-1Es |
| Turnkey | USAF | 1966 | A USAF base construction concept that did not require Army or Nay resources. Construction of a complete base was contracted for as an entire package instead of the piecemeal approach formerly used. The project was operated through the 7th AF Director of Civil Engineering, who was designated Program Director | |
| Two Buck | USAF | Apr 4, 1965 | Deployment of fighter, reconnaissance, and airlift forces to SEA | |
|
United
Effort |
USAF |
55
SRW |
|
ERB-47,
w/ Ryan AMQ-34 Firebee1drones, TSN |
| Water Glass | USAF | Rotational deployments of F-102 aircraft to Tan Son Nhut for air defense | ||
|
Water
Pump |
USAF |
Det 6, 1st ACWg |
1
Apr 64 |
AF
training Det at Udorn to train Lao AF and Thai AF personnel. |
|
White
Star |
SF |
|
May
01, 1965 |
Special
Forces Mobil Training Teams in Laos |
| Wild Weasel | USAF | Aircraft specially modified to identify, locate and suppress or destroy enemy ground based air defense systems that employ radar. Used to attack SAM sites. | ||
|
Yankee
Station |
Navy |
|
|
CTG
77, Navy AL located off NVN, in the Gulf of Tonkin: 16N/110E |
|
Yankee
Team |
USAF |
|
May
1964-Jun 65 |
Armed
escort for Recon flights over Laos. AF lst mission under JCS directive,
"during the daylight hours of
19 May. |
|
Young
Tiger |
USAF |
|
1
Mar 65 |
4252
Strategic Wg took over aerial refueling from Foreign Legion Tanker Force |
Updated: 04/03/04
