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      • The entire unit of American Marines and Popular Forces militia members together was designated as a Combined Action Platoon (CAP). The program was said to have originated as a solution to one Marine infantry battalion's problem of an expanding Tactical Area of Responsibility (TAOR).
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  2. www.usmcu.edu · Outreach · Marine-Corps-UniversityThe Creation of the Marine Corps' Combined Action Platoons: A ...

    At this time, the individual platoons were called Combined Action Platoons (CAPs). The original units in Phu Bai remained the basic model for CAPs everywhere, until the program phased into totally mobile units beginning after the Tet offensive of 1968.

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  4. en.wikipedia.org · wiki · Combined_Action_ProgramCombined Action Program - Wikipedia

    The entire unit of American Marines and Popular Forces militia members together was designated as a Combined Action Platoon (CAP). The program was said to have originated as a solution to one Marine infantry battalion's problem of an expanding Tactical Area of Responsibility (TAOR).

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  6. www.usni.org · sites · defaultThe Combined Action Program: Vietnam - U.S. Naval Institute

    U.S. Army leaders wanted to search and destroy the communists in the rural and less-populated areas of South Vietnam; the Marines wanted to clear and hold the populated ar-eas. CAP was a manifestation of the strategy the Marines felt best suited the conditions in Vietnam.

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  8. www.govinfo.gov · content · pkgCOMBINED ACTION - GovInfo

    The Combined Action Program, renamed the Combined Action Force on 11 January 1970 when it became a sepa-rate command, was conceived and developed by the United States Marine Corps in the Republic of Vietnam (RVN), where the program was initiated in August 1965.* The Com-bined Action Program and its associated concepts were a

  9. cap2-7-2.com · war-stories · what-was-a-capWhat Was a CAP? - CAP 272

    Feb 2, 1999 · A Combined Action Platoon (CAP) was the basic tactical unit of the Combined Action Program of the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War. Formed as an experiment in 1965, the program proved itself effective and employed about 2,000 U.S. servicemen in 114 CAPs at its peak in 1969-70.

  10. apps.dtic.mil · sti · pdfsCOMBINED ACTION PLATOONS IN THE VIETNAM WAR: A UNIQUE ... - DTIC

    In Vietnam, the III Marine Amphibious Force used Combined Action Platoons (CAPs) as one part of its operational level counterinsurgency campaign. These platoons provided security assistance to the South Vietnamese Popular Forces and civic action to the village based population.

  11. usmccap139.com · generalCombined Action Program - CAP 1-3-9

    To work with the Popular Forces, III MAF created the combined action platoon (CAP), consisting of a 15-man Marine rifle squad composed of a squad leader, M79 grenadier, Navy corpsman, and three fire teams of four men each.

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