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A secondary section of the Ho Chi Minh Trail in the backcountry of Ta Oey District. Image by George Black. Laos, 2019.
It was a blazing-hot morning in October 2019 on the old Ho Chi Minh Trail, an intricate web of truck roads and secret paths that wove its way across the densely forested and mountainous border between Vietnam and Laos. Susan Hammond, Jacquelyn Chagnon and Niphaphone Sengthong forded a rocky stream along the trail and came to a village of about 400 people called Labeng-Khok, once the site of a logistics base inside Laos used by the North Vietnamese Army to infiltrate troops into the South. In one of the bamboo-and-thatch stilt houses, the ladder to the living quarters was made from metal tubes that formerly held American cluster bombs. The family had a 4-year-old boy named Suk, who had difficulty sitting, standing and walking one of three children in the extended family with birth defects. A cousin was born mute and did not learn to walk unti
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During the Vietnam War, US commandos developed an insertion and extraction method that is still used today.
Now, with conflict in Southeast or East Asia a growing prospect, its an increasingly relevant but still risky method.
During the Vietnam War, American commandos developed an insertion and extraction method for operations in the jungle that is still used by today s special operators.
The Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction (SPIE) system is designed for small special-operations teams that operate in areas where an enemy presence or the terrain prevents helicopters from landing.
The SPIE technique hasn t been used operationally for decades, in part because US air superiority and lackluster enemy anti-aircraft capabilities have meant it wasn t needed.