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command’—-It appeared that day to day tactical decisions were being handed down by III MAF and not Division Commands and the results were confusion, delays, shoddy communications and coordination—we saw this with Harvest Moon and were about to see it again soon! The ‘Chain of Command’ for Marine Units in Viet Nam looked something like this:
The President of the United States Secretary of Defense
Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Commandant of the Marine Corps US MAC V
FMF Pacific
III MAF
Division Command
Regimental Command
Battalion Command
37@ ( quote Shulimson—USMC Historical Ctr. —see copies )
It often appeared to me that someone in the upper echelon in some office in Washington, Okinawa , Saigon or Hawaii would make decisions that directly affected those of us in the field without consideration of the actual enemy
Task Force Delta
U.S. Pacific command
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