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I just finished the book Matterhorn, and like other accounts of Vietnam I've read, it portrays US units as being essentially permanently deployed to the front. Rather than entire units being pulled out of the line to rest and refit, individual soldiers are granted leave or are sent home based on time-in-service. There is thus a constant churn of reinforcements, but the unit as a whole never or rarely leaves the line of contact
Is this actually how US units were deployed during Vietnam? If so, was this approach a good idea or a mistake (compared to WW1 for example, where units rarely spent more than a week or two in frontal trenches before being rotated to secondary or reserve positions)
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