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FORTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 
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By LTG (then COL) John H. Cushman 

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The Second Brigade Task Force of the 101st Airborne Division
General Cushman was born in Tientsin, China, son of Captain Horace O. Cushman, Fifteenth U.S. Infantry, of Danville, Illinois, and Kathleen O’Neill Cushman, of Charleston, South Carolina. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1940 and in 1944 graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. He served with the 808th Engineer Aviation Battalion in the Philippines and Japan and in 1946 joined the 38th Special Engineer Battalion at Sandia Base, New Mexico.
General Cushman earned a Masters degree in Civil Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, then attended the U.S. Army Engineer School. In 1951 he transferred to the Infantry branch, attended the Infantry School, and joined the 22d Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division, in Germany where from 1951-54 he was a battalion and regimental executive officer and battalion commander.
He was a student at the Army Command and General Staff College, then served three years on its faculty. In 1958-60 General Cushman was in the Office, Army Chief of Staff; in 1961-62 in the Office of the General Counsel of the Department of Defense; and in 1962-63, a military assistant to the Secretary of the Army.
In 1963 General Cushman became Senior Advisor to the 21st Division of the Vietnamese Army in the Vietnam Delta. In 1964-65 he attended the National War College, reporting thereafter to the 101st Airborne Division, Fort Campbell, Kentucky, where he was Director of Supply, Chief of Staff, and Commander 2d Brigade.
In December 1967, General Cushman led his brigade to Vietnam where it fought in the Tet 1968 battles around Hue. The 2d Brigade there earned the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry with Palm. He then commanded Fort Devens, Massachusetts, returning to Vietnam’s Delta in 1970 for duty as Deputy Senior Advisor, then Senior Advisor, to the Commanding General, IV Corps and Military Region 4.
In 1972-73, General Cushman commanded the 101st Airborne Division, its colors just returned from Vietnam, at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. The draft having ended, he recruited the division under the Unit of Choice program and brought it to near full readiness. In 1973-76 he commanded the Army Combined Arms Center, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and was concurrently Commandant of the Army’s Command and General Staff College.
From 1976 to 1978, General Cushman commanded I Corps (ROK/US) Group, the 250,000-strong Korean-American field army formation defending the Western Sector of Korea’s DMZ and the ap-proaches to Seoul, He retired in 1978 and since then has been a writer and consultant. He is the author of many books and articles on strategy, multiservice and multinational operations, warfare simulation, and command and control of theater forces. In 1994 he was named “author of the year” for the U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings.
January 20 - 26, 1968
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January 27 - February 3, 1968
February 4 - 10, 1968
February 11 - 17, 1968
February 18 - 25, 1968
February 24 - March 2, 1968
March 2 - 8, 1968
March 9 - 15, 1968
March 16 - 22, 1968
March 23 - 29, 1968
March 30 - April 5, 1968
April 6 - April 12, 1968
April 13 - April 19, 1968
April 20 - April 27, 1968
April 27 - May 3, 1968
May 4 - May 10, 1968
May 11 - May 17, 1968
May 18 - May 24, 1968
May 25 - May 31, 1968
June 1 - June 7, 1968
June 8 - June 28, 1968
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