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Lima Site 85, the Glossary

Lima Site 85 (LS-85 alphanumeric code of the phonetic 1st letter used to conceal this covert operation) was a clandestine military installation in the Royal Kingdom of Laos guarded by the Hmong "Secret Army", the Central Intelligence Agency, and the United States Air Force used for Vietnam War covert operations against communist targets in ostensibly neutral Laos under attack by the Vietnam People's Army.^[1]

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1967 establishments in Laos
1968 disestablishments in Laos
Military deception
Military history of Laos during the Vietnam War
Military installations closed in 1968
Military installations established in 1967
Military installations of the United States in Laos

Air America (airline)

Air America was an American passenger and cargo airline established in 1946 and covertly owned and operated by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 1950 to 1976.

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Battle of Lima Site 85

The Battle of Lima Site 85, also called Battle of Phou Pha Thi, was fought as part of a military campaign waged during the Vietnam War and Laotian Civil War by the North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and the Pathet Lao, against airmen of the United States Air Force (USAF)'s 1st Combat Evaluation Group, elements of the Royal Lao Army, Royal Thai Border Patrol Police, and the CIA-led Hmong Clandestine Army.

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Battles of Nakhang

The Battles of Nakhang (16 February 1966–28 February 1969) were fought between Royalist forces and North Vietnamese invaders for control of the northern base of Nakhang, Laos.

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Boeing B-52 Stratofortress

The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is an American long-range, subsonic, jet-powered strategic bomber.

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Boeing C-135 Stratolifter

The Boeing C-135 Stratolifter is a transport aircraft derived from the prototype Boeing 367-80 jet airlinerJane's all the World's Aircraft 1963–1964.

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Boeing CH-47 Chinook

The Boeing CH-47 Chinook is a tandem-rotor helicopter originally developed by American rotorcraft company Vertol and now manufactured by Boeing Defense, Space & Security.

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Bomb damage assessment

Bomb damage assessment (BDA), also known as battle damage assessment, is the practice of assessing damage inflicted on a target from a stand-off weapon, most typically a bomb or air launched missile.

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Bryan Air Force Base

Bryan Air Force Base is a former United States Air Force base in unincorporated Brazos County, Texas, located west of Bryan.

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Call sign

In broadcasting and radio communications, a call sign (also known as a call name or call letters—and historically as a call signal—or abbreviated as a call) is a unique identifier for a transmitter station.

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Cassegrain antenna

In telecommunications and radar, a Cassegrain antenna is a parabolic antenna in which the feed antenna is mounted at or behind the surface of the concave main parabolic reflector dish and is aimed at a smaller convex secondary reflector suspended in front of the primary reflector.

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Central Intelligence Agency

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), known informally as the Agency, metonymously as Langley and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and conducting covert action through its Directorate of Operations.

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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) is the presiding officer of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS).

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Chief master sergeant

A chief master sergeant is the military rank for a senior non-commissioned officer in the armed forces of some countries.

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Clark Air Base

Clark Air Base is a Philippine Air Force base on Luzon Island in the Philippines, located west of Angeles City, and about northwest of Metro Manila.

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Combat Skyspot

Combat Skyspot was the ground-directed bombing (GDB) operation of the Vietnam War by the United States Air Force using Bomb Directing Centrals and by the United States Marine Corps using Course Directing Centrals ("MSQ-77 and TPQ-10 ground radars").

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Command and control

Command and control (abbr. C2) is a "set of organizational and technical attributes and processes...

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Command guidance

Command guidance is a type of missile guidance in which a ground station or aircraft relay signals to a guided missile via radio control or through a wire connecting the missile to the launcher and tell the missile where to steer to intercept its target.

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Continental Airlines

Continental Airlines (simply known as Continental) was a major airline in the United States that operated from 1934 until it merged with United Airlines in 2012.

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Covert operation

A covert operation or undercover operation is a military or police operation involving a covert agent or troops acting under an assumed cover to conceal the identity of the party responsible.

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Earle Wheeler

Earle Gilmore Wheeler (January 13, 1908 – December 18, 1975), nicknamed Bus, was a United States Army general who served as the chief of Staff of the United States Army from 1962 to 1964 and then as the sixth chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1964–1970), holding the latter position during the Vietnam War.

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Electronic counter-countermeasure

Electronic counter-countermeasures (ECCM) is a part of electronic warfare which includes a variety of practices which attempt to reduce or eliminate the effect of electronic countermeasures (ECM) on electronic sensors aboard vehicles, ships and aircraft and weapons such as missiles.

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Electronic countermeasure

An electronic countermeasure (ECM) is an electrical or electronic device designed to trick or deceive radar, sonar, or other detection systems, like infrared (IR) or lasers.

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Fairchild C-123 Provider

The Fairchild C-123 Provider is an American military transport aircraft designed by Chase Aircraft and built by Fairchild Aircraft for the U.S. Air Force.

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Ground-directed bombing

Ground-directed bombing (GDB) is a military tactic for airstrikes by ground-attack aircraft, strategic bombers, and other equipped air vehicles under command guidance from aviation ground support equipment and/or ground personnel (e.g., ground observers).

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Gulf of Tonkin

The Gulf of Tonkin is a gulf at the northwestern portion of the South China Sea, located off the coasts of Tonkin (northern Vietnam) and South China.

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Hmong people

The Hmong people (RPA: Hmoob, Nyiakeng Puachue:, Pahawh Hmong) are an indigenous group in East Asia and Southeast Asia.

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Houaphanh province

Houaphanh province (ຫົວພັນ,, Romanization of Lao: Houaphan also Huaphan) is a province in eastern Laos.

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Identification friend or foe

Identification, friend or foe (IFF) is a combat identification system designed for command and control.

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John C. Giraudo

John Charles Giraudo (October 2, 1923 – June 17, 1996) was a highly decorated United States Air Force major general.

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Kingdom of Laos

The Kingdom of Laos was the form of government in Laos from 1947 to 1975.

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Laos

Laos, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic (LPDR), is the only landlocked country and one of the two Marxist-Leninist states in Southeast Asia.

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List of covert sites of the Laotian Civil War

Covert sites of the Laotian Civil War were clandestine U.S. military installations for conducting covert paramilitary and combat operations in the Kingdom of Laos.

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Lockheed EC-121 Warning Star

The Lockheed EC-121 Warning Star was an American airborne early warning and control radar surveillance aircraft operational in the 1950s in both the United States Navy (USN) and United States Air Force (USAF).

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M16 rifle

The M16 rifle (officially designated Rifle, Caliber 5.56 mm, M16) is a family of assault rifles adapted from the ArmaLite AR-15 rifle for the United States military.

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Matagorda Island Air Force Base

Matagorda Island Air Force Base is a closed military airfield on the north end of Matagorda Island, northeast of Corpus Christi, Texas.

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McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II

The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II is an American tandem two-seat, twin-engine, all-weather, long-range supersonic jet interceptor and fighter-bomber originally developed by McDonnell Aircraft for the United States Navy.

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Medal of Honor

The Medal of Honor (MOH) is the United States Armed Forces' highest military decoration and is awarded to recognize American soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen, guardians, and coast guardsmen who have distinguished themselves by acts of valor.

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Mikoyan

Russian Aircraft Corporation "MiG" (Rossiyskaya samolyotostroitel'naya korporatsiya "MiG"), commonly known as Mikoyan and MiG, is a Russian aerospace and defence company headquartered in Begovoy District, Moscow.

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Muang Phalan TACAN Site

Muang Phalan TACAN Site (also known as Lima 61 Alternative or L-61A) was a U.S. Air Force facility built in the village of Muang Phalan, Laos, during the Vietnam War. Lima Site 85 and Muang Phalan TACAN Site are military installations of the United States in Laos.

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National Museum of the United States Air Force

The National Museum of the United States Air Force (formerly the United States Air Force Museum) is the official museum of the United States Air Force located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, northeast of Dayton, Ohio.

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NATO phonetic alphabet

The International Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet or simply Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet, commonly known as the NATO phonetic alphabet, is the most widely used set of clear-code words for communicating the letters of the Roman alphabet.

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North Vietnamese invasion of Laos

North Vietnam supported the Pathet Lao to fight against the Kingdom of Laos between 1958 and 1959.

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Operation Arc Light

During Operation Arc Light (sometimes Arclight) from 1965 to 1973, the United States Air Force deployed B-52 Stratofortresses from bases in the U.S. Territory of Guam to provide battlefield air interdiction during the Vietnam War.

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Operation Barrel Roll

Operation Barrel Roll was a covert U.S. Air Force 2nd Air Division and U.S. Navy Task Force 77, interdiction and close air support campaign conducted in the Kingdom of Laos between 5 March 1964 and 29 March 1973 concurrent with the Vietnam War.

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Operation Menu was a covert United States Strategic Air Command (SAC) tactical bombing campaign conducted in eastern Cambodia from 18 March 1969 to 26 May 1970 as part of both the Vietnam War and the Cambodian Civil War.

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Operation Pony Express

Operation Pony Express was the covert transportation of, and the provision of aerial support for, indigenous soldiers and material operating across the Laotian and North Vietnamese borders during the Vietnam War.

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Pathet Lao

The Pathet Lao (translation), officially the Lao People's Liberation Army, was a communist political movement and organization in Laos, formed in the mid-20th century.

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People's Army of Vietnam

The People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN), officially the Vietnam People's Army (VPA; of Vietnam), also recognized as the Vietnamese Army (lit) or the People's Army (Quân đội Nhân dân), is the national military force of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the armed wing of the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV).

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Phúc Yên Air Base

Phúc Yên Air Base (also known as Noi Bai Air Base) is a Vietnam People's Air Force (VPAF) (Không quân Nhân dân Việt Nam) military airfield located immediately north of Noi Bai International Airport and approximately north of Hanoi.

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Prefabricated home

Prefabricated homes, often referred to as prefab homes or simply prefabs, are specialist dwelling types of prefabricated building, which are manufactured off-site in advance, usually in standard sections that can be easily shipped and assembled.

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Reeves AN/MSQ-77 Bomb Directing Central

The Reeves AN/MSQ-77 Bomb Directing Central, Radar (nickname "Miscue 77") was a United States Air Force automatic tracking radar/computer system for command guidance of aircraft.

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Reeves Instrument Corporation

Reeves Instrument Corporation (RICO) was a Cold War manufacturer of computer and radar systems for the United States.

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Repeater

In telecommunications, a repeater is an electronic device that receives a signal and retransmits it.

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Republic F-105 Thunderchief

The Republic F-105 Thunderchief is an American fighter-bomber that served with the United States Air Force from 1958 to 1984.

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Richard Etchberger

Richard Loy Etchberger (March 5, 1933 – March 11, 1968) was a senior non-commissioned officer in the United States Air Force who posthumously received the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions during the Battle of Lima Site 85 in the Vietnam War.

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Richard Secord

Major General Richard Vernon Secord, Retired (born July 6, 1932), is a United States Air Force officer with a notable career in covert operations.

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Route Package

A Route Package were the names given by the US Air Force and US Navy to describe areas of air operations over North Vietnam.

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Sam Thong

Sam Thong (sometimes spelled Samthong) is a town in Xiangkhouang province, Laos.

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Sikorsky S-61R

The Sikorsky S-61R is a twin-engine helicopter used in transport or search and rescue roles.

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Sortie

A sortie (from the French word meaning ''exit'' or from Latin root surgere meaning to "rise up") is a deployment or dispatch of one military unit, be it an aircraft, ship, or troops, from a strongpoint.

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STOL

A short takeoff and landing (STOL) aircraft is a conventional fixed-wing aircraft that has short runway requirements for takeoff and landing.

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Surface-to-air missile

A surface-to-air missile (SAM), also known as a ground-to-air missile (GTAM) or surface-to-air guided weapon (SAGW), is a missile designed to be launched from the ground or the sea to destroy aircraft or other missiles.

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Tactical air navigation system

A tactical air navigation system, commonly referred to by the acronym TACAN, is a navigation system used by military aircraft.

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Thailand

Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Indochinese Peninsula.

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The Pentagon

The Pentagon is the headquarters building of the United States Department of Defense, in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. The building was constructed on an accelerated schedule during World War II.

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Three-phase electric power

Three-phase electric power (abbreviated 3ϕ) is a common type of alternating current (AC) used in electricity generation, transmission, and distribution.

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Udorn Royal Thai Air Force Base

Udorn Royal Thai Air Force Base (Udorn RTAFB) is a Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) base, the home of 23rd Wing Air Command.

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United States Air Force

The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States.

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USS Thomas J. Gary

USS Thomas J. Gary (DE-326) was an.

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Vietnam War

The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.

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Wild Weasel

Wild Weasel is a code name given by the United States Air Force (USAF) to an aircraft of any type equipped with anti-radiation missiles and tasked with the suppression of enemy air defenses (SEAD): destroying the radar and surface-to-air missile (SAM) installations of enemy air defense systems.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lima_Site_85

Also known as Laos Site 85.

, Reeves AN/MSQ-77 Bomb Directing Central, Reeves Instrument Corporation, Repeater, Republic F-105 Thunderchief, Richard Etchberger, Richard Secord, Route Package, Sam Thong, Sikorsky S-61R, Sortie, STOL, Surface-to-air missile, Tactical air navigation system, Thailand, The Pentagon, Three-phase electric power, Udorn Royal Thai Air Force Base, United States Air Force, USS Thomas J. Gary, Vietnam War, Wild Weasel, Yên Bái Air Base, 1st Combat Evaluation Group, 34th Fighter Squadron, 355th Wing, 357th Fighter Squadron, 388th Fighter Wing.

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See also

1967 establishments in Laos

1968 disestablishments in Laos

Military deception

Military history of Laos during the Vietnam War

Military installations closed in 1968

Military installations established in 1967

Military installations of the United States in Laos

References