South Vietnam requests more support
The South Vietnamese government requests that Washington double U.S.Military Assistance and Advisory Group (MAAG-Vietnam) strength from 342 to 685.The advisory group was formed on November 1 1955 to provide military assistance to South Vietnam.
It had replaced U.S.Military Assistance Advisory Group Indochina (MAAG-Indochina) which had been providing military assistance to the forces of France and the Associated States in Indochina (Cambodia Laos and Vietnam) in accordance with President Harry S.Trumans order of June 27 1950.MAAG-Vietnam had U.S.
Army Navy Air Force and Marine Corps elements that provided advice and assistance to the South Vietnamese Ministry of Defense Joint General Staff and corps and division commanders as well as to training centers and province and district headquarters.In May 1964 MAAG-Vietnam was disbanded and its personnel and responsibilities absorbed by the U.S.Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV) which had been established in Saigon two years earlier.
