South Korea Sends a Noncombat Unit to Vietnam

February 25, 1965

Postage Stamp to Commemorate Korean Military Assistance Group in Vietnam, 1965

Overview

The Republic of Korea Military Assistance Group, Vietnam, also known as Dove Unit, begins to arrive in Vietnam. It is based in Bien Hoa Province. South Korea’s Dove Unit includes a noncombat force of about 2,400 men comprising a construction support group, marine corps engineer company, army security company, and navy amphibious unit.1

¹Stanley Robert Larsen and James Lawton Collins, Jr., Allied Participation in Vietnam, Vietnam Studies (Washington, D.C.: Department of the Army, 1985), 120–124; Lee Byeong-cheon, ed., Developmental Dictatorship and the Park Chung-Hee Era: The Shaping of Modernity in the Republic of Korea (Paramus, NJ: Homa and Sekey Books, 2006), 252–254; BACM Research Group, Vietnam War: After Action Reports, Lessons Learned Documents, Battle Assessments (Beverley Hills, CA: BACM Research, 2009), 108, 223; Spencer C. Tucker, ed. The Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, and Military History (2nd edition; Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2011), 352