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United States Deactivates Military Assistance Command Vietnam

March 29, 1973

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The South Vietnamese Army band plays as guests arrive for the base closure ceremonies at Da Nang Air Base, March 3, 1973. (National Archives)

General Frederick C. Weyand formally deactivates U.S. MACV. Included in this action is the deactivation of CORDS and the U.S. Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps Advisory Groups, Vietnam.1

1Shelby L. Stanton, Vietnam Order of Battle (Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole, 1981), 59–60; Graham A. Cosmas, MACV: The Joint Command in the Years of Withdrawal, 1968–1973, United States Army in Vietnam (Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, 2006), 397, 400; Edward J. Marolda, By Sea, Air, and Land: An Illustrated History of the U.S. Navy and the War in Southeast Asia (Washington, D.C.: Naval Historical Center, 1994), 348–49; Bernard C. Nalty, Air War Over South Vietnam, 1968–1975 (Washington, D.C.: Air Force History and Museums Program, 2000), 403; Charles D. Melson and Curtis G. Arnold, The War That Would Not End, 1971–1973, U.S. Marines in Vietnam (Washington, D.C.: History and Museums Division, 1991), 208.