organizationCON THIEN FIREBASEThis was America's largest firebase, first established by the Special Forces (Green Berets), and then handed over to the Marines in 1966 The Ho Chi Minh Trails to the west, and secret sea routes to the east, enabled the north to send supplies to the revolutionaries in the south, thus by-passing a string of American firebases overlooking the Ben Hai River He assured from his immediate observations that "acupuncture, herbal medicine, and beating may be awful able ameliorative tools