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The United States used advisors and advisor teams to train and advise South Vietnamese Army units for several years during the Vietnam conflict. The service members selected to be advisors would often attend the Military Advisor Training Academy (MATA) at the United States Army Special Warfare School at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. This course varied in length over the course of time. At one point it was several weeks long.
References
"The Advisor and His Counterpart in Vietnam", Handout 306,
U.S. Army Special Warfare School (USASWS), 29 Nov 1968, PDF, 5
pages.
https://militaryadvisor.info/docs/AdvisorCounterpartVietnamHandout306-29Nov68.pdf
MATA Handbook Vietnam, ST31-179, United States Army Special Warfare
School, USASWS, Jan 1966, PDF, 140 pages.
https://militaryadvisor.info/docs/MATA-HB-Vietnam-ST31-179-USASWS-Jan66.pdf
Lesson Plan, Military Advisors in Vietnam: 1963,
prepared by the Department of Education and Public
Programs, John F. Kennedy Presidential Libary and Museum, May
2020, PDF, 11 pages.
https://www.jfklibrary.org/sites/default/files/2020-05/Military
Advisors in Vietnam Lesson 2020.pdf
Advisor Handbook for Counterinsurgency, FM 31-73, Department
of the Army, April 1965, PDF, 219 pages.
https://www.bits.de/NRANEU/others/amd-us-archive/FM31-73 1965
.pdf
Whitlow, Captain Robert H. (1977). U.S. Marines in Vietnam: The
Advisory and Combat Assistance Era, 1954-1964, United
States Marine Corps University, PDF, 200 pages.
https://www.usmcu.edu/Portals/218/U_S_ Marines in Vietnam_The
Advisory and Combat Assistance Era 1954-1964 PCN
19000306400.pdf
Mobile Advisory Teams - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Advisory_Teams
Hickey, G.C. (1965). The American Miltary Advisor and
His Foreign Counterpart: The Case of Vietnam, Memorandum
RM-4482-ARPA, PDF, 107 pages. Prepared by the RAND Corporation
fo the Advanced Research Projects Agency.
https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_memoranda/2007/RM4482.pdf
Resources
MACV Teams. A listing of and forum for the advisor teams
that were part of Military Assistance Command Teams Vietnam.
https://macvteams.org/
Papers and Articles about Advisors in Vietnam
Osborne, Maj William V., USMC (2012). The Critical
Capability: CORDS District Advisor Teams in Vietnam, USMC
Command and Staff College, Quanitco, VA, PDf, 49 pages.
https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA600602.pdf
Willbanks, J. H. (2009). The Evolution of the US Advisory Effort in Viet Nam : Lessons Learned. Journal of Conflict Studies Retrieved from https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/JCS/article/view/15238
____. (2009). The 77th SFG Mission to South Vietnam, ARSOF History.
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