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reinforce MACV in the event of a massive invasion from the North. The
TPFDL reflected the activation of reserve coimponent units, their
training cycles, availability for movement overseas, ?.nd DlanneJ
arrival in RVN. The list incluaed bdttalions, scpp;.ate companies, Znd
even two-mai, dog-handling sections.
51, The J-5 staff reviewed the Cambodian plan and opined that the forces
planned for were too few in number to be effective., Vioient media
outcry and public concern wis forecast by the J-5 staff which recommended
in favor of an incursion, but with significantly greater forces
than initially planned, Based on comments by a former Chief of the
US/SEATO Plans Division, MAC-J-52.
E2. For example, a Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF), or Expeditionary
Brigade (MEB) was tasked in the early 1960s to be prepared to enter RVN
et Tourane (Dananq) as part of a SEATO force. Taskiny initiated in
PACOM SEATO plans, then in Pacific Fleet SEATO pl. 1 ns, and finally in
Task Force 79 (TF79) SEATO plans. TF79 is the Marine division/wing
team in the Western Pacific which also has had the identity of III MEF
(now MAF). TF79 plans were coordinated wi.h TF76, the amphibious task
force of S.-VENTH FLEET, and with MACTHAI and SEATO ,oeadauarters in
Bangkok.
53. Concept Plans are now an approved format. Since most J-5 sections are
responsible for r,,ore contingency plans than they can effectively revise
orn an annuAl basis, the use of Concept Plans makes for greater efficiency
and facilitates kieeing importaot plans current.
54, This view is substantiated in DoD Study Group - A.M.P.O.O., p. 15.,
55.. Ibid., p. 9. "The current system for contingency war planning i3
basically sound."
56. Taylor, Swords and Plowshare, p. 308.
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