Publication: April 1986

General Note: The Right Stuff Gone Wrong? by Duncan Spencer
Letters
The Arts of War Get Out Your Handkerchiefs by Mark Leepson
It Was 20 Years Ago Today ... 1966 Vietcong Attack Saigon Airbase; U.S. Jet Downed in China; Dogfights with Russian Migs; Southern Troops Protest Leaders
Hearts & Minds by David Harrington ACSW
Back in the World by Mark Perry
VVA Clears Senate Hurdle on Way to Federal Backing by Duncan Spencer
From Vietnam to El Salvador by Asa Baber
Books - A Place Forever American by Bill Crandall
Behnd the Lines with Harry Summers by Marc Leepson

Point/Counterpoint
Vietnam Veterans' Nonstop Con Game by Joseph R. Kurtz, Jr.
Who's Conning Whom? by David Harrington

Update
A Stout-Hearted Woman
Gramm-Rudman Ax Falls on Entitlement Payments
Congress Slams VA Cuts: Reagan 'Abandoning' Vets?
VVMF Launches Search for Families: 108 Names to be Added to Memorial Wall
Last Push for Black Patriots Memorial
Back to Square One: Women's Agent Orange Study Stuck
New Vet Unit in Delaware
Listen Up
Staff News
New Chapters

Locked and Loaded The New Designer Army by Bill Crandall
Chapter Notes by Jim Harbison
Locator compiled by Connie Murray

Perma Link: https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=162Serial615823

Citation: The VVA Veteran, 162Serial615823. No Date, Burch Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=162Serial615823, Accessed 16 Feb 2026.

Pub Credit Line: 162Serial615823, Burch Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University

Vietnam Center & Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive