Table of organization and equipment for an ADC company

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The Auto Defense de Choc (

Degar
of South Vietnam. The ADC program consisted of prepacked military equipment suitable for training 100 recruits at a time.

Background

See also: Laotian Civil War, Operation Pincushion, Programs Evaluation Office, and Requirements Office

As the French lost the

Geneva Agreements guaranteeing Laotian neutrality. In January 1961, the Central Intelligence Agency began secret paramilitary operations within Laos. Its aim was to thwart a Vietnamese communist invasion of the kingdom. The resulting Laotian Civil War would be subsumed by the burgeoning Vietnam War.[1]

Origin of the ADC

See also: James William Lair and Operation Momentum

Faced with the conundrum of founding a secret army in the face of an active enemy during wartime, CIA case officer

small arms and equipment parachuted in to the Hmong recruits and their Thai trainers. The resulting self-defense units were called Auto Defense Choc (Self Defense Shock).[2] The results sparked copies of the program such as Operation Pincushion.[3]
The ADC companies were constituted as follows:

Table of Organization for an ADC company

Total personnel authorized: Five officers, 95 enlisted.[3]

Table of Equipment for an ADC company

  • One pallet containing 100 uniforms
  • One pallet containing pistol belts, canteens, and cleaning kits for small arms
  • Nine pallets of munitions, including:
    • One
      57mm recoilless rifle
    • One 60mm mortar
    • Three
      Browning Automatic Rifles
    • Grenades and ammunition

The above eleven pallets were rigged for paradroppage by the Police Aerial Reinforcement Unit of the Thai Border Patrol Police, and weighed just shy of 2.7 metric tons.[3]

Resupply package

There was also a standardised resupply package.

  • Four pallets, including:
    • Ammunition for M1 Garand
    • Ammunition for
      M1 Carbine
    • Grenades
    • Both high explosive and
      white phosphorus
      ammunition for 60 mm mortar
    • Both white phosphorus and anti-tank ammunition for 57 mm recoilless rifle

The resultant load weighed just over one metric ton.[4]

ADC operations

See also: Operation Pincushion

Although the ADC served the purpose of self-defense of Hmong villages, it was also the basis for further military training. As Operation Momentum developed, some ADC graduates were picked for further schooling as training

Second Indochina War.[5][6]

Notes

  1. ^ Conboy, Morrison, pp. 1–14.
  2. ^ Warner, pp. 51–52.
  3. ^ a b c Conboy, Morrison, p. 86.
  4. ^ Conboy, Morrison, p. 91.
  5. ^ Conboy, Morrison, pp. 88–89.
  6. ^ Warner, pp. 118–120, 362.

References

  • Conboy, Kenneth and James Morrison (1995). Shadow War: The CIA's Secret War in Laos. Paladin Press.
    ISBN 0-87364-825-0
    .
  • Warner, Roger (1995). Back Fire: The CIA's Secret War in Laos and Its Link to the War in Vietnam. Simon & Schuster.
    ISBN 0684802929
    .
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