The Vietnamese Resettlement Program was designed to relocate people whose villages had been destroyed by marauding Viet Cong forces. It was managed by State headquarters in Saigon and proved as corrupt as every other governmental agency. The Americans could see a pattern of citizens having connections being assigned to communities close to Saigon and other urban areas in III and IV Corps. Women, children and the elderly were shipped to villages at I and II Corps in jungle areas distant from heavily populated areas. Dong Ha was seeing more and more of these refugees.
Dogpatch was what was considered a fortified hamlet. Its citizens constituted a militia force supervised by the Luc Luong Dac Biet (*Vietnamese Special Forces) whose village was as a fort dedicated to protecting the area from
