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Palm became a combined-Action Marine in 1967.
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Recognizing that search-and-destroy operations were immoral and self-defeating and that the best hope for victory was "winning hearts and minds," the Corps stationed squads of Marines, augmented by Navy corpsmen, in the countryside to train and patrol alongside village self-defense units called Popular Forces.
Marine Corps\' Combined Action Program (CAP) in Vietnam was an enlightened gesture of strategic dissent.
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