19 Part One: Boot Camp 19 Part One: Boot Camp 19 Part One: Boot Camp is a multi-load computer game created by Cascade Games in . It appeared on the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum. The inspiration for the game came in two parts - the arcade game "Combat School" and the Paul Hardcastle song "19", which was itself about the Vietnam War. The player controls a soldier through several training events, including an obstacle course, shooting practice and jeep driving. The game is split into four stages: Stage One is an assault course - the player must gain speed by pressing the right directional
1956 in the Vietnam War military advisers in South Vietnam. The first American killed in the Vietnam War died June 8 at the hand of another American soldier. In 1956 the term Viet Cong came into use and gradually replaced the older term Viet Minh. The government-controlled Saigon press first started using the term referring to communists in South Vietnam as "Viet Cong" a shortening of "Viet Nam Cong-San" which means "Vietnamese Communist." President Diem issued Ordinance Number 6 which permitted the imprisonment of communists and others "dangerous to national defense and common security." Diem's anti-communist repression reduced communist party membership in South Vietnam by