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The Americans sending 16 engineers with chainsaws, 2 guard platoons, a 165mm main gun, a M728 combat engineer vehicle, multiple M4T6 rafts, a 64-man task force of the South Korean 1st Special Forces Brigade trained with taekwondo, a line of sandbags in which soldiers were armed with M16 rifles, M79 grenade launchers, and claymore mines, 20 utility helicopters and seven Cobra attack helicopters, B-52 Stratofortresses, F-4 Phantom IIs, F-5 and F-86 fighters, F-111 bombers, F-4C and -D Phantoms, the USS Midway stationed offshore, heavily-armed infantry, artillery including the Second Battalion, 71st Air Defense Regiment armed with Improved Hawk missiles, and armor were waiting to back up the special operations team, the defcon was raised to 3 (defcon 1 is nuclear war and defcon 5 is normal), 12,000 additional troops were ordered to korea including 1,800 marines, nuclear-capable strategic bombers circled over the area, every UNC force in the rest of South Korea was on battle alert to cut down a tree that blocked view from a command post. The north koreans wanting to keep the tree because the ruler liked it; this happened in 1976
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