Vietnam Era Silk Blood Chit best seller The four-language format reflects the

The four-language format reflects the specific threat environment of the peninsula in the early 1950s — fewer languages than the Vietnam-era chit's 12 or the Persian Gulf chit's 13

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it is also the most linguistically complex blood chit in American military history

and printed survival text in English

and others — a deliberate decision by planners who anticipated coalition aircrew could be downed anywhere across a geographically and linguistically fragmented theater spanning Saudi Arabia

Vietnam Era Silk Blood Chit best seller The four-language format reflects theThe Vietnam Era blood chit was issued to USAF, USN, and USMC aircrew flying over Southeast Asia the longest running blood chit program in American military history, spanning from the early 1960s through 1975. The Vietnam blood chit contains survival text in 12 languages covering the complex linguistic landscape of the theater: Vietnamese (northern and southern dialects), Khmer, Lao, Thai, Malay, Indonesian, Tagalog, and others reflecting the