Militia training program for the Royal Lao Armed Forces
The Auto Defense de Choc (ADC) was a militia training program for the Royal Lao Armed Forces. Begun by a French military mission in 1955, its 100-man companies were placed under command of the local Military Region commander when trained. By 1 September 1959, 20 ADC companies were in training, and there were 16,000 ADC soldiers nationwide. When Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operatives Theodore Shackley, James William Lair and others slipped into the Kingdom of Laos in the early 1960s, they instituted an American version of the ADC dependent on pre-packed airdropped materiel. Using a three-day training schedule in Operation Momentum, Shackley, Lair and others, worked with Vang Pao to raise a guerrilla force of 5,000 troops in several months.
The ADC concept's success helped it spread. The Royal Lao Government (RLG) set up its own version. U.S. Special Forces (USSF) copied the ADC for Operation White Star and Operation Pincushion, and to organize the Degar in South Vietnam. In 1967, Royal Thai Special Forces belatedly began their own ADC program along the Thai-Lao border. As the Laotian Civil War continued, ADC troops began to assume the role of regular light infantry. They were gathered into larger units such as ad hoc battalions. In many cases, the village militia was transferred away from their home villages. They were assigned to such non-guerrilla tasks as defending or attacking fixed positions. They were conscripted into regular units of the RLA. Their numbers dwindled in the confusion of warmaking; the ADC faded in importance until only 6,000 remained in service by war's end.
The AutoDefense de Choc (ADC) was a militia training program for the Royal Lao Armed Forces. Begun by a French military mission in 1955, its 100-man companies...
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Reinforcement Unit. Begun on 17 January 1961, the three-day AutoDefenseChoc (Self Defense Shock) course graduated a clandestine guerrilla army of 5,000...
(PAVN) and the Pathet Lao attacked Hmong recruits being trained as AutoDefenseChoc guerrillas via Operation Momentum. Although the Hmong made the tactical...
Military Region 2. He reinforced them by posting three picket lines of AutoDefenseChoc (ADC) skirmishers to screen any PAVN approaches. The five battalions...
coptered into Bouamlong, north of Route 7, to be joined by local AutoDefenseChoc militia. They were to march south toward the Nong Pet road junction...
Kok and Phou Pheung. The latter position was defended by a mix of AutoDefenseChoc (ADC) militia and Bataillon Volontaire 21 (BV 21), but had been weakened...
The AutoDefense de Choc (Self-Defense village militia) company basic training program was a short intensive course in military tactics; it was developed...
directly unchallenged until August 1966. However, the CIA sponsored AutoDefenseChoc militia training behind enemy lines, north of Nam Bac, in 1964. Raised...
kilometers of their objective. On 30 March, they were joined by the AutoDefenseChoc militia of GM 27. The PAVN response was tepid; they stationed two...
invasion and Chinese support for the Communist Party of Thailand. Lao AutoDefenseChoc (ADC) militia were stationed in two villages near Route 46, Ban Houei...
bodies of the helicopter's occupants were recovered from the crash by AutoDefenseChoc militia on 14 October 1965. By late 1965, Operation Hardnose was expanding...
Royaume), best known by its French acronym FAR, were the official armed defense forces of the Kingdom of Laos, a state that existed from 1949 to 1975 in...
provisions called for the Central Intelligence Agency to increase their AutoDefenseChoc troops to 23,000 militia. The new ADC would be used to link up zones...
FAR, were the official armed defense forces of the Kingdom of Laos from 1959 to 1975. Subordinated to the Ministry of Defense of the Royal Lao Government...
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Voluntaires), and 247 irregular Commando Self-Defense village militia companies (AutoDefense de Choc – ADC). However, in November 1965 the Volunteer...
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success of Operation Diadem. The 9th Colonial Infantry Division (9 DIC) and Choc (special forces) battalions of I Corps assaulted and seized the heavily fortified...
28 November 2011. Sayad, Moulaye (28 November 2011), Tombouctou : Sous le Choc (in French), L'Essor, retrieved 1 January 2012 Callimachi, Rukmini (1 April...
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encamped, and leapfrogged over the foe to be landed at a vacant AutoDefense de Choc (ADC) site, Xieng Dat. They were refurbished for three days in preparation...
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