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Whiz Kid Ordered Cut in Copter Purchases Before Vietnam BuildUp
Dr. Alain Enthoven, defense systems analyst, told a Senate subcommittee he advised McNamara to hold helicopter buys at about 700 a year in fiscal 1965. The budget hike later surged as U.S. ground forces expanded in Vietnam, with helicopter fleet growing from 6,200 to over 9,300 by mid-1967.
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