Operation Hastings

Operation Hastings
	Part of the Vietnam War
	; Marines of Company H, 2/4th Marines take to the water as they move to join up with other elements of their battalion
Date	July 15 – August 3, 1966
Location	Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone
Result	South Vietnamese and U.S. victory
Belligerents
United States ; South Vietnam	North Vietnam
Commanders and leaders
Lewis W. Walt; Wood B. Kyle; Lowell English; Ngo Quang Truong	Chu Phương Đới
Units involved
3rd Marine Division; 1st Infantry Division;	324-B Division
Strength
8,000; 3,000;	8,000 to 10,000
Casualties and losses
126 killed; 21 killed;	~700 killed; 17 captured;

Operation Hastings was an American military operation in the Vietnam War. The operation was a qualified success in that it pushed the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) forces back across the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). As the PAVN clearly did not feel constrained by the "demilitarized" nature of the DMZ, U.S. military leadership ordered a steady build-up of U.S. Marines near the DMZ from 1966 to 1968.