Fifty years ago this month, the first Indochinese refugees arrived at Fort Chaffee in Arkansas. “When the United States evacuated its remaining personnel from Vietnam in the spring of 1975, it left in ...

I was a Washington correspondent for the Arkansas Democrat when it was announced in 1987 that Fort Chaffee had been chosen as the U.S. Army's Joint Readiness Training Center. It was a big story for ...

This month marks the 50th anniversary of the first Indochinese refugees arriving at Fort Chaffee. Considering that more than 50,000 refugees passed through Arkansas between May and December 1975, ...