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During the war, on television news, TIME magazine, LIFE magazine, newspapers, TV Talk Shows, the US Military in the United States, college campuses, people at home, and the men fighting in Vietnam itself; the enemy was called the NVA or VC (North Vietnamese Army or Viet Cong) and the ally South Vietnam was called the South Vietnamese Navy, Air Force, Marines, Rangers, or Army (but to US servicemen actually in country, the South Viets were called the ARVN's=Army Republic of South Vietnam/or the South Viets).

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