United States Taiwan Defense Command
The United States Taiwan Defense Command was a sub-unified command of the United States Armed Forces operating in Taiwan from December 1954 to April 1979.
Number of U.S. Troops Stationed in Taiwan (1950–1979)
U.S. Army 327th Communications Reconnaissance Company stationed at Shu LinKou Air Station, Taipei, Taiwan, March 1955
16th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron North American F-86D-35-NA Sabre 51–6214, assigned to Naha Air Base, Okinawa, deployed at Chia-Yi AFB, Taiwan, 1955
VMF-451 of the Marine Aircraft Group 11 in Pingtung Air Base, Taiwan, 19 September 1958
Military Assistance Advisory Group
A Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG) is a designation for a group of United States military advisors sent to other countries to assist in the training of conventional armed forces and facilitate military aid. Although numerous MAAGs operated around the world throughout the 1940s–1970s, including in Yugoslavia after 1951, the most famous MAAGs were those active in Southeast Asia before and during the Vietnam War.
U.S. Army advisor trains at battalion level
This is a US Military Service badge for the US Military Advisory and Assistance Group in Thailand