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, ...

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 ...

Tran Bui Smith and her family fled South Vietnam in 1975 and arrived at Fort Chaffee, Arkansas, as refugees. The Bui family faced challenges adapting to American culture but persevered, finding ...

FORT SMITH, Ark. — This summer marks 50 years since thousands of Vietnamese refugees were brought to the United States following the fall of Saigon. For many, that new life began at Fort Chaffee in ...

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