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Operation Safe Side is an airbase defense program of the United States Air Force begun during the Vietnam War. Because the USAF was responsible for the defense of its own airbases in South Vietnam but had no recent institutional experience to draw from, Safe Side was implemented to test aggressive tactics against an opponent in the field. The 1041st Security Police Squadron (Test) was drawn from volunteers and trained by Army Rangers at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, in the second half of 1966. In January 1967 it deployed to Phu Cat Air Base, Vietnam, then still under construction, where it performed reconnaissance and ambush patrols outside the perimeter until July 1967. Its members then helped train three successor units, called combat security police squadrons (CSPS). Organized as the 82nd Combat Security Police Wing, these were the 821st, 822nd, and 823rd CSPS, successively trained at Schofield Barracks and at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Beginning in 1968 with the 821st CSPS, each squadron of more than 500 men performed up to 179 days of temporary duty (TDY) in Vietnam, based at Phan Rang Air Base but with detachments of an officer and 32 CSPs deployed at air bases throughout the country. As the war drew down, the TDYs ended with the second deployment of the 821st. Reduced to a force of 250 men, the 821st CSPS became part of the USAF allotment in Vietnam until its deactivation in late 1971. The Safe Side tradition continues today in the USAF Security Forces combat-deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan.