Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Rikicin farko shi ne "Mayaguez" lamarin
Ka yi haƙuri. A watan Mayun 1975, jim kadan bayan faduwar Saigon da Khmer Rouge na Cambodia, 'yan Cambodia sun kama jirgin Amurka mai suna "Mayaguez" a cikin ruwan kasa da kasa. Ford ya aika da Marines don ceton ma'aikatan jirgin, amma Marines sun sauka a tsibirin da ba daidai ba kuma sun haɗu da tsayayyar tsayayya kamar yadda ba a sani ba a Amurka, ana sakin ma'aikatan jirgin ruwa na "Mayaguez". A cikin aikin, an harbe jirgin sama mai saukar ungulu na soja guda biyu da ke dauke da Sojojin Ruwa don aikin hari, kuma an kashe sojojin Amurka 41 da 50 da suka jikkata, yayin da aka kashe kimanin sojojin Khmer Rouge 60. Duk da asarar da Amurka ta yi, an ga aikin a matsayin nasara a Amurka, kuma Ford ya ji dadin karuwar maki 11 a cikin ƙididdigar amincewarsa a baya. Amurkawa da aka kashe a lokacin aikin sun zama na karshe da za a rubuta sunayensu a bangon Tunawa da Tsoffin Sojojin Vietnam a Washington, DC.