Presidential Guard (South Vietnam)



"This is the South Vietnamese Presidential Guard. That's what Henry John Hoang was hiring for. I know that he has an adequately-numbered and well-trained unit of troops who can keep his loyalty for the Grand Alliance and all of his people in South Vietnam alive, but now the ducangers are now having a better potential more stronger and clever than his guard..."

--Su Ji-Hoon, The Last Hour of Henry John Hoang

The Presidential Guard (Vietnamese: Lữ đoàn Liên binh phòng vệ Tổng Thống Phủ) was a military unit of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam that was assigned to personally protect the President of the Republic of Vietnam, the nation-state that existed from 1955 to 1975. This force formed the bulwark of defences against continual coups, preventing previous coups against Ngo Dinh Diem, and would be maintained to prevent further coups in the wake of political instability following it.