Starting in 1964, officers from the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam — more commonly known by the abbreviation MAC-V — held daily press briefings at the Rex Hotel in Saigon. As the war dragged on and became an increasingly bloody quagmire, military officials outlined with great precision the number of enemy soldiers killed, the number of targets bombed, and the number of sorties flown each day. The military continued to give journalists access to the frontlines and speak to the troops on