sentences:  The mountain and parachute units remained essential as military support for the local police and gendarmerie security forces, as well as the apprehension of several hundred ERP and Montoneros guerrillas who were still operating in the jungles and mountains, and sympathizers hidden among the civilian population in what was described by the American newspaper "Baltimore Sun" as a "growing 'Viet war'" During the first week of January, the army commandos discovered seven guerrilla hideouts.During February 1976, in an effort to rekindle the rural front in Tucumán, Montoneros sent in reinforcements in the form of a company of their elite "Jungle Troops", which was initially commanded by Juan Carlos Alsogaray ("El Hippie"), son of General Julio Alsogaray, who had served as head of the Argentine Army from 1966 to 1968.The ERP also sent reinforcements to Tucumán in the form of their elite "Decididos de Córdoba" Company from Córdoba.