My Combat Tour in VietNam

My Combat Tour in VietNam

  1. advanced
    advanced
    I arrived in VietNam January 1968 and joined the 1/5. TET started and around Valentines day we entered Hue City. My battalion attacked and took the Citadel. We took 50% casualties, Alpha took 70%

    March I joined the 3/5 at An Hoa in the Arizona Territory and Dodge City areas. Contact and casualties all the time. The most notable operation was Meade River. At the Hook Mongoose and FistFu with the 3/26 fought their way into us and saved my life. The NVA duked it out with us till we killed them all. I knew I was a goner that time.

    We used to say thank God for the new guys or they would have gotten more of us. The worst place I hated to go was a place called Happy Valley, Mongoose was later shot up bad there. None of us ever thought we were ever coming out of the Nam, and we all accepted that.

    Later I went back to the world and lived happily ever after.
  2. BlackZ51Vett
    BlackZ51Vett
    Thank you brother for your service, sacrifice, and pain.
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