I got minor wounded that night when a mortar exploded about 2 feet in front of me and left a crater in the sand bags. To this day I can’t remember the names of a single person I was on guard duty with that night, we had some wounded and medicav out I never heard of their status and often wondered later found out that we were firing against friendly fire, the Korean roc army. I was one of the guards on duty there during a fire fight. I was stationed with the 41st signal Battalion and pulled guard duty many nights at the water point. Yeah, you, me and SSG Alford left behind when the RF/PF’s kicked down the wire and ran the hell out of there so fast that their asses left skid marks and we were the last ones out and under fire from the village. And you know the rest of the story (that I told in the chat a couple of years ago) because you were and important part of that whole “adventure” 51 years ago in December ’68. And I can still see CPT Kah standing up and wildly waving his hand over his head towards the outpost to get them to stop shooting at us which they did. I couldn’t get any closer to the ground in a prone position because my buttons were in the way. And I also remember very well getting caught in the crossfire when the NVA opened up on us AND SO DID THE OUTPOST thinking that we were more NVA coming up to overrun them.
I well remember when MAJ Linsmorstad (if I spelled his name right) to me to get a team together and go, that what really worried me was that we were probably going to get into a real good fight because the NVA were still intrenched in the village that would directly on our right as we as we proceeded past the VN District HQ that we eventually ended up back at after being run out of the outpost. I highly recommend it, as it helped me understand what exactly MACV was about. I got to see his video A Very Lonely War. BTW – I was briefly in touch with Jim Roberts (but communications got interrupted by some medical issues I had). They were really great guys to work with … very professional. I’d sure like to know what happened after I left.
Let me know if you might know the names of any of the MACV guys or if you have photos we might exchange. I had only 10 days left in country and I went back to FB Buttons and was then sent out for a four day stint to open up a new LZ further west. I was the only 1st Cav support, but 4 guys from the Cav came to replace me, and I don’t know what happened after I left or what was the reasoning behind the increased support. I have some pics of them and the compound. I honestly don’t recall the names of the team (they obviously were close with each other and I really didn’t know much about MACV). I was in the 1st Cav and detached to support a 5 man MACV team in Duc Phong from Oct 70 to March 71.
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