we had a gomer in our company at Fort Knox who dropped a grenade in the pit. the Lt. clobbered him and threw it. he also took a deep breath in the chlorine chamber and got some hospital time. he wore his steel pot backwards for nearly eight weeks and nobody really noticed. often wondered what happened to him.
when is was in the army i bought “Street without Joy”. if i recall the battle was on Route 15 in and around where we had a base camp at ccamp Bear Cat near a South Vietnamese special forces post. after i rotated back to the U.S. i heard it was over run.