[BeAllYouCanBe]

My son who was in the Indiana National Guard and has returned from Iraq was in the 193 Infantry out of Fort Wayne (actually my son was in the heavy weapons "Dog" company in Huntington) and they all won the Combat Infantry Badge. I know that the 151 is out of South Bend and they were in Iraq too last year and I think they returned in January so the tradition continues.

Anyone who wants to thank my son his freeper name is = desertdog please do.

I also heard about an Illinois Special Forces unit in Nam that had some great accomplishments.

[Hon]

"Anyone who wants to thank my son his freeper name is = desertdog please do.

I also heard about an Illinois Special Forces unit in Nam that had some great accomplishments."

Thanks, Desertdog!

BTW, as one of the posts above points out, most of the National Guard units that went to Vietnam were broken up and assigned to Army units. The "Indiana Rangers" were rare in that they were kept together as a unit. (And as you say, this probably happened with the Illinois Special Forces unit.)

The point really is that 7,000 National Guardsmen were in the combat area in Vietnam. (Gore was never in a combat area. Kerry was in a combat area for 3-1/2 months, that is when he wasn't meeting with Zumwalt to tell him how to run the war.)