Red Catchers didn’t fold ... held off wave after wave. Took out the ones using the railroad. Most of the troops there were units back on rotation and Hq/support.
Chu Lai airfield. A long week.
FYI!
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Words can not express my gratitude for your actions. Welcome Home.
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5.56mm
The first rocket hitting our position killed 19 of our guys.
I was 15 at the time, thank you very much for your service!
I was in BanMeThout. (Central Highlands) I remember all the bridges along QL 21 south to NaTrang were blown. Stopped all resupply traffic north for weeks. I must say it was a well coordinated attack by the VC. Their objective was to cut off the City of BanMeThout but it was unsuccessful.
I was at Ft Lewis, processing. My orders were for MACV Hq in Saigon. I was a Personnel Specialist. Friends who had been there before had briefed me and provided key names and phone numbers; who to contract for maid and valet service, where to live in town, bars to avoid, the best tailor, a favorite Mama San......
A few days later, I was standing between the trails of a M114, 155 mm towed howitzer in the Central Highlands. I learned my new combat arms MOS through On the Job Training in actual combat and for the next twelve years in the Army I was an artilleryman.
So what ever you have to say about that SAY IT loud!
btt
God bless then all.
The gift that keeps on giving? Yes, to Democrats and the communists.
btt
Wow.
Thank you for your service.
Sadly, The Red China commies are in the white hut now!
I’m a former Marine that served during the Vietnam era … however, I didn’t serve in Vietnam. A good friend of mine spent the entire Tet Offensive at Khe Sanh. Most of it in a bunker … his communications trailer (he was the senior NCO) was riddled with shrapnel. After the Tet Offensive he was rotated back to Da Nang … awarded the Bronze Star … and given a job of teaching Marines on in country leave how to sail. My friend, and fellow Marine, was from Connecticut and learned to sail on LI Sound as a kid. He was picked up by a Marine recruiting team looking for suitable candidates to serve at the prestigious 8th & I Marine barracks in Washington, DC. He ended up his Marine Corps career as a member of the Honor Guard that appeared at a Super Bowl back in that era. In another picture he was the Marine standing immediately below the podium (with the U.S. flag) at Nixon’s second inauguration. This picture was in all of the media publications at the time.
What we called the “Tet Offensive” was what General Giap considered his “General Uprising,” the climatic action that was to overthrow the Republic of VietNam and drive the Americans (and their allies) out of the country. Militarily, it failed about as badly as Hitler’s Battle of the Bulge did in WWII.
Years later, one of the commanders of the US 9th Inf Div met the man who had been his opposite number in the Mekong Delta region at the time. “You know,” the American said, “You never beat us in the field. We won every battle over battalion size.” “That is true,” the Communist leader replied. “It is also irrelevant.”
[Viet Nam veteran: C/4/47; 2nd Brigade; 9th Inf. Div.]
A cowardly act by the Commies. Tet is THE national holiday,...Christmas, New Years, birthday, birthdate of Martin Luther King all rolled into one single day, a day reserved for feasting and remembering family. Yet these cowards launched a surprise attack knowing their brethren were engaged in solemn celebration. Despicable!