Camp Holloway Discussion Forum Archive 02 - 05/07/01 to 02/28/03

Re: A-Teams
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Tom,

When we pulled our tour with them they were getting chute with the way we did things. We would use five ship at a time. One would be the C&C ship. We would first put one team in some place over the border. That ship would have a chase ship in case something happened. The other two ships would extract the team we had put in two to five days prior. We did this with two Crocs as our cover. Hotel 9 was I believe a rest area and regroup location along the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos. Always caught fire in that area. About three weeks after Tom's adventure there I was involved with something like that. We had put in the team and the next day they made contact. The bad guys had chased them for several hours by the time we got there to pull they out. I got an award for that day, 23 August 1968, but didn't receive it until Sept 1974. I guess they were cleaning out my file in St. Louis after my discharge and found some things that never got to me. The stange thing was how they worded the citation. "We were involved with an extraction of a friendly force deep within enemy territory during a classified operation". This might have been their way of not saying where we were. Anyway this SFC who we pulled out of that mess made me his little brother and he talked alot about what was going on. I learned more than maybe I should have not I was never one that would be left in the dark about what was going on. The stuff that we did in Cambodia never got that hairy during our tour. I recall maybe two things that happened but I was not involved with them. Every time we went into Laos something happened.

We didn't get the chance to work with them in 1969 because of the Plei-Trap valley. We got pretty chewed up there and plus the fact that they moved the 1st Brigade of the 4th Infantry to An Khe we also moved east. I think some of the LRRP extraction we did were just as bad but at least we were on our side of the fence. Of course going in some place at night and being able to see the bad guys walking around with their flashlights on is enough for anyone.

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