From the book "Memoir Of A Cold War Soldier"
On New Year's Eve (1969 Camp Radcliffe) all was quiet until midnight, when the battalion and other units on the perimeter fired a "mad minute." The Army aviators were having a party at the airfield, and at midnight they began firing hand-held flares, one of which struck and destroyed a helicopter. A private first class from my battalion (1/8) had been on security guard at the airfield; charges were to be preferred against him for not stopping the pilots from firing the flares. I wrote a letter to the division commander telling him I thought the charges were unfair, in that the PFC could not reasonably have been expect to stop a group of carousing officers bent on mischief. The charges were drooped. Later, after we had deployed from the camp. The NVA conducted a surprise raid on the airfield, and several more helicopters were destroyed.
Anyone recall this?
Dave Fogg