Bob,

That's one of the things that has bothered me as I read about the way some of the units were deployed in Vietnam. When the 3rd Brigade of the 25th showed up it was almost like MACV had no idea what to do with them. Once the main units of the 4th started to show up it seems like they got their act together but they still moved so many units around it was almost like a game of musical chairs. The 1/35th and the 2/35th went to the 4th. The 1/14 and part of the 1/12th goes to the 25th. The only brigade which remained intact was the 1st.

Plus if you add in the fact that the 1st Cav and the 173 ABN was still in the II Corp area to add to the confusion. When I first arrived in country in Jan 1968 the 4th Infantry, the 1st Cav, the 173rd ABN, and the 101st ABN were all in and around the Pleiku, Kontum and Dak To. Plus part of the 1/14th which was now part of the 25th Infantry was at Kontum. It was hard enough to learn the job of crew chief without trying to figure out what unit you were flying for.

At least by the middle of 1967 we were no longer a band of nomads that would move from place to place in order to support somebody. The many nights at Dak To made me appreciate my hootch back at Holloway. In 1968 out of the 10 months I flew I think seven of them were all spent in the Dak To Dak Peck area. The two months spent with SOG we still flew through the Dak To area on our way to Laos. I remember more about that area then I do Chicago.