Excellent story of the 3/26 Marines at Khe Sanh. At 50:34 that is Hill 950 (also called Hickory Hill) it contained two secret US Army Security Agency soldiers (Radio Relay), and a platoon to guard us from the 1/26 Marines until about October 1968. When the Marines left that month US Army Special Forces and their Montegnards (hill people) took over security of our hill. All other hills and the combat base were abandoned and leveled by the Seabees. Our secret equipment had to be on a hill higher that the mountains between the border with Laos to enable the signals from the Ho Chi Minh trail equipment to get to us, and to relay it to our Phu Bai (near Hue) base location. In addition we also had our secret communications with SOG/Montagnard (Special Forces) operating in Laos. Hill 950 was overrun twice with many killed in early 1967, and again in June, 1971.
Excellent story of the 3/26 Marines at Khe Sanh. At 50:34 that is Hill 950 (also called Hickory Hill) it contained two secret US Army Security Agency soldiers (Radio Relay), and a platoon to guard us from the 1/26 Marines until about October 1968. When the Marines left that month US Army Special Forces and their Montegnards (hill people) took over security of our hill. All other hills and the combat base were abandoned and leveled by the Seabees. Our secret equipment had to be on a hill higher that the mountains between the border with Laos to enable the signals from the Ho Chi Minh trail equipment to get to us, and to relay it to our Phu Bai (near Hue) base location. In addition we also had our secret communications with SOG/Montagnard (Special Forces) operating in Laos. Hill 950 was overrun twice with many killed in early 1967, and again in June, 1971.
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I read his book. A great read!
Westmorland would not have had the power to use nuclear weapons, would he? If so, what would Presidential codes be good for?
Excellent!
Hind sight is 20/20….Curious if in retrospect we should have done anything differently tactically?
Mad as hell…..I don’t why….Uhm a foreign fighter in his land maybe.