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July 7, 1968 Once again, we were called out on a mission. Six Long Range Recon Patrol (LRRPs) members had been scouting enemy movement when they had to call for air support. An attack helicopter unit was dispatched to help them. They had received enemy small arms fire from an unknown size force. One of […]
January 9, 2011
This story was written by Mike Askew. Mike was a CE and a gunner in the Red Platoon of Charlie Troop from 1967 to 1968. I appreciate Mike giving me permission to post this story. I’m not much for telling war stories, guess it’s because most people just don’t understand about Vietnam. Up until this day in […]
May 21, 2010
We had been sent on many ambushes before. We also went on some after this one. But this one was special. I can’t remember dates but we were given the mission of setting up a night ambush along a well used Viet Cong trail. The Lift Pilots did their job well. As we flew in, […]
February 3, 2010
To read about the Ashau Valley go to My year in Vietnam by Patrick Bieneman.
February 1, 2010
We were called out on a mission because while scouting out an area, one of our helicopters came under fire. We were inserted into the area and started to move into the village from where the small arms fire had come . Before we could get into the village we heard small arms fire from another […]
Charlie Troop 1st Squadron 9th Cavalry Regiment 
May 7, 2023
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