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Date Posted: 14:13:50 11/24/09 Tue
Author: Richard Williams
Subject: Re: Anyone who served with me in Co A
In reply to: Dan Kleiner 's message, "Re: Anyone who served with me in Co A" on 05:19:56 10/31/09 Sat

>>>Trying to find anyone who served fromJan 1967 to Feb
>>>1968.
>>>When we had mortor attack at the rock crusher. Or
>>>when we were attacked on our way thru an kaye pass.
>>>Would like to here from any one company a.
>>
>>
>>Hi...i saw your posting on the 84th engineers bulletin
>>board.
>>
>>I was in A company after the 73rd relocated from phu
>>tai to bong son. I worked at the qaurry site, in the
>>maintenence platoon.
>>
>>I was in Phu Tai from Feb 1967 to March 1968. I
>>remember some kind of stuff going on out at the quarry
>>site around the time of the Tet Offensive, I never
>>knew if it was mortars or artillery or what the hell
>>it was....stuff going right over our heads all night
>>though. and I remember a number of times of satchel
>>charges going off at A company compound.
>>
>> I was on guard duty a lot during that tet offensive
>>guarding the ice plant there in phu tai, and some
>>bullets whizzing around there.
>>
>>I also remember being on guard duty out at the quarry
>>one night when we discovered a whole lot of people
>>moving like ants up on that mountain behind the
>>crushers..not where we were blasting rock, but where
>>the vietnamese made their charcoal. It turned out I
>>guess that they were ROK, Vietnamese and American
>>troops making a major move pushing VC & NVA farther
>>north or something...who the hell knows what was going
>>on....we radioed in to the Officer of the guard, he
>>checked into it and then told us to abandon our quarry
>>site and go back to our compound.
>>
>>Also remember seeing a mini-gun being fired on that
>>mountian during the night one time after an
>>observation plane dropped a high level flare lighting
>>the place up like daytime....scared the crap out of
>>us. We had no idea what a minigun was at the time.
>>We asked some MPs the next dayw aht it was..theys aid
>>it was the mini gum . we thought the c130 it was
>>fired from was on fire or something..looked like
>>burning fuel coming out the bottom of it...but that
>>was hot lead tracers i guess. .we were working out
>>there on 12 hour shifts at the time, crushing rock 24
>>hours a day.

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  • Re: Anyone who served with me in Co A -- Richard Williams, 13:34:24 11/25/09 Wed
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