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Originally Posted by baddog
What were you doing in 67 Dave/
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As an Army (paratrooper) Captain, I departed a Company Commander job at Ft Bragg, NC in May of 1967 and went to the Central Highlands of Pleiku, Vietnam, for assignments with the 4th Infantry Div; until Nov, I served as the Divison's Personnel Management Officer handling personnel assignments and (hopefully) masked pumping up of units expected to be in the thick of fighting with Viet Cong and NVA (No. Vietnamese Army), where I also instituted actions to trade similarly trained folks with the same bunchings of redeployment months to other combat units with different months of return to America, thus smoothing out the end-of-tour rotational humps when some units would have been otherwise hurting for experienced and terrain-familiar troops. In Nov, I took over as Infantry Div Unit Cdr, set up in-country training, patrols, ambushes, etc and learned to barely sleep nights during the almost constant rocketing and mortar shellings of the Tet Offensive--long story short, I and a Bronze Star headed back to the "World" in late May of 1968.
Botton line, my 1967 didn't involve any "loose women":-(.
Dave
www.davecummings.com
REALLY old fogey!