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3/17/2025, 9:32:01 PM
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Alright, before we get to the Pongo’s I need to establish place and date. My grandfather drafted into the US Army in 1968, and was stationed there in country from 68’ to 70’. He was a Seargent in the 1st Infantry and a member of the 28th Infantry Regiment known as the ‘Black Lions’. His unit was deployed to the Michelin Rubber Plantations in the Dầu
Tiếng District of Bình Dươn in order to rout a Vietcong presence in the area. The operation was a success, and his unit was then tasked with entering the Tay Ninh in order to conduct long distance, deep jungle patrols in a preemptive movement to prevent the Viet Cong from flooding the plantation again using the Ho Chi Minh trail.
Now the encounter itself would've occurred sometime in early 1969, between January to March, when his Platoon was conducting ambush and prisoner-taking operations near the Ho-Chi-Minh trail itself. They were on their way back after completing their mission, having ambushed multiple Vietnamese groups traveling down with ox-carts packed full of Chinese AK’s and explosives. They were exhausted and their Platoon leader decided that it was time to set up camp and so the different squads all fanned out to find a suitable clearing for the platoon to set up camp.
>>4964878
>>4964905
Alright, before we get to the Pongo’s I need to establish place and date. My grandfather drafted into the US Army in 1968, and was stationed there in country from 68’ to 70’. He was a Seargent in the 1st Infantry and a member of the 28th Infantry Regiment known as the ‘Black Lions’. His unit was deployed to the Michelin Rubber Plantations in the Dầu
Tiếng District of Bình Dươn in order to rout a Vietcong presence in the area. The operation was a success, and his unit was then tasked with entering the Tay Ninh in order to conduct long distance, deep jungle patrols in a preemptive movement to prevent the Viet Cong from flooding the plantation again using the Ho Chi Minh trail.
Now the encounter itself would've occurred sometime in early 1969, between January to March, when his Platoon was conducting ambush and prisoner-taking operations near the Ho-Chi-Minh trail itself. They were on their way back after completing their mission, having ambushed multiple Vietnamese groups traveling down with ox-carts packed full of Chinese AK’s and explosives. They were exhausted and their Platoon leader decided that it was time to set up camp and so the different squads all fanned out to find a suitable clearing for the platoon to set up camp.
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