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59. I Never Really Went Out On Operations. But We Were Sometimes Nearby. For Example.

Wed Feb 21, 2018, 12:14 AM

Feb 2018

I am not sure where the other clerks were but assume they were with their companies on a firebase. I was on a beach north of Da Nang for a while. I convoyed to LZ Stud past Dong Ha and then was on that LZ for several days during the beginning of operation Pegasus. I was near An Khe 1st Cav base while they were being relocated to I Corp. I was on a multiple brigade fire base called Jane for around 3 months. All the company clerks were there and we all worked in the same tent. And the last month in Nam I was at a base called our division base Camp Evans until I left for the US. November 68 the Cav was sent to Tay Nihn Province.

Of course if you ended up on a small base and it was attacked you became infantry. We always had our weapon and ammo on us.

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