- US 199TH LIGHT INFANTRY BRIGADE VIETNAM PATCH PATCH
- US 199TH LIGHT INFANTRY BRIGADE VIETNAM PATCH WINDOWS
I arrived at the 26th base camp and reported to the first sergeant as required. The 26th Infantry Regiment was also known as the “Blue Spaders”. There were several units around that village and we were one of them. The 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division was located outside of a village called Phouc Vinh which was about 30 miles north of Siagon. I had excellent map reading ability and was able to calculate line of site distance with ease.
Their job is to call in fire missions on suspected enemy positions – I was very good at my job. I was assigned to the mortar platoon as a gunner and worked my way up to a forward observer, or FO. I went back to the replacement center, packed up my clothes and personal belongings and was driven to the airport where a helicopter was waiting to take me and several other men to our new unit.īefore I go any further, I should tell you that my military occupational specialty (MOS) was in heavy weapons, MOS 112, which was 42mm Mortars. I was assigned to Company A, 1st Battalion, 26 th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division. I laid in my bunk for those four days listening to artillery shells and bombs dropping day and nightįinally one morning at roll call, I was told to report to personal to pickup my unit assignment orders and that I should get ready to be air lifted to my new unit. It was actually four days before my assignment orders came in. I was assigned a bunk and told it would be two-to-three days before I was assigned to my new unit.
US 199TH LIGHT INFANTRY BRIGADE VIETNAM PATCH WINDOWS
We were loaded on a military bus with wire mesh over the windows and taken to a replacement center not far from the airport. Upon arriving in Vietnam the first thing I remember was hearing the artillery shelling in the background – it was constant. We stopped in Hawaii to refuel but were not allowed to get off the plane. It was Christmas Eve and I was scheduled to go to a civilian’s family Christmas Eve celebration that evening but my shipping orders came down and I had to cancel my invitation. 24, 1965 at 7 p.m., I departed Oakland, California for Vietnam.
They said if I extended my tour of duty for another eighteen months they would send me, so I did and they did. I went to Personal and asked them to send me they told me that I did not have enough time remaining in the service to be shipped to Vietnam. All my buddies were being shipped out to Vietnam and I wanted to go. 6, 1965 on my 21 st birthday and was promoted to sergeant E-5 that same day. I was one of 20 men picked out of all of Fort Hood to go to an eight week course called Noncommissioned Officers Academy. I was sent to Fort Hood, Texas where I also excelled. Before I left Korea, I was put in for the rank of sergeant (Sgt.) E-5, but I did not have enough time in the military to receive that promotion. In Korea I was promoted from private, (Pvt.), to private first class, (Pfc.) and then to specialist 4 th class, (SPC-4), which is equivalent to a corporal. I liked the Army and I tried my best to excel.
US 199TH LIGHT INFANTRY BRIGADE VIETNAM PATCH PATCH
I wanted to wear the 1st Calvary patch (stupid): I wanted to at least make Sergeant E-5, (dumb) and I wanted to know what combat was like (very stupid).Īfter training, my first assignment was in Korea with the 1st Battalion, 7th Calvary Regiment, 1 st Calvary Division, the big yellow and black shoulder patch with a horse on it. I wanted to accomplish three things when I got out of training. When you’re young and stupid you think and do certain things that you wouldn’t if you were an adult. They were actually training me to be an instructor of new recruits at Fort Hood, Texas. I had enlisted for three years and my tour of duty would be over in about nine months. The first being that I was the sole surviving son in my family and the second was that I didn’t have enough time remaining in the service to go. I was one of the lucky ones that didn’t have to go to Vietnam, I had two good excuses. No greater love hath man then to lay down his life for his friend – John 15: 13 Daley, who was also killed that same day in Phu Loi Provence. Holloway, who was killed on May 29,1966 in Phu Loi Provence, Republic of South Vietnam. This manuscript is dedicated to medic Pfc. 9 last year, just three days after his 72nd birthday – leaving behind his wife, son, daughter and eight grandchildren. He also left behind his story of service in Vietnam to honor two fellow soldiers killed in action. Vietnam Veteran Peter Brusyo Jr. passed away on Aug.
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