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Old 1st July 2008 | 20:36
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Darkhorse30
 
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Sasless,
I don't recognize that name. We had scouts of course, but B Company of the 1st Aviation Battalion (not to be confused with 1st Aviation Brigade), 1st ID also had OH-6's and along with their Cobras conducted some Hunter-Killer missions, though not as many as we did. We flew Hunter-Killer missions almost exclusively.
Our unit was Dark Horse. Our scout platoon leader, Hugh Mills later wrote a book called "Low Level Hell" which was not exactly accurate as far as who did what. We had Pipe Smoke as well as Black Cat haul our aircraft out of the bush after being shot up, which happened often.
The AO was pretty intense with a lot of .51 cal shooting at us, but the Delta was a lot worse. The shallow water table down south of My Tho didn't allow for deep bunkers so the NVA had to stay topside and shoot it out with us when we found them.
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