Darkhorse 30 - Fast forward to Nov 1970, please. We were E Troop 3/17th based at 334th (northeast side of Phu Loi), Op Con to 1/9th, with tents at Quan Loi doing CCS. Did you perchance fly the XV15?
Interesting to know the Delta was a lot worse. Some RVN helo books are a bit much to me though some professional and informative. I guess one never knows how others perceive such work and later pen it to paper. Some guys really had a much tougher time over there than I did.
Flew out of Chau Duc to places north for awhile but in our time frame things were hot and cold so I couldn't say things were a lot worse there than flying out of QL to the north. Of course QL north got hot @May 1971 for a short time, replete with tanks and ZSU 23/4, etc.
Regards.