| Comments:To Lima in 9/67...1st Platoon...patrols, booby traps, snipers (lost men regularly), some mortars, The Riviera and Desert Positions. Transferred to Weapons Platoon as Lima 4, SLF Bravo 11/67, The Street Without Joy - Badger Tooth on 12/27/67, pinned down in the creek bed...superior force - greatly outnumbered by entrenched enemy, many KIA and WIA - WIA minor SFW to neck & ears perforated by 60MM...many more operations, Rockpile, C2, A4, Con Tien, Cau Lu, some booby traps, mines, incoming, mortars, artilery, rockets, company lost nearly 50 men to malaria 5 - 6/68, off SLF Bravo & returned south 6/68, Hills - 10, 37, 55, 127, Arizona Territory, Dodge City - WIA 7/68 (sniper)GSW through the guts & out the back - hospitals to 3/69, Quantico, Pearl Harbor, Retired due to wounds 1/70.Served with Lima 3/1 from 9/67 to 7/68, Weapons Plt, 0369.
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