Post by Anonymous Vet on Nov 29, 2003 0:26:06 GMT -5
Strike and Counter-strike Advisors in Action
November 1968, Capt. Robert F. Olson, 33, took over a US Army five-man Mobile Advisory Team in Anphuc. The Americans live austerely in a Popular Forces (PF) fort (mud, logs, barbed wire and bamboo) and buy most of their food on the local market.
Olson has had some brushes with the Viet Congo Four months ago, accompanied by a US sergeant carrying an M-60 machine gun, the captain went on patrol with the part-time unpaid People's Defense squad of Thuthan hamlet. They ran into the Viet Cong as the latter were approaching to attack the hamlet's PF outpost.
"We opened up with the M-60,"Olsonsaid. "We wounded two water buffalo, four chickens and one duck. But I think we also got some of the VC. They fired back and pulled away." The hamlet chief promptly led a PF relief force from the outpost to help. But the Viet Cong had set up an ambush. Several of the PF were wounded. One was left behind. He dismantled his rifle and waited in the dark for rescue. Olson carried him out. Washington Post
November 1968, Capt. Robert F. Olson, 33, took over a US Army five-man Mobile Advisory Team in Anphuc. The Americans live austerely in a Popular Forces (PF) fort (mud, logs, barbed wire and bamboo) and buy most of their food on the local market.
Olson has had some brushes with the Viet Congo Four months ago, accompanied by a US sergeant carrying an M-60 machine gun, the captain went on patrol with the part-time unpaid People's Defense squad of Thuthan hamlet. They ran into the Viet Cong as the latter were approaching to attack the hamlet's PF outpost.
"We opened up with the M-60,"Olsonsaid. "We wounded two water buffalo, four chickens and one duck. But I think we also got some of the VC. They fired back and pulled away." The hamlet chief promptly led a PF relief force from the outpost to help. But the Viet Cong had set up an ambush. Several of the PF were wounded. One was left behind. He dismantled his rifle and waited in the dark for rescue. Olson carried him out. Washington Post