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>>>Trying to find anyone who served fromJan 1967 to Feb >>>1968. >>>When we had mortor attack at the rock crusher. Or >>>when we were attacked on our way thru an kaye pass. >>>Would like to here from any one company a. >> >> >>Hi...i saw your posting on the 84th engineers bulletin >>board. >> >>I was in A company after the 73rd relocated from phu >>tai to bong son. I worked at the qaurry site, in the >>maintenence platoon. >> >>I was in Phu Tai from Feb 1967 to March 1968. I >>remember some kind of stuff going on out at the quarry >>site around the time of the Tet Offensive, I never >>knew if it was mortars or artillery or what the hell >>it was....stuff going right over our heads all night >>though. and I remember a number of times of satchel >>charges going off at A company compound. >> >> I was on guard duty a lot during that tet offensive >>guarding the ice plant there in phu tai, and some >>bullets whizzing around there. >> >>I also remember being on guard duty out at the quarry >>one night when we discovered a whole lot of people >>moving like ants up on that mountain behind the >>crushers..not where we were blasting rock, but where >>the vietnamese made their charcoal. It turned out I >>guess that they were ROK, Vietnamese and American >>troops making a major move pushing VC & NVA farther >>north or something...who the hell knows what was going >>on....we radioed in to the Officer of the guard, he >>checked into it and then told us to abandon our quarry >>site and go back to our compound. >> >>Also remember seeing a mini-gun being fired on that >>mountian during the night one time after an >>observation plane dropped a high level flare lighting >>the place up like daytime....scared the crap out of >>us. We had no idea what a minigun was at the time. >>We asked some MPs the next dayw aht it was..theys aid >>it was the mini gum . we thought the c130 it was >>fired from was on fire or something..looked like >>burning fuel coming out the bottom of it...but that >>was hot lead tracers i guess. .we were working out >>there on 12 hour shifts at the time, crushing rock 24 >>hours a day.

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