All thought "SHARE" a resource that might add/shed some light on what some Vietnam Veteran's went through during years 1969-1970: http://www.recordsofwar.com/vietnam/army/ or as tilted"The US Army in Vietnam"-"The Bud Harton Collection at the Texas Tech Virtual Vietnam Archive" and might be a "huge" resource for Vietnam Veterans to "legitimatize" a claim US DVA if records lost and/or destroyed????? (Wonder why US DVA not utilizing- as well- for clearly outlines/delineates "criteria" for "permission" for incursions into Laos, Cambodia, etc...which a C&P Reviewer denied a Vietnam Vet I knew because we were supposedly never there..... see 1969 Operation "Apache Snow!")
It has "first hand accounts" on utilization "flak-jacket's" and "ceramic" helicopter Armour plates for additional protection- sound "familiar" the "utilization" of "advisors" which oddly had same issues as "advisor's" in Iraq/Afghanistan, etc.... and finally 1969's Operation "Apache Snow" (at https://vva.vietnam.ttu.edu/repositories/2/digital_objects/332187 & attached below) which across the board is highly "Illuminating!" from numerous perspectives....
What is striking is the how detailed and in depth all of these reports and accounts go, and that they were in fact kept by on-duty historians in beyond "incredible"...
Also, IAW this website- at https://vva.vietnam.ttu.edu/repositories/2/digital_objects/332176 - "ARMY 1969 SPEC OPS GRP CMD HISTORY" item Number 168300010541 - started "digitizing" records....I guess with "punch cards" to "magnetic tape" so might there still not be "digital" copies of US Vietnam Veterans out ther somewhere, even though "paper" copies burned????(think good question VFW, American Legion, etc.. should perhaps look into?????) [See Attached Below]
Vietnam VET's out there may be able to utilize these document's as proof of a "claim" with the US DVA, etc......specifically if have lost records in like the St. Louis fire of the 1970's????
Well hope this may assist some folks out there.....????????
PS: Know Veteran that was in-around some of these "predecessor" unit's (like 17th IN, etc...) and perhaps around some of these folks mentioned in these reports... they will find interesting as well their US DVA Provider's ......?????
This thread/post taken in part from PEBForum thread/post http://pebforum.com/threads/saunders-v-united-states.43987/ "Saunders vs. United States"
NOTE: All attached files below from: http://www.recordsofwar.com/vietnam/army/ -"The US Army in Vietnam"-The Bud Harton Collection at the -Texas Tech Virtual Vietnam Archive
It has "first hand accounts" on utilization "flak-jacket's" and "ceramic" helicopter Armour plates for additional protection- sound "familiar" the "utilization" of "advisors" which oddly had same issues as "advisor's" in Iraq/Afghanistan, etc.... and finally 1969's Operation "Apache Snow" (at https://vva.vietnam.ttu.edu/repositories/2/digital_objects/332187 & attached below) which across the board is highly "Illuminating!" from numerous perspectives....
What is striking is the how detailed and in depth all of these reports and accounts go, and that they were in fact kept by on-duty historians in beyond "incredible"...
Also, IAW this website- at https://vva.vietnam.ttu.edu/repositories/2/digital_objects/332176 - "ARMY 1969 SPEC OPS GRP CMD HISTORY" item Number 168300010541 - started "digitizing" records....I guess with "punch cards" to "magnetic tape" so might there still not be "digital" copies of US Vietnam Veterans out ther somewhere, even though "paper" copies burned????(think good question VFW, American Legion, etc.. should perhaps look into?????) [See Attached Below]
Vietnam VET's out there may be able to utilize these document's as proof of a "claim" with the US DVA, etc......specifically if have lost records in like the St. Louis fire of the 1970's????
Well hope this may assist some folks out there.....????????
PS: Know Veteran that was in-around some of these "predecessor" unit's (like 17th IN, etc...) and perhaps around some of these folks mentioned in these reports... they will find interesting as well their US DVA Provider's ......?????
This thread/post taken in part from PEBForum thread/post http://pebforum.com/threads/saunders-v-united-states.43987/ "Saunders vs. United States"
NOTE: All attached files below from: http://www.recordsofwar.com/vietnam/army/ -"The US Army in Vietnam"-The Bud Harton Collection at the -Texas Tech Virtual Vietnam Archive
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