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A "Tropic Lightning News" from Feb. 8, 1971 with a quote by you !!

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Delta Redlegs Lower the Boom On Three Enemy

The Redlegs of Delta Battery, 1st Battalion 8th Field Artillery were credited with three VC killed when they fired support for a recon patrol January 8th.
The action took place about 5 clicks northwest of Delta Battery?s location, Fire Support Base Beverely.
The skirmish was initiated when a recon patrol of the 1st Battalion 27th Infantry (Wolfhounds) rounded a curve in the trail they were walking on and came face to face with a group of eight VC walking down the trail. The patrol immediately opened up on the VC with their M-16 ?s and M-79?s. Within minutes they had radioed in their location and asked for artillery support. Delta Battery 1st of the 8th responded and dropped a total of 40 HE 105 howitzer rounds in on the enemies location.
Captain Sidney G. Herndon, 1/8 liason officer explained, ?The artillery rounds started a fire and the recon patrol was not able to search the area until the following morning. When they did recon the area they found no trace of the VC. But a few days later C Company 1/27 uncovered a grave in almost the same location that the recon patrol had ran into the VC. The grave contained three bodies, and Delta Battery was given credit for all three kills.?
Delta Battery, commanded by Captain John Mitchell, was formerly Bravo Battery 2d Battalion 77th Artillery. However, they were transferred to the Automatic Eighth when the 2/77th pulled out of Vietnam.
On January 16 Bravo Battery had a busy night firing 449 rounds for a contact mission and having to unload chinooks that flew in ammo to them.
In other recent activity within the Battalion, Alfa Battery, at fire Support Base Custer in the Sparrow Valley region, had a brush fire that resulted in contact with the enemy. The fire, started by parachute flares, threatened to burn a grove of banana trees. To prevent the destruction of the banana tress, six men were sent out to extinguish the fire. To get to the fire they had to cross a small ravine. In the ravine the men came into contact with an estimated ten to twelve VC. They engaged the VC with their M-16?s and made a hasty retreat to the berm.