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CHRONOLOGY |
CAC 1 - DELTA 4 - CAP 2-3-4 CHRONOLOGY |
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SEPTEMBER 1966...GREG HAMMOND AND OTHER MARINES START FIRST CONSTRUCTION ON THE BUNKERS AT CAC 1. |
MAY 15, 1967.. LCPL. EMERSON, CPL. ORTIZ AND ANOTHER MARINE ARE KIA WHEN DELTA 4 IS ATTACKED. |
SEPTEMBER 10, 1967...DELTA 4 COMPOUND IS OVERRUN, 7 MARINES KIA AND 7 MARINES ARE WIA. THE NAMES ARE AT THE DELTA CAP KIA LIST PAGE. |
SEPTEMBER 16, 1967...CPL. CLAY, LCPL MCEVOY AND LCPL MARKLEY ARRIVE AT DELTA 4 AS REPLACEMENTS. |
SEPTEMBER...SEABEES BEGIN WORK ON FRAMEWORK FOR NEW BUNKERS. |
OCTOBER...UNIT AND SURROUNDING VILLAGES ARE FLOODED. |
OCTOBER...MARINES WHO HAD BEEN TAD AT DELTA 4 MOVE NORTH WITH THEIR UNIT, 5TH MARINES. R.D.'S (REVOLUNTIONARY DEVELOPEMENT TEAM MEMBERS) REPLACES THEM AT NIGHT. TWO NIGHTS LATER RD TEAM AND ONE MARINE AMBUSH A VIET CON AND NVA PATROL. ONE ENEMBY KIA. OCTOBER 23...OBSERVATION PLANE SHOT DOWN ACROSS THE RIVER FROM THE UNIT. PILOT'S CALL SIGN WAS 'BEECHMARK OR BENCHMARK 4'. DELTA 4 REACTIONARY FORCE PROVIDES SECURITY FOR THE PILOT AND PLANE. OCTOBER...JANSEN'S PATROL IS PINNED DOWN BY HOSTILE FIRE JUST OUTSIDE THE COMPOUND NEAR THE MAIN GATE. ONE OF THE P.F.'S 'BONE' DRIVES AWAY THE ATTACKING FORCE WITH AN M-79GRENADE LAUNCHER. |
NOVEMBER 5...LCPL. BERTULLI IS KILLED WHEN A P.F. SETS OFF A CLAYMORE MINE AL WAS SETTING OUT. NOVEMBER 19...MARINE CORPS BIRTHDAY WAS CELEBRATED BY EATING C-RATIONS AND DAY AND NIGHT PATROLS. NOVEMBER...'DOC' JOHN NEWMAN AND ONE OF THE MARINES DELIVERED A VIETNAMESE BABY IN THE WEST VILLAGE. NOVEMBER...MARINE ENGINEERS CAME OUT TO BUILD TWO HOOCHES FOR THE UNIT. THANKGIVING...'BEECHMARK 4' DROPPED MESS CANISTERS WITH HOT STEAKS AND WARM BREAD FOR THE MARINES OF DELTA 4. |
DECEMBER 2...TOM WALKER'S PATROL IS AMBUSHED AT DELTA 2, 3 MARINES KIA AND ONE SURVIVOR. THE SAME DAY A PATROL FROM DELTA 3 INTERCEPTED THE NVA FORCE THAT AMBUSHED WALKER'S PATROL A HEAVY FIREFIGHT RESULTED IN RODGER REGNIER BEING WOUND IN ACTION. DECMEBER...F-4 SHOT DOWN ON THE SOUTHWESTERN END OF THE DELTA 4 TAOR. A DELTA 4 REACTIONARY FORCE IS PINNED DOWN IN THE SAND DUNES BY SMALL ARMS AND MORTAR FIRE. SPOTTER PLANE CALLED IN NAPALM ON THE ENEMY POSITION. DECEMBER...'BEECHMARK 4' DROPPD SMALL TENSILE CHRISTMAS TREE AND PLAYBOY MAGAZINES FOR THE MARINES FOR CHRISTMAS. DECEMBER...A LARGE NVA FORCE IS SPOTTED MOVING AROUND THE OUTSIDE OF THE PERIMETER. LARGE FIREFIGHT RESULTED IN SOME OF THE VILLAGERS COMING INTO THE COMPOUND THE NEXT DAY FOR TREATMENT OF WOUNDS. ONE OLD LADY WAS MEDI-VACCED BY HELICOPTER TO DANANG. DECEMBER...ONE OF THE P.F.'S WAS MEDI-EVACCED WHEN HIS FOOT WAS NEARLY BLOW OFF BY A FOOT MINE SET JUST OUTSIDE THE COMPOUND. DECEMBER 25...PATROLS DAY AND NIGHT. SGT. JOHNSON PREPARED B-RATION HAMBURGERS FOR CHRISTMAS DINNER. DECEMBER 31, 1967...NEW YEAR'S EVES SPENT ON PATROL. AUTOMATIC WEAPONS FIRE BETWEEN THE COMPOUND AND THE PATROL THAT WAS OUT, NO CONTACT MADE. |
JANUARY 2, 1968...INTELLIGENCE REPORTED A LARGE NVA FORCE WAS GOING TO ATTACK DELTA 4. A FIRETEAM FROM DELTA 4 LINKED UP WITH A PLATOON FROM 1ST MARINES TO SET AN AMBUSH AND ACT AS A REACTIONARY FORCE, AT ABOUT 2000 HOURS THAT NIGHT. JANUARY 3, 1968...AT ABOUT 300 HOURS DELTA 5 WAS ATTACKED AND OVERRUN. ELEVEN MARINES WERE KIA INCLUDING CPL. CLAY WHO HAD BEEN TRANSFERRED FROM DELTA 4. AFTER DAWN TWO MARINES FROM DELTA 4, EDMUNDS AND MARKLEY, WERE TAKEN TO DELTA 5 TO PROVIDE SECURITY AND HELP CLEAN UP THE UNIT. JANUARY 1968...INCIDENT WITH THE KOREANS HARRASSING LOCAL VILLAGERS. FIRETEAM FROM DELTA 4 WENT TO REPORT IT TO THE COMMANDING OFFICER OF THE KOREANS. THE KOREANS WERE SEVERLY DISCIPLINED ON THE SPOT BY THER OFFICERS AND NCO'S. KOREAN C.O. SAID HE WOULD SEND CAMMO FATIQUES OVER TO US SO HIS PEOPLE WOULDN'T FIRE ON THE DELTA 4 PATROLS. JANUARY 1968...DELTA FIRETEAM NEARLY WALKED INTO A NVA AMBUSH ON A NIGHT PATROL. LARGE FIREFIGHT INSUED, NO FRIENDLY CASUALITIES. JANUARY 1968...COMPOUND TOOK FIRE FRO ACROSS THE RIVER. PUFF WAS CALLED IN. SGT. JOHNSON'S HAND WAS INJURED TRYING TO GET A L.A.W. TO FIRE. HE WAS MEDI-VACCED THE NEXT DAY BY JEEP. IT WAS HIS THIRD PURPLE HEART...HE THOUGHT. JANUARY 19, 1968...LCPL. MARKLEY WIA WHILE LOADING M-60 IN NORTHEAST BUNKER. TAKEN OUT BY MEDI-EVAC HUEY. JANUARY 24, 1968...CPL ARTHUR JANSEN WHO HAD BEEN TRANSFERRED TO ANOTHER DELTA CAP UNIT DIED OF SUSPECTED POISONING. JANUARY 30, 1968...TET OFFENSIVE OF 1968 BEGINS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. |
FEBRUARY 17, 1968...CPL. NOBLE KIA WHILE THROWING A HAND GRENDADE IN AN ENEMY BUNKER. MARCH 7, 1968...CPL. BRITTON KIA, SHOT AT THE MAIN GATE OF DELTA 4. APRL 30, 1968...SGT. PAUL JOHNSON KIA WHEN THE TRUCK HE WAS RIDING IN HIT A MINE. MAY 23, 1968...GSGT. TOM ACTON AND CPL. STEVEN OLSEN WERE AMBUSHED AND KIA ON THE WAY TO HOI AN. AUGUST 16, 1968...CPL. ROBERT GARDNER KILLED IN ACCIDENTAL EXPLOSION. AUGUST OR SEPTEMBER 1968, DESIGNATION OF DELTA 4 CHANGED TO CAP 2-3-4. LATER THE COMPOUND WAS ABANDONED AND CAP 2-3-4 BECAME A MOBILE CAP. MARCH 1969...RICK WIEGAND ARRIVED AT CAP 2-3-4 AND THE NAME CHANGE HAD BEEN IN FORCE FOR SOME TIME. JUNE 10, 1969...CAP 2-3-4 MARINES SUPPORTED A SWEEP DONE BY ARVN FORCES JUST OUTSIDE THERE TAOR EAST TOWARD 2nd CAG HDQRTS AT HOI AN. WHEN THE NVA FLED THEIR UNDERGROUND BUNKERS THE 2-3-4 MARINES FIRED THEIR 81mm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|
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