04-20-2022, 03:45 PM
Missed it by a few months, and was actually in the last Recondo class of the Division before General Westmoreland's successors dismantled the provisional schools. I regretted losing some of those instructors. spent a very short stint in the Phillipines, then Korea doing work on assignment instructing. My father was the head of a group called the Dusty Seven out of Quang Tri in 68-69 ended up MIA for a short period. They cut his tour short and we went to Rhode Island where he served as an instructor for inbound SeaBees for ambush, tunnel search and search-and-destroy work. I learned a lot about the AK and SKS platforms from my Dad and his contemporaries when I got to visit the school. Sure was a different time...