He is currently a tour guide for the past eleven years at the New Jersey Vietnam Veterans' Memorial, Museum, and Learning Center in Holmdel, New Jersey. Jim contributed his Vietnam experiences to Rutgers Living History Society, which he is currently a member of. In addition to his nine earned military ribbons and medals, he also earned the prestigious Combat Infantryman Badge. /rebates/2f97816086253902fStory-Vietnam-1968-196th-Light-16086253972fplp&. He participated in many combat operations during his tour of duty, where his unit operated in III Corps and I Corps in South Vietnam, performing various airmobile helicopter assaults, daytime combat patrols, search-and-destroy missions, and the always-dangerous night ambush patrols, which he participated in a total of sixty-two times. He served with the 196th Light Infantry Brigade from 1965 through 1967, being deployed in South Vietnam from July 1966 to July 1967 as a senior scout observer in the Reconnaissance Delta Company, 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment. The Marine on the left is carrying three LAAWs (light antiarmor weapons) strapped to his back.Jim McGinnis is a former outside sales professional and retired after forty-three years in the pharmaceutical industry. notch book that tells an almost forgotten story of the last year or two of the involvement of American combat units in Vietnam. Tuo Marines from BLT 2/4 survey the ruins of the hamlet of Dai Do after several days of heavy fighting. Centered on the authors service as a rifle company commander in the 196th Light Infantry Brigade, it describes vividly the experiences of nearly continuous. : Twilight in the Nam: With the 196th Light Infantry Brigade: 9781947309876: Sherwood. Instead Company G, reinforced by the BLT's two ranks, waited at Mai Xa Chanh until about 0830 to board twoĭepartment of Defense (USMC) Photo A19149H Nearly a half-century after their unit left Vietnam, 10 former members of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade were honored Friday. 196th Light Infantry Brigade 45 November 1966. The Navy landing craft that were to carry the Marine company from Mai Xa Chanh to An Loc, however, were not available. Aware of American intentions, North Vietnam undertook a prolonged war of attrition. This is an original unit history and yearbook prepared for the 196th Light Infantry Brigade during its tour in Vietnam. Later that year, a rifle company from the famed 1st. At first, Lieutenant Colonel Weise had planned to have Captain Vargas' Company G make a night landing at An Loc and then launch a predawn attack on Dai Do. As early as mid-1969, an entire company of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade sat down on the battlefield. from An Loc."30Īfter this initial action, there was a relative lull in the fighting largely confined to the continuous artillery shelling of Dai Do, as both sides attempted to marshal and reinforce their forces. May have been "a reinforcing unit looking for the village of Dai Do" In Twilight in the Nam, the author describes his experience as a rifle platoon leader in 1971-72 as a member of Co.C, 1st Battalion, 46th Infantry, the same. Lieutenant Colonel Weise later speculated that the North Vietnamese He was a machine gunner in Company D called Black Death. 196th Light Infantry Brigade, it describes vividly the experiences of. TOUR OF DUTY Rob served in the 196th Light Infantry Brigade of the Army in Vietnam from Jthrough June 3, 1969. Calling in supporting arms as well asĮmploying their own rifle and automatic weapons, the Marines of bothĬompanies H and B participated in what amounted to a "turkey shoot." authors identify two groups of people who must receive the new boss's attention. Gary Lyles’ My Story: Vietnam 1968, 196th Light Infantry Brigade (E-Book Time, 263 pp., 14.95, paper 5.95, Kindle.) scores an A-plus for honesty in recollecting his experiences as a United States Army infantryman in Vietnam. At daybreak, Company H in Dong Huan noticedĪbout 60 enemy soldiers moving across an open field rice paddy west The purest truths come from personal experiences. RM PH69T225th Infantry Division Salute Battery fire canons during 196th Infantry Brigade Vietnam Veterans Recognition Ceremony at Fort Shafter, HI on June. Lieutenant Colonel Weise, who had come ashore by skimmer boat, the company Vietnamese had slipped out of the hamlet. Just before daybreak on 1 May,Ī reconnaissance patrol from Company B in An Loc noticed that the North To insert into the Nhi Ha and Lam Xuan area.29ĭai Do area, however, was far from over. Turned over operational control of the Army battalion to the 3d Marines Him "that the 320th NVA Division had Dong Ha in its sights."28Īt 0900, 1 May, the 3d Battalion, 21st Infantry arrived by helicopter General Rosson remembered Tompkins telling Rosson, the corps commander, to fill any gaps in 196th Light Infantry Brigade, the Prov Corps reserve, from Lieutenant
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