tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34744429.post1470686112475899259..comments2023-11-19T06:49:06.290-05:00Comments on Riding With Mud: The next couple of WeeksMUDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00210979052443058111noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34744429.post-33725334298220999662015-08-20T22:48:17.448-04:002015-08-20T22:48:17.448-04:00When I returned to the unit after being gone for a...When I returned to the unit after being gone for about 12 days, you were probably already infused out. I was not put back in A Battery for some unknown reason, but was assigned to Battalion FDC. Crazy move because I had very little FDC training and certainly not capable of being useful to that section. I spent the next month or so being completely ignored. No one trained me on a thing and I was barely spoken to by either the enlisted men or officers. Battalion FDC still travelled with the 18 guns. We made some moves, and were sent on a two day , one night move south and than west into the mountains to support a ROC (Republic of Korea army) operation. We drove through some of the most beautiful villages I ever saw during my tour, but also drove for miles on a road where all vegetation on both sides for about 25 yards.were nothing more than black lumps. Of course no one knew it was agent orange that had done the job, but at the time on the road it was a god send. We drove past an artillery location where the night before the VC or NVA had breeched the perimeter and blew up FDC among doing some other damage. During one night location we had Snoopy or Spooky firing around us. Amazing sight, as was the Dusters and Quad 50's that fired the night we were on LZ Crystal.<br />We settled on the top of a mountain and had ROC's on our perimeter. It was from this location that I was infused to C/7/13th, 105 unit. At first I was somewhat disappointed to leave the 84th, but the infusion proved to be a good move for me. This unit had been in VN longer than the 84th and the officers and NCO's were very capable. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16395280884226720190noreply@blogger.com