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Old 07-08-2012, 16:04   #17
SOG One-Zero
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Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Oceanside, CA
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Originally Posted by Geenie View Post
Can someone shed some light on his statement? I would have assumed that such a specialized unit - operating at the highest level of secrecy, with missions of strategic importance - would have had access to the best equipment available, no?
Geenie,
The commo situation was bitterly frustrating and when it failed, deadly.
We put in numerous requests for better commo.
We carried URC-10s for emergency commo with US air assets, which included a beeper that they could hone in on, but the commo was our achilles heal.
One major clue: Some One-Zeros began changing the primary LZ without telling Saigon, only Covey. In most cases, the insertions went smoothly.
Once, when our Kingbee was descending into an LZ, our VN TEam Leader spotted a trip wire across the LZ, which was tied to a 500-pound bomb. That's how bad things got.
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