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Originally Posted by Mitch
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Not quite the same experiance for me and Rodney (Tolentino). We both walked into the Orderly Room of A Company, 6th - the CQ said that the entire company was out at Lake Nantahala in western NC - for EDH Support. The CQ said that he did not know what B Team or A Team we would be assinged to but he had been told that as soon as we showed up he was to get us all our CIF Issue stuff and put us on a Duce-in-half and send us on out to Nantahala so that we could pull KP and act as Isolation Area Guards.
And so it began....
(Just a note - back then, the B-Team is what we now call the "Company," the Company is now called the "Battalion" - so A-Company would now be called 1st BN)
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The Company was partly at Robbinsville, NC, and; others were all around Fontana lake, Santeetlah (sp) was there, too. I was back at Bragg as Major W and his 173 RD herd XO damn sure knew all. Frankly, I was not too keen on these officers. Hell, we had a sharp CPT come in as S-3 named T.L. Smith. Maj W, thought a prior SOG CPT was what the S-2 NCOIC needed. WRONG.
Hell, Dale Libbey had been our S-2 in Omega/C-5/CCS. He damn sure did not need my sad ass around him. Dale and I went back to the great INTEL he gave in early Nov 68. We hit an enemy company in their base camp.
Dale was that damn good as the MI Officers basic course was a damn joke next to Dale.
I do recall SFOC classes were numbered by 1-68 for 1st of FY 68 , actual year 1967, and 2-68, which I graduated from on 15 Dec 67 was the class of 67. Colonel Maroney was a fine CPT in that course. He took my sad ass through the E&E phase. He damn sure knew his shit. We also had a Major in our class and so called A team. That was kept very hush hush ,
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