9th Chemical Detachment, supported by B Company, 25th Aviation Battalion, uses an airmobile personnel detector in support of 2d Brigade operations. Company C, 1st Battalion, 27th Inf conducted sweep to prevent enemy infiltration near Saigon. 22d Inf and LTC Peter McGurl, Commander, 25th Aviation Battalion. Discusses operations during 1968. Platoon heliborne assaults within a battalion area, seeking targets of opportunity.
Area of operations is northeast of Saigon.
Company ran into a contact from which it was forced to withdraw after many of its armored personnel carriers were hit by RPG rounds. Platoon Eagle Flights, 19-20 June 1968. A platoon is landed in a hot landing zone. 25th Infantry Division Meeting engagement at an enemy base camp by a rifle company 30 August 1967. Interview by OCMH, MAJ John Cash.