Co. B later engages ten Viet Cong wearing uniforms, steel helmets with camouflage covers and armed with automatic weapons. Nahas' Charlie Company encounters three Viet Cong wearing black pajamas and engages them with negative results. Winston C. Hamilton, a rifleman in Lt. Donald Love's 3rd Platoon, Bravo Company becomes the first paratrooper in the battalion to be wounded by enemy fire. 30 Thanksgiving Day.
Paratroopers conduct refitting activities in place.
Operation ROSE terminates at 2400 hours. 2 Song Mao. The Battalion Forward Tactical Operation Center moves by truck convoy to Song Mao. Love's 3rd Platoon stops to rest and eat. He sends out clover-leaf patrols.