Combined Action Company-Viet Nam

03/04/2017

Just found map proof that CAC 4/Hotel 1/Loc Bon Village became in the numeric system CAP 3-5-1..at long last I have a numeric identification!. Thank you Bill Nimmo..

01/23/2017

01/03/2016

I am always in search of guys who served in CAC-4, Alpha 3, Hotel 1 - all the same place - Loc Bon Village. Looking in particular for Aurelio Gonzaled jr.(Texas), Greg Boggs (Panama City Beach Fl), Jim St. Germain, (Ft. Lauderdale Fl), Bob Calderwood, (Boston), Bill Schroeder (Michigan), Jon Greer (New Jersey by way of Tennessee State)- he was also at CAC 10 or a double CAC south of Phu Loc after CAC 4, Roosevelt Smith (Philly), John Wilson (Littlejohn), D.F. "Don" Wilson of California

03/18/2015

Somebody asked me what armament did we have. In August 1966 the squad of 12-15 Marines and a single Navy corpsman lived in the village of Loc Bon. We had a training job working with approximately 40 Popular Forces. PFs were men who were either too old for the regular ARVN, too young for the ARVN or in some cases veterans. they lived in their home village and had slight military duties during daylight and more responsibilities for village security at night. On a nightly basis 5 Marines, 5 PFs and the corpsman would set out around 9 pm. to establish an ambush. 60-90 minutes of walking in the dark. 306 hours of laying in an ambush sight site and then another 60 minutes or so returning in the dark to the main village. A typical Marine's load when I arrived was a fully automatic M-14, 200 rounds of magazined ammo, 4-6 gr***des, 2-3 pop flares of various colors, a K-bar knife, 1-2 canteens of water, a first aid kid,. One marine carried a "blooper" gr***de launcher with as many as 40 rounds of ammo. One Marine carried a PRC-25 radio and he might also have a .45 pistol as well as a rifle. One Marine might carry a shotgun but sacrificing an automatic weapon for a shotgun on ambush was not considered wise.. The PFs were generally armed with WW II vintage M-1 or carbines. they would have approximately 100 rounds of ammo. they would also have a couple gr***des. Uniform of he night really varied from Marine Corps utilities to WW II vintage camo, to VN Tiger Stripe to USCamo to "jungle utilities in OD or camo. Helmets were never worn, nor were flak jackets. camo face paint was not uncommon but not used nightly. We had an M-60 machine gun but it generally remained back in the village unless there was specific info that indicated a high degree of reliability that contact with VC/NVA was likely. The picture below is an example of the WWII era camo uniforms with the 2 Marinres on the right and "tiger stripe" camo on the Marine on the left.

10/23/2012

L/Cpl Gonzalez-Great Marine, Lil Phuoc-Good PF, Cpl Boggs-Radioman w/Biet Kichs, Cpl Mike Letson-Point & Patrol Leader September 1966

08/20/2012

Nhan in the street with Vui

08/20/2012

Nhan and Vui after getting their hair "Americanized"

08/20/2012

Hamlet Chief, An Nong 2

08/20/2012

Co Quay An Nong 1