B- 5. 2 Project Delta. Dry Holeby Donald. J. Taylor. Sergeant Major (Retired)U. S. Army Special Forces. Project Delta Recon Team Leader. July 1. 96. 8 - July 1. Special Operations Augmentation (SOA) Detachment B- 5. Project Delta), 5th Special. Fundamental Army Assumptions and Labels Flawed The Army lumps M113 Gavin LIGHT tracked AFVs into its 'heavy' units when these 10.5 ton vehicles weigh roughly the same as 22, 000 pound FMTV trucks in use by light units. Earth Force Navy and EFNI. Structures, Organizations, Missions. History of Project Delta - Part I. INTRODUCTION Project Delta, formally an all Vietnamese unit, organized by the Central Intelligence Agency under the code name Leaping Lena, and trained by US Army Special Forces, was. Welcome to Cheatinfo, your number one source for Gamecheats, Action Games, PC Cheats and Codes along with high resolution game. Cheatinfo is updated everyday, so check back often for the latest cheats, codes, hints. 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AO, but occasionally a recon team would be sent into an area. When a. recon team discovered it had been sent in to patrol an AO where there was. AO was called a “Dry Hole.” On the rare occasion when a recon team found it had been dealt a Dry Hole. R& R (Rest and Recuperation) that. However, some of these Dry Holes turned. Dry Holes I experienced while leading long range. Project Delta: Daisy Cutter. In mid November. 1. Project Delta redeployed from a Forward Operating Base (FOB) at the. An Hoa U. S. Marine Corps Base in I Corps and flew directly to III Corps to. FOB beside the runway at the Dong Xoai Special Forces Camp. A week before. Christmas, just as my Recon Team was preparing to pack up and return to. Nha Trang for our promised stand down, we were summoned to the Tactical. Operations Center (TOC) for a mission briefing and my Recon Team was. Kilometer by 1. 0 Kilometer square for a Reconnaissance Area. Operation (AO) in the heavily forested area east of An Loc, Binh Long. Province where intelligence reports indicated numerous NVA. Air Force Forward Air Controller (FAC), Major Roscoe, in. O- 1 Bird dog to take a look at my recon AO and select my infiltration. LZs. Before the. advent of the GPS, finding the exact 1. K by 1. 0K AO out in an area like. AO. and I commenced to look for an LZ in the area I could use for my. My recon team. was inside a 5. LZ was to climb out. The term. “Shooting fish in a barrel” came to mind. By the bunkers’. positioning, we could tell they were just part of the outer defenses of a. Shortly after arriving at Bunard, my recon. Recon AO in an area that. Agent Orange in 1. Before much of it was defoliated, Phuoc Long Province had been completely. Hidden under the trees. Viet Cong base camps and an. Cambodia to the outskirts of Saigon. Because of this, much of the area had. U. S. But now, after four years had. For a recon mission, that had. Immediately following our mission briefing, I flew out with our U. S. Air. Force Forward Air Controller (FAC) in an O- 1 Birddog to conduct a Visual. Reconnaissance (VR) of my Recon AO and select my primary and alternate. Infiltration Landing Zones (LZ). I had patrolled this area with a Company. Montagnard CIDG (Civilian Irregular Defense Group) back in 1. I knew the area well, but I was completely. I saw when we flew into the target area that day. As we approached at about 2,0. AGL (above ground level), I first saw. AO on the horizon as a blob of grayish white that stretched from. When we came closer, I. I had once known was no. The 2. 00- 2. 50 foot tall hardwood trees that were 1. I remembered back to a time four years earlier when I had roamed these. Company of Montagnard tribesmen who were as much a part of. A Montagnard. CIDG Company would move along the forest floor grazing on the occasional. In. fact, those giant trees had played a large part in their animistic. I wondered how these gentle people now felt about how we had. God. Montagnard CIDG Companies were usually made up of a single extended. Montagnard family, with the grandfather being the Company Commander, his. Platoon Leaders were his sons, the Platoon Leader’s sons were Squad. Leaders, Fire Team Leaders were the Squad Leader’s younger brothers, and. Riflemen and BARmen were, for the most part, the teenage boys of the. Montagnards were brave soldiers, excellent hunters, tremendous. U. S. Army Special Forces, but there was a problem with how they were. A Montagnard Company, being a close- knit. As this was a. combat unit made up entirely of close family members, it couldn’t sustain. One of my fondest memories of the time was seeing a thirteen- year- old. Montagnard BARman, brave beyond his years, searching for the Viet Cong. Browning Automatic Rifle through the jungle, and the rifle had. But a memory I could live just as well without is. Platoon Leader, who was also his father, carrying. It had always been a village wide disaster for the women of the tribe when. A war just couldn’t be fought without taking. Many of the forests where these Montagnards had made their home were. Montagnards were nomads and built their log, thatched roofed. In the oldest of these tropical rainforests, the Darwinian principle of. They. had spread their branches, interlocked with other trees of their type, and. As. there was no sunlight allowed to reach the forest floor, no other trees. As different from tropical jungle where visibility was. Much of the life in these tropical rainforests existed in the tops of. Also living up there were. Pterodactyl looking birds with fifteen- foot wingspans. I would have. wondered where those Regiments had gone to now, but I already knew. The. Viet Cong 9th, with all three of its Regiments, had gone into Saigon. Tet Offensive and they never came out; they had died. It took several years for the U. S. Air Force’s Operation “Ranch Hand” to. Cambodian Border and Saigon, and my. Recon AO was now located in a part of this swath. During the time Ranch. Hand was defoliating this swath through Tay Ninh, Bin Long, and Phuoc Long. Provinces, I had been out numerous times on combat operations in these. I eventually became somewhat at ease with defoliation. Agent Orange were a bit. As a herbicide, Agent Orange was most effective during the dry season when. Vietnam would go for months without any appreciable rainfall. In addition to that. Ranch Hand would run their defoliation flights during mid- day when the. The Montagnards called this. Pak” and believed it to be unhealthy to move during this. During the intense heat of. Pak, everyone, even the Viet Cong, would find shade, halt, lie down, and. Only American combat units moved in. East Indian proverb, “Only mad dogs. Englishmen go out in the noonday sun.”It was during one of these Pak time halts when my first experience with. Agent Orange occurred. In the distance, we heard the rumble of a low- level. A1- E Sky. Raider bombers because of the sound of the aircrafts’ reciprocating. As Vietnamese Air Force (VNAF) flew these. AO to be a “Free Fire Zone,” they were liable. When the sound of what we. I could see the look of apprehension on my Montagnard troop’s faces. A. flight of A1- Es could do a lot of damage and we could tell from the sound. About that time, what we had. A1- Es would pass directly overhead just above the treetops. We then knew these aircraft were. A1- E bombers but were twin- engine C- 1. Ranch Hand. and we were in the midst of a defoliation operation. We had been told. Agent Orange was completely harmless to human beings and I had believed. Within minutes of the aircraft passing overhead, leaves would begin to. Thousands of gigantic trees that had stood there. Christ were now dying after receiving a. What started as a rustling of the falling of a few leafs soon. The birds and. the monkeys in the tops of these giant trees would begin to scream and fly. Mountagnards to think the monkeys had been killed. I never understood what had caused these animals to. Agent Orange. defoliation, and I wondered if they had possibly known something I didn’t. I was unable to detect? Could they have. understood that their home, their world, and their life as it had been was. As my Montagnards were as much a part of this forest as were the birds. I reacted. I knew if I. Montagnard Company like wildfire, just as. To show them I was not the least bit. I. lit a cigarette, slowly smoked it and calmly watched the world die around. When I finished my cigarette, I pretended I didn’t even notice we were. I closed my eyes. I was asleep. I wanted my troops to believe nothing was. I. knew deep inside something was badly wrong; I just didn’t know what it. Each time I was caught up in an Agent Orange defoliation operation, I. In the months and years following these Agent Orange defoliations. Montagnards frequently came to me and told me they believed these. Each time this. happened, I told them, and I believed it at the time, Agent Orange was. But, somehow, I don’t. I ever convinced them I was correct in my evaluation of Agent. Orange. That was then and this was now. I had a job to do, and I wondered what the. FAC had thought of my long silence as I stared at the present and thought. I looked down through the skeletal remains of the forest of. What I saw was a wild tangle of small trees. Survival of the fittest was again being contested among the. But for now, it was true that overhead observation could no. I was going to. have to go down there and take a look. I selected an infiltration LZ in a grass- filled clearing bordering the. LZ in another clearing an estimated four. This area north of Phuoc Vinh was rolling. Song Dong Nai River. LZ and my exfiltration LZ. We were only two months. I was fairly confident these streams would still. May, I wouldn’t have bet my life on it. In selecting an infiltration LZ, a route of march, and an exfiltration LZ. One primary consideration, of. But there were other considerations. This was the dry. When moving through this terrain in 1. F) temperature, a. That meant in our movement we. Each man on the team carried six canteens and it was. Wherever I selected an. LZ and an exfiltration LZ, there had to be a daily source of. After the team’s. EEI, but that usually took care of its self; the. During the dry season, when it didn’t rain from December to May in this. South Vietnam, all animal life, both prey and predator, depended.
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