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The infantry duty took its inevitable toll on the Bravo Company troops, who were awarded a total of 24 Purple Heart medals - 13 of them for troops killed in action, said former Spc. It was insane, but it worked,' Bogison said. For places the PBRs could not go, the Bravo Company troops also had Boston whalers driven by 25-horsepower Johnson outboards. 'They paired us up with some of the 458th transportation people' to drive the boat, and 'we received on-the-job training as gunners and as coxswains' on PBRs, or 'Patrol Boats, Riverine,' the type of craft seen in the movie 'Apocalypse Now,' Bogison said. (Chieu Hoi, or 'open arms,' was the term used for the program to encourage the enemy to defect.) 5 Robert Bogison, whose book 'Up Close & Personal: In-Country, Chieu Hoi, Vietnam 1969-1970' influenced Latta to press the case for awards to Bravo Company. 'We had our own navy as well,' said former Spc. We just trained everybody as they came in,' he said.

'Guys would come in, they would go out and learn on the job. But 'it was a very difficult process' in transforming a military police unit into a cohesive infantry company. He had gone through infantry training back in the States, Solomonson said, and he relied on the expertise of his noncommissioned officers. They accepted the mission,' which was called Operation Stabilize, and they accepted the on-the-job training in the infantry basics of combat patrolling, setting up ambushes, and perimeter defense, Solomonson said. 'I didn't have a problem with troops complaining. logistical base in Vietnam northeast of Saigon, was an exercise in adaptability, said then-Capt. 'That's what we owe our citizen soldiers.'įor the citizen soldiers of Bravo Company, taking on the infantry mission of deterring enemy sappers from attacking Long Binh Post, the largest U.S. 'We're digitizing all of it online' for possible storage in the Library of Congress, Drew said. Once the WWII search is complete, the plan is to move on to the Korean War and then possibly later conflicts.

Recently, Human Resources Command began screening more than a million WWII records, 'and from that we've upgraded some awards,' Drew said. In the field, paperwork could get lost or commanders may not have found time to submit the required forms, Drew said.

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