Best Moment Finding this in the "Old Breed News, January-February 2006, edition." ... " We were attacked continually at Phu Loc 6 all the time we were there. We took thirteen direct hits from enemy mortar fire on the FDC bunker during that time. Then one day a helicopter dropped off a counter-mortar radar unit. We had never seen one of these things before, but it was very welcome. We were constantly under fire and we needed all the help we could get, so we set it up right away and the accompanying radar Maries fired it up. Unfortunately, we made the mistake of setting the radar unit up near the FDC. We got a call at about 1000 this one morning from the radar operators letting us know that there were about 45 incoming enemy mortar rounds in the air. We immediately started firing counter fire, and had sixty 81mm mortar rounds in the air flying towards the enemy mortars within a few minutes. Unfortunately, we ended up taking 23 direct hits on the FDC and the radar unit was hit so many times it looked like a sieve! The enemy knew exactly what the radar unit was, and tried to take it out as fast as possible. We got hit really hard, but it was one of the few times when our counter mortar fire accounted for a bunch of secondary explosions."
Worst Moment Not being able to locate any or all of those "Brothers" who helped me set up the counter mortar radar unit, and those who stood those long nights, manning our watches, looking at that 4" screen, & waiting for those enemy incoming mortars.
