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In May 1969 they loaded us up in several trucks on a convoy
similar to this one, but bigger, and sent us up to the Rockpile
area just north of Stud for a two-week security sweep on Operation
Cameron Falls.
I found traveling by convoy to be much worse than taking a
chopper. It was rough and dusty.
We feared we'd make our first real contact with the NVA on
this trip because it was during Ho Chi Minh's birthday and the
brass expected a big celebratory week of battles. Of course, they
didn't know two things at that time: first the gooks were having
too much fun celebrating Uncle Ho's birthday, and second, the Tet
offensive in 1968 had just about wiped out the VC and NVA in
our area and it was taking a full year to rebuild their fighting
force.
While March, April and May had us new guys wondering if
there was nothing to Vietnam fighting except dodging mortars and
rockets, June and July would teach us otherwise... (Please
see photo No. 9.)
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