Mat Teams Vietnam

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Mat teams vietnam.

The nco s were a medic light weapons infantry and heavy crew served weapons infantry. Roger me sfc herbert an doc tully. Point and drag were standing in the machine gunner s line of fire glaring at him. I wrote that mat 76 consisted of roger corrado doc tully sfc house and lt steve norris.

Macv teams were out there alone not on base camps air bases or at sea. I watch news clips on tv in 2004 as young american soldiers in iraq patrol the streets of baghdad and cringe when they are blown up by ied s improvised explosive devices and are shot at by terrorist snipers who fade away into the crowd. This website has been established for former advisory team members military and civilian as well as fac s shotguns naval air force and coast guard liaisons and anyone else attached to a team including. Posted on october 14 2020 by macv teams.

The machine gunner had wanted to shoot. But how would young american soldiers inserted into a middle eastern culture unable to. We met on mat 76. My memory is not strong after 50 years but i have notes from that time.

Counterinsurgency and the mat teams in vietnam by rich webster. I corps in the northern part of south vietnam. Small groups of americans often in remote areas supported only by vietnamese forces whose capabilities and loyalty were sometimes suspect. Ii corps in the central region.

Find out the tragic story of team rock mat a us marine corps recon unit in vietnam that had a strange encounter in the jungle one night in may 1970. One of those teams mat iv 32 in kien phong province in the mekong delta was led by the author. Iii corps in the saigon area. I joined the team in rach gia but on october 23 we moved to vinh binh and mat 76 became arvn advisors.

There were 5 army soldiers on a mat team. When we got there we found the point team glaring at each other some kind of tussle.