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The Air Force has always been behind the curve when it comes to the possibilities of ground combat.
When Tet, 1968 broke out, one of the NVA's prime targets was Ton Sohn Nhut Air Base near saigon. The Air Police had bunkers with M-16s and M-60 machine guns. The only problem was that each Airman armed with an M-16 had only between 40 and 100 rounds. The M-60s had between 300 and 500 rounds each. Air Policeman were risking their lives running around trying to find an officer with keys to the ammo lockers to resupply.
You couldn't have found anyone happier than the Air Police when the 3/4 Cav of the 25th Division showed up in their APCs and took over the line, unless it was the Cav guys who could actually see the enemy to shoot at them.
RLTW,
Mike
ps.
Another Lurp and I were in a hotel room at the Victoria with two ruck sacks of the "new" baseball grenades and a fifth of Jack Daniels each. The MPs came by the following morning asking if we saw where all the morter rounds came from that landed on the VC in the SeaBee yard behind the hotel.
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