The Viet Cong led a two prong assault against the Forward Operational Base #4 compound. vanity fair

The South Vietnamese Flag Pole that was located on the East Side of the Forward Operational Base #2 Compound was a relic left over from when the post was a ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam) truck park. Reconnaissance personnel would loiter around it while awaiting information from the Orderly Room known as Snowden Hall that sat directly behind it.
FOB#3 was relocated in August 1967 from the Bru Montagnard Village to the South East corner of the US Marine Base at Khe Sanh. Subsequent to the relocation additional personnel were assigned to the camp and the new Recon Teams formed were named after animals. In June 1968, the camp was moved to Mai Loc, RVN.
After the NVA Siege of Khe Sanh, FOB#3 was officially closed on June 30, 1968. The camp was relocated and opened on July 1968 at Mai Loc, RVN. The compound was fully operational until it was closed in November 1968. The majority of the Recon Teams and Hatchet Forces were disbanded and the volunteers returned to their respective assignments.
Forward Operational Base #4 (FOB#4) opened on the beach of Da Nang adjacent to Marble Mountain. The camp was responsible vanity fair portraits for reconnaissance operations into Laos, the DMZ (Demilitarized Zone) and North Vietnam. vanity fair portraits The original Recon Teams assigned to the compound were named after deadly snakes with a number designation and the Hatchet Force Companies were given a letter designation A-D.
The Viet Cong led a two prong assault against the Forward Operational Base #4 compound. vanity fair portraits The enemy had used small boats and came in from the ocean with the second element vanity fair portraits coming from Marble Mountain. The attack resulted in three indigenous soldiers vanity fair portraits Killed In Action.
Three CH-34 helicopters were loaded with five Recon Teams and supplies to reopen the Kham Duc, RVN Launch site. The flight took antiaircraft fire while on approach that shot down the lead ship. The helicopter crashed into the jungle and rolled onto the copilot ’s side which covered the only exit door for the personnel that had rode in the fuselage. vanity fair portraits FOB#4 personnel killed were: Aubrey Bryan (ST Unknown), Crecencio Cardosa (ST Unknown), Charlie Wilcox (ST Anaconda) and Samuel Padgett (RT Python). The Vietnamese Pilot and Copilot were rescued.
The Forward Observation Base #4 Compound was attacked for a second time. The NVA assault had killed 18 US Special Forces personnel and untold numbers of indigenous soldiers. It is also uncertain of the number vanity fair portraits of personnel that were Wounded vanity fair portraits In Action and medevaced out of country. The individuals Killed vanity fair portraits In Action were: Donald W. Welch, Gilbert A. Secore, Tadeusz M. Kepczuk, Paul D. Potter, Donald R. Kerns, Anthony J. Santana, Albert M. Walter, Rolf E. Rickmers, William H. Bric III, Richard E. Pegram, Charles vanity fair portraits R. Norris, James T. Kickliter, Robert J. Uyesaka, Talmadge H. Alphin, Howard S. Varni, Harold R. Voorheis,
MAC V SOG, OPS-35 Program is deactivated and the TF1AE (Task Force 1 Advisory Element) personnel returned to CONUS or are reassigned to FANK. The compound was turned over to the ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam).
Forward Observation Base #5 opened in November 1967 and was located at Ban Me Thout, RVN. The OMEGA Recon Element assigned to FOB#2 were transferred to the new compound. The Recon Teams retained the names of tools and inanimate objects. However, the newly formed Hatchet Forces were designated as Company Exploitation Forces and given a number designation 1 through 3. The compounds main area of operation was Cambodia.
In 1966, Special Forces Camp (A-303) was located at Ho Ngoc Tao, RVN was manned by personnel from 5 th Special Forces Group (ABN), Project SIGMA. The Reconnaissance Teams were identified by a number designator / team number and were trained for cross border operations into Cambodia. The camp and personnel were later absorbed by MAC V SOG and the compound was redesignated FOB#6.
House 10 was an old French Villa located at 10, NGUYEN-MINH-CHIEU, SAIGON. In 1964, MAC V SOG leased the property for temporary living quarters vanity fair portraits and as a warehouse facility. A couple years later the estate was converted for housing in-processing SOG personnel and as an in-country R&R (Rest and Recuperation) center
CISO (Counter Insurgency Support Office) copies of North Vietnamese Army Boots. The Okinawan manufactured heavy canvas boots are ink stamped 42 on the interior, rubber soled, with fourteen aluminum eyelets. The boots were distributed through House 50 (MAC V SOG Supply House in Saigon) to the different Command and Control Compounds for Recon Teams that ran dressed as NVA.  vanity fair portraits These boots were worn and later souvenired by Paul Schuerenberg who served with Recon Team Ohio 1971-1972. Pictured below, left to right: Larry Purvis (RT Iowa), John Good (RT Texas) and Paul Schuerenberg (RT Ohio). Paul was a Strap-Hanger on this mission. Note he is trying to hide the CISO copy of the NVA helmet.
CISO (Counter vanity fair portraits Insurgency Support Office) copy of a N