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In May 1968, 1st/Lt. Robin Bartlett, originally ordered to the 101st Airborne, was reassigned to the 1st Cavalry Division ...
During Vietnam, Funk was an Air Cavalry Troop commander in 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. Funk reiterated the Huey's iconic status.
Peter Bie, President of the chapter recalled, “I joined up with the 1 st Air Cavalry Vietnam in August of 1968. For the next six months I flew on a “lift” Huey as a door gunner on the right ...
X Ray seemed a likely spot to find the enemy, and so it was. No sooner had the 1st Battalion of the Air Cav’s 7th Regiment rushed from its choppers in the landing zone than the shooting began.
HOHENFELS, Germany – The storied lineage of the 1st Air Cavalry Brigade has taken them to the battlefields of Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan during its history, as the brigade trains constantly ...
KILLEEN — Vietnam veterans of Delta Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, came together at the Holiday Inn in Killeen for their annual reunion.
As the fleeing Communists were pinned down at every turn by helicopter-hopping Air Cav and South Vietnamese troops, the count mounted to 446 dead, 389 captured. “We Will Fight.” ...
Joseph Galloway, a longtime journalist who embedded with the 1st Cavalry Division during the Vietnam War and helped write the book “We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young,” has died at the age of 79.