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06-16-2009, 01:25 PM
Tanksmasher
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So I finished a good book called Recondo about LRRPs in the 101st and Recondo School at Nha Trang. These recon guys, unlike regular infantry, were more precisely the tip of the spear. These six-man teams (sometimes 12) would live in the bush for 5 to 7 days, often within spitting distance of NVA battalions. They were expected to hide and observe the enemy until it was time for exfiltration and then conduct an ambush. So they would actually make contact with the enemy, engage in a brief firefight and then hightail it to the LZ.
The LRP company was often understrength too and had to recruit many volunteers--men who had just arrived in Vietnam after BCT and AIT with no formal LRRP training. So recon teams would go on a mission with FNGs or newbies.
The Recondo School training was pretty interesting. It was three weeks long. During the first day of the first week the men would run 2 miles with a 40 pound rucksack. By the seventh day--according to Larry Chambers--they had to run 9 miles in 90 minutes with 100 pounds of sand and equipment strapped on. They carried their weapons and everything they would normally carry with them into the bush just in case they got ambushed by VC on their runs. The School also accepted volunteers from the Marines and SEALs and foreign services (Thailand and S Korea).
On the third week, they had to go on a recon mission, and though this made the school renowned for being the toughest school around, it should be noted that most of the people in recon school were LRRPs or had gone on recon missions before and had seen combat, so it's not as if they were green recruits going out into the bush for the first time.
Now I'm reading about Tiger Force and the exploits of the most notorious unit in Vietnam. These guys apparently were pretty ruthless.
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