On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 0802 -0600, "CWO4 Dave Mann"
wrote:

>
>"patricktee" wrote in message
>news:8flq305fie9dkbkl1ptdl813dt699oj2u2@4ax.com...
>> On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 1923 -0600, Matt Osborn
>> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >There is a fellow claiming to have joined the Army in 1975 and being
>> >wounded in the knee in Viet Nam. I suggested that he had his dates
>> >wrong, but he and two others insist that the US continued small unit
>> >operations in Vietnam after the Paris treaty.
>> >
>> >What do you think?
>>
>> Marines at the Mayaquez incident comes to mind, but no doggies on that
>> one or even Delta Force. Does he claim he was Delta? I think he's
>> bullshitting in any case.
>> "But now is the time for the younger men to lock in rough encounters,
>> time for me to yield to the pains of old age. But there was a day I shone
>among the champions."
>>
>> Homer, The Illiad, 23.715-719 (800 BC). King Nestor of Pylos.
>
>The Mayaquez incident involved USMC, USN, USAF and US Army personnel. The
>Army personnel were from the 7th Radio Research Field Station (7th RRFS) (US
>Army Security Agency Field Station Thailand - USM-7). Three enlisted men
>were killed, all Voice Intercept Operators (Cambodian/Vietnamese Language)
>when a USAF CH54 crashed (Callsign Knife 51). Their identities were kept
>classified "confidential" for several years after the incident because it
>was believed that revelation of their names and military affiliation would
>compromise the classification of the 7th RRFS ... notwithstanding the fact
>that the AN/FLR-9 Antenna System ("The Elephant Cage" was visible from space
>and is an antenna only used for SIGNINT. There are a number of interesting
>web sites up which describe the incident. Recently, the remains of a number
>of the men missing from one of the help crashes were repatriated by the
>Cambodians. I listened to the intercepted voice traffic during the incident
>from the Watch Officer's station inside "The Box" (the SIGINT operations
>facility) at the 7th RRFS. The Voice people had patched the US UHF, VHF and
>SSB traffic over the stations PA system so everyone could listen. IT was
>gruesome. The Knife 51 crash was not "counted" as a casualty of the
>incident for many years because it crashed in Thailand and thus the
>bureaucrats were able to truthfully say that it didn't crash as a result of
>"enemy action". Typical.
>
>
>HTH, YMMV
>
>Dave
>
I didn't mean to slight anyone that was involved. I do remember
reading an article on the net or something about it quite a while back
but I guess it didn't register.

thanks
"But now is the time for the younger men to lock in rough encounters,
time for me to yield to the pains of old age. But there was a day I shone among the champions."

Homer, The Illiad, 23.715-719 (800 BC). King Nestor of Pylos.