2/11 5th Mech inf

39mto39g · #1 03-08-2007, 08:15 AM

Does anyone know if this unit went to VN , It would have been late 68 or early 69.
It was the unit I went to after VN.

Ron

Robert Ryan · #2 03-08-2007, 09:30 AM

Was a Fort Carson in Dec 1970 Ron, This unit was at Carson then, don't know about if it was in Nam or not.

DMZ-LT · #3 03-08-2007, 09:58 AM

Was opcon to the 5th Mech in April 71. Worked with 1/61 and 1/11 but don't remember 2/11

Advisor · #4 03-08-2007, 12:05 PM

Wasn't there only 1 brigade of the 5th in VN? I think it was the 1st. They operated out of Dong Ha, just up the hill from our compound by the bridge.

39mto39g · #5 03-08-2007, 12:20 PM

I was at Carson from July-Sept 3rd 68. and all that time they were doing VN training , Ambush and counter, etc. The guys I roomed with were always asking me about the realism of the training, they said they were going? I started to tell them stuff and one day a Sgt Major came up to me and said that I told ----- that some of the training was not like what they would encounter. I told him yes, and then he said , Knock it off. So because the guy I told this stuff to went and told that I was telling them stuff , I decided that they could just find out on there own. I didn't say anything after that.

Ron

covan · #6 03-08-2007, 02:53 PM

I think 2/11 was part of 2nd Brigade and only the 1st Brigade went to Vietnam. 2/11 did not deploy to RVN.