Follow Me

[chilidog]

I was talking with a lady from down-the-street the other day. I asked her what unit her husband was in when he was in-country. She didn't remember the unit number, but she said they were "Follow Me." Has anybody heard of them?



chilidog

[39mto39g]

Its two things,
Pathfinders,

and the infantry slogan/motto, Follow me, for I am the infantry-- and so on.

He was most likely Pathfinder.


Ron

[39mto39g]

Try this web address, http://www.infantry.army.mil/infantry/index.asp

[onesix]

"Follow Me" is the motto for the United States Army Infantry. The only organization to use it is the USAIS (United States Army Infantry School). The motto appears on the septilateral USAIS patch above a sword on a field of blue. There were no infantry organizations/units in Vietnam that had such a motto.

[39mto39g]

welcome,,
What was your address in VN?

By your information, looks like they got you the first time re-enlisment came around.

Ron

[chilidog]

Hmmm......sounds like I need to talk with her husband instead of her.

Ron, thanks for the website...how about that crazy clock that follows your mouse around.


chilidog

[onesix]

2/28 Infantry, 1968 (post-tet).

[39mto39g]

That clock means its loading something, Most likely the picture I put up about Follow Me Patch. let it load.
Ron

[39mto39g]

2nd bn 28th inf,,? Brg ?inf Div
Where were you, I-corps--2 corps?
Just cureous,


Ron

[onesix]

Wannabee questions, huh? 2/28 CO was LTC Vernon Coffey, later to become a Presidential Aide. We were part of the 3rd, or "Iron Brigade", 1st Infantry Division. 2/28 and 3rd Brigade were both at Lai Khe when I was there in 1968. Our AO was basically War Zone C, from Lai Khe up to the Cambodian border near Loc Ninh. I made it into the Iron Triangle a couple of times as well, whose northwestern tip bordered on Lai Khe. Also did a spent a lot of time on/around Thunder Road (Hwy 13) I was a rifle platoon leader with Charlie 2/28, hence my moniker here (onesix) which was my call sign as 1st platoon leader.

I am a lifetime member of the DAV as well as a member of the Society of the First Infantry Division and the 28th Infantry Regimental Association.

2/28 was virtually wiped out before I got there during the battle of Ong Thanh (Highly recommended reading), where the bn(-) took 59 KIA and 120 WIA, almost every man in the field. You can read about the battle in a recently publised book THE BEAST WAS OUT THERE by BG (then Major) James Shelton. Clark Welch, the D Company Commander during the fight just had his Silver Star up-graded to a DSC, and Shelton is now trying for another upgrade to the MOH. Welch and Pulitzer Prize winner David Mariness have combined to write another book about the battle which will be published early this fall.