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My name is Tom Skiens. I developed the 46 months of SITREP's you will find in buffgrunt.com. To read the total story see:
Daniel Pope calls in a sitrep for team 21 while on
operations south of Pleiku in 1969 |
SITREP is a military acronym that stands for, Situation
report. A sitrep can be defined as; a
short concise statement identifying a unit’s current location and tactical
situation.
The SITREP’s contained in this 43 page paper are derived from Approx.
2,300 pages of S/2-S/3 daily staff journals
for the 4/3 11th LIB
Americal Div 1969. 43 pages out
of 2,300 is less than 2%. I could not put all the pages on this website
so I focused on events that caused either death or injury and I
attempted to list names where ever possible.
SITREP’s
highlight the activities of Alpha,
Bravo, Charlie and Delta companies as well as, Recon, Aero scouts, HHC and
C&C. Read on and you will find crisis, conundrum and comedy.
If 1968 was the year of the
Booby trap, the Battalion hit more than 70, then 1969 is the year of the mortar
attack. One mortar attack produced 11 dead and 11 wounded. On another occasion
two mortar attacks in a 4 hour period produced 36 casualties for one company.
