ALPHA 6 ‘JUST DISAPPEARED’
On Feb. 14, 1968, in the midst of the communists’ countrywide Tet Offensive, my company, Alpha, in the 1st Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment of the 1st Infantry Division, was tasked to be the security force for the headquarters of Military Assistance Command, Vietnam at Tan Son Nhut Air Base, just outside of Saigon. While Alpha Company was performing what was considered “in-country R&R,” easy duty guarding the MACV compound and the U.S. Embassy, our battalion continued to operate in the dangerous Thu Duc area across the Saigon River, about 3-4 miles northeast of the city and just above the junction of highways 1 and 13.
On Feb. 20, the battalion had a major
