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[vzemke]

Long Range Survey Platoon, 8th Target Acquisition Battalion, 26th Artillery

 

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[Swollen tongue]

This was my unit in Vietnam in IFFV at An Khe. I was an artillery survey party chief.

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It seems that only it's Headquarter and Headquarters Battery was in country, why was only the HHB there, where were it's other batteries???

[Swollen tongue]

I can't answer that question for you. I was a young kid and I know we did work for the 1st CAV and MACV. We were a target aquisition battery. I am pretty sure we had some batteries on LZ hills near AnKhe but that's all I remember. Did do surveying for classified maps 20 miles south of Pleiku. I do have about ten of these patches.

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I can't answer that question for you. I was a young kid and I know we did work for the 1st CAV and MACV. We were a target aquisition battery. I am pretty sure we had some batteries on LZ hills near AnKhe but that's all I remember. Did do surveying for classified maps 20 miles south of Pleiku. I do have about ten of these patches.

Hey thanks, say would you want to post those patches here it the topic?

[Swollen tongue]

The patches I have are exactly the one you have posted here and came from vietnam during my time there.

[1SG_1st_Cav]

Target Acquisition Batteries (TAB) had several small TAB Detachments that were deployed to several different locations across an Area of Operations.

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1SG
Thanks for the input and info.....anything else you can tell about it would be appreciated.