Tom [Fleming]: Here's a belated thank you greeting from seven recon guys who were saved by
your Aero-Rifle platoon way back on 7 January 1967! We were pinned down in a village
off Route 22 just north of Trung Lap by between sixty and one hundred VC;
We were in search of a village chief who had been kidnapped, were in totally (to us) unknown
territory and ended up in a village with a concrete bunker in every house and a lot of tunnels.
We had two gun jeeps mounting sixties and were just about to skedaddle when we were hit,
ended up squeezed into an area about the dimensions of a two-car garage. Our people got close
after we got them on the radio, but couldn't get in close enough to get us out, so our troop CP got
hold of 25th ID Hq and you came and got us out. (I say "you"...obviously I don't know when you
were in country...but you represent Delta) We never got a chance to thank your people, so
thirty-five years later here's a big THANK YOU from the following members of the scout section,
Second platoon, Troop "F" 17th Cavalry (Recon), 196th Light Infantry
Brigade: Pete Rosie, Dave Morris, Tom Clement, Dave Allen, John Fritschka, Doug Clark
and Bob Haase. We all probably would have been badly shot up if not for your relief
force getting there when you did.
Dave "Gung" Morris
dmorris-at-ftrp17cav196.com

From Col Tom Fleming:

I happened to be on R& R when this took place. Maj. Harold Fisher was acting
CDR. of D/3/4 Cav on that day.