RETURN OF THE
SILVER SPURS
Their eighty day mission
complete e, A Troop, 3d Squadron, 17th Air Cavalry, came home to Di
An. After serving in the “ad
Boogaloo” Delta since their movement to their temporary home of Soc Trang in
early January, the Spurs were constantly making life miserable for any enemy
troops crossing their path. Their
record for the eighty day adventure was 212 KBA’s, with 450 structures and 250
sampans destroyed, which adds up to a v very successful mission.
The success of A Troop’s
expedition in the Delta was attributed to the use of “Heavy” hunter-killer
teams, the use of two cobras instead of the usual single cobra.
The use of two cobras to cover one another on rocket runs proved to be a
necessary tactic in the notorious