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THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C
Thursday, July 2, 1970
Unusual Happenings: U.S. Army
Unit Finds Enemy Arms Cache
M/Sgl.Jteynolds
Cams Unit Awotd
By Sp4 WILUAM L. McGOWN
hlllK SUPPORT BASK
CAMBODIA — Jusi as it is un
usual for Iho tai'klo on a fooiiiall
Team to sc‘or(‘ a loujluiown. it’s
also unusual when an aitilliTy
unit s(*or4‘s by findin;: in aim^
raiho. Yet. that’s what an 4'h
mont of the 25th Infantry Divi
sion’s Headquai tens Battery. 1st
Battalion. 8th Field Artillery did
in Cambodia r<Mejiil>.
The opportunity pn'.sented iisfdf
wiu'n a Cambodian vill i.iaM* t ame
to First Lt. Tliomas I.. Rush.
.Iaeks(»MviIle, Fla., and said he’d
lead them to an (‘iiemy arms
v*aehe. Sinee tliis \va.*< unusual for
an artillery unit, Bush ua.< liesi
tanl at first aivi consulted ti e
Battalion Ctmimander. Lieut(*nant
Colonel Hiehar<l Manion.
“The viUa;?er i‘X])lained to me
that he \vant(‘d to do this beeau.se
of oiu* many services to his p(*()j»le
during MP'IX’APS iMt'diral Ci\ ie
Aetion Programsi, Manion. from
Leavenworth. Kan., .said. "Sin-i*
coming to Cambodia \ve’\e (on
flucted almost cme MKDCAP ea* h
day.”
"Besides.” adried Rush, “\ve
feared tliat if we didn’t follow ttp
on it ounsidw.s. the villager mi-ht
rciuse to guide people In- didj'’!
kn to tlu* c'icIk'.”
Together with an element from
C' -npany C. 2d Battalion i.Me; ;.-
ani/edt. 47th Infantry, eleven
men from 1 SMi hjllowed t!],:r
guide int( tin 'n*av\ onderhru-'i.
"I thought the guidi' sahl
cn.-he was 2nd mefers off the
road.” commented .Specialist Four
(lary \\. Watson, of (Jranlte Falls,
N. "but it .seemed like m<»re
than .">()(> meters. B> tlie time \Kt
got I > the cache site. I was al-
ino.sl too tired to di^”
"Kverybofiy toiik their time dig-
gin.,.” said ('ommand .sergc'ani
Major .August A. Mys/ka. ot C'o-
Uimbu.s. .Sa. "It took us about two
hours 1 I dig it all ui), ITut it \va.s
worth it.”
chance to rest. About 15 minutes
passed before a whistle and a
.shout—• This wayl”
thc> twistc-d through Itio u. S. AIR FORCfe ACADEMY,
Jungle they eauglil up with tho (-olo. — Master Sergeant Richard
guiile \vh.. was |)ointiiig down at n Revnolds, son of Mrs. Evelyn
the ground. Reynolds of 608 Gantt St., Kings
■ It looked just like everything Mountain, N. C., has been recog-
id.se tte had been stumbling over, nized for helping his unit earn
and not even a elearing, ' -*in- the U. S. Air Force Outstnmllng
meiued one artilleryman. Unit Award.
But a few probes with a .shovtd Sergeant Reynolds is a food
soon revealed that this was the.
The cache yielded Tii) enemy
bunkcM's, one messhall. 72 122mni
roi'ket.s, ten 7r)mm rc'coilless rifle
rounds wi;h one base* plate* for
the same* wea{M)n. BO.ddt) .51 eali-
ber machinegun rounds and a
large amount of communicalion.s
eouijnnenl. .Ml llie munitions
ucK* loaded into the tracks and
removed to Thiem Ngon.
The lollowing morning, the
•‘AuK^matic Kighth * .MKIX.'AP
team wc*iU out again, and in tlu*
(*arly afternoon. Lt. Bu.sh reiiort-
I'il that the same informant know
wh(*ri* some mortar lubc‘s wore
located, not far from The* first
<-a.‘h<‘ site.
By mid-aft(‘rnoon, the "Auto
Kighters" w(*re again on tho
2 ITth tracks cTashing tlirough
the dense underbrush. Again thoy
had to dismount and '.‘onlinue into
the thick growth on loot.
.\s they approached an appar
ently dcsertc'd V”' village, ten.^ion
mounted. When sc*voral men (ran-
liously stoi)pc'd to elu'cX out
trenches and holes, the guide
kcjit on goHig. .Soon, everyone was
aware he was missing. Fear of
being U*d into an ambush seiwd
f^omo. while others welcomed the
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site. There. undc»r sheets of tin,
vN’ore two 82mm mortars C'omplete
with ba^e plate and two sites, 3t)
S2mm mortar rounds, varloii.^
fuse's and propellant for the mor
tars, one M l carbine and 5n
pounds of TNT.
"Since* it was getting late in the*
afternoon we decided to carry
wluil we could and blow the rt'Si
in place,” s*iid Major Bobby L.
Uice, of Knoxville. Tenn,
"Kacli of us had to trudge ba.’l
to the trai-ks with mortar rounds
in our .side poi-kets, along with
tho other eejuipment.” .said Spe
cialist Five Paul S. Gaffn(‘y, from
Kings Mountain, N. C.
Laden with their heavy booty,
the men tried to take a shortcut
and meet the* track.s in a elear
ing reportc'dly due \vt‘.st of the
cache site. But liie high grass and
darkening sky c-mfuse'd them, and
they were s .on l.)sr. Fc>rtunately.
a 2.5th Infantry Division-Artillery
Light oh.sorv'Ulon helioopier (LC)-
H) pilot was able to icienlify their
signal smoke* and direct them to
tho clearing.
‘Those tracks sure were a wel
come sight,” said Wat.son.
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