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William Clarke wrote on March 24, 2021 at 10:01 pm
I am looking for anyone who served with the Special Forces recon teams operating out of Khe Sahn in 1967. I was a USAF FAC (Covey 017)detached to Khe Sahn that year and worked with Army teams on Prairie Fire missions. I remember one team I rescued which was in a hopeless situation, completely surrounded by an NVA force in a deep valley west of Khe Sahn in Laos. The weather had completely blanketed the entire top of the valley with a thick cloud cover that extended from the tops of the vally ridges to about 1500 feet from the valley floor. When I established radio contact with the team, they said they needed air support and possible extraction. I punched through the cloud cover to see if I could break out below the cloud deck before hitting the valley floor. I broke out at about 1,500 feet in rain and scud and managed to find the team. I had no air support as the weather was dangerously bad within the walls of the valley, so I used my marking rockets to hit enemy positions. I was getting intense automatic weapons fire. After supressing the fire, I managed to talk down helicopter support to swuccessfully rescue the team. Does anyone remember this event?
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