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Military .. .(Continued from Page 1)mediate combat with the commanding general, the colonel and the intelligence officer in order to set up a field operations headquarters.We got shot at every now and then,'* Sgt. Brown said. He was directly involved with Operation Attleboro,’* which at the time, was the largest operation staged in Vietnam.The sergeant is especially proud of the brigade with which he served because the soldiers were about 80 per cent draftees, trained in seven months at Ft. Knox, Ky.They panned out terrifically, he said.While in Vietnam, Sgt. Brown’s brigade operated in War Zone C with the permanent base at Tay Nihn. The brigade also operated in WarZone D. The 196th was thefirst light infantry brigade to serve in Vietnam.Of the Vietnam war, Sgt. Brown said they're doing a terrific job over there. I think it’s a necessity.
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Canyon Sunday News
Canyon, Texas, US
Sun, Nov 10, 1968
Page 6
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