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VIETNAM OPERATIONAL TIMELINE: 1970

Golden Dragons,
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1/JAN/1970: Camp Enarie
                   New Year's Day at Camp Enarie  from the photos of David "Doc" Brown
                   Camp Enarie (Pleiku)  from the photos of Randy Bauman

JAN/1970:  The 4th Infantry Division relocated from Pleiku to An Khe.

                    Convoy   from the photos of Randy Bauman
               
                Base Camp at An Khe  from the photos of (Sgt.) Don Price
                Camp Radcliff/An Khe Base Camp  from photos of Randy Bauman
 
 
                          LZ Tuffy   from photos of Randy Bauman


MAR/APRIL/1970: Hard Times (Bravo)  

                            LZ Hard Times  from photos of David "Doc" Brown  
                            LZ Hard Times  from the photos of Randy Bauman
                                   LZ Hard Times/Another View  from the photos of Wayne Muhr  C Btry 6/29th 

Late APRIL/1970:  Battalion Commander, LTC Andrew Simko, was killed in a helicopter crash, during a multi-battalion
                             encirclement operation North of AnKhe.  He was followed by temporary Battalion Commander,
                             LTC Robert Naylor.  
                             The 4 rifle company commanders at that time were: Cpt. Jimmy Wheeler... Alpha Co,
                             Cpt. Jerry Roberts... B Co, Cpt. Gordon Anderson...Charlie Co, and Cpt. Bob Pickett...Delta Co..  
 
                            14th INFANTRY PRESS COVERAGE: April-Oct: by Stephen Heck

MAY/1970:   Into Cambodia... Operation "Tame The West"

                   "One Man's Memory of Cambodia" by Lt. Colonel Robert L. Pickett (retired)
                   
4/MAY1970:  Convoy from Camp Radcliff to New Plei'D'Jereng
                 
                        LTC. Naylor, the Dragon, Maj. Scott, XO and Cpt. Pickett, OPS
                   LZ Dragon/Cambodia   from the photos of David "Doc" Brown
                   LZ Dragon/Another view  from the photos of Wayne Muhr   C Btry  6/29th
                       

MAY/1970:   COMMAND ROSTER  5/70-12/70


                     XO:  1st Lt. William (Wild Bill) Cody


                          BRAVO COMPANY:  Commander: Cpt. Jerry Roberts  

                          DELTA COMPANY:  Commander: Cpt. Robert Pickett  
  
                         1st Sergeant: Gene Lusk  
                         1st Platoon:  1st Lt. Robert E. Szigethy
                                               PSG... SSG McCormick
                         2nd Platoon:  ???
                                               PSG... SFC Breidinger
                         3d Platoon: No officer.  Led by PSG Bill Funderburk 
 
7/MAY/1970:  KIA  Sp4 Eugenio Barbosa-Oyola  C Co.
     
12/MAY/1970:  KIA Pfc. Horacio A. Fonseca-Vargas  C Co.
                               Pfc. Charles Koon  C Co.
                               Sp4. Philip Bennett  HQ Co.  .

   
 
5/JUNE/1970:  4 KIA from Bravo Co. when their helicopter was shot down:  1st Lt. Dennis Dotson, SP4 Robert
                       Goselin, Pfc. Robert Hill and SP4 Steven Stefanski.
                       
 
   
 
8/DEC/1970: 1st Battalion was reduced to zero strength at An Khe, Vietnam, with the exception of a battalion
                    color guard, which returned the regimental and 1st Battalion colors to Schofield Barracks.

15/DEC/1970:  The 1st Battalion was reassigned to the 25th Division and the 3rd Battalion, 14th Infantry, was
                       inactivated with it's personnel and equipment reassigned to the 1st Battalion.