We Thank You For the Ultimate Sacrifice During the Vietnam Conflict.
Army Security Agents
NAME UNIT DATE MOS CIRCUMSTANCES
SP4 James T. Davis 3d RR Unit 22 Dec 1961 056 Small arms fire during ambush of ARVN DF team
PFC Donald R. Taylor 3d RR Unit 9 Feb
1964 72B Landmine detonated under bleachers at softball game at Ton Son Nhut
SP4 Arthur Glover 3d RR Unit 9 Feb
1964 05G Landmine detonated under bleachers at softball game at Ton Son Nhut
SFC Robert F. Townsend 10th RR Unit 4 Nov 1965 11B Small arms fire during search and destroy mission
2LT William E. Leatherwood Jr 8th RR Unit 17 Feb 1966 ?? Non-hostile death, killed in crash of helicopter at Phu Bai airfield while on courier run
SSG John D. Hoffman 101st RR Det 02 Apr 1966 05C Non-hostile death, accidental weapons discharge.
SSG Donald D. Daugherty 3d RR Unit 13 Apr 1966 05H Mortar fire
PFC Dennis Keith Bahr 303d RR Bn 19 Aug 1966 95B Non-hostile, vehicle crash
CPT James D. Stallings 337th RR Co 25 Sep 1966 9640 Ambush
1LT John F. Cochrane 409th RR Det 24 Oct 1966 9630 Ambush
SSG Joseph A. Rayno TAREX? 29 Dec 1966 04B Non-hostile causes. Formerly a 98C at 12th USASAFS.
SFC Joe Parks ? 01 Jan 1967 04B ? (BNR)
SFC John F. Stirling 335th RR Co 8 Mar 1967 11B Mortar fire
SP4 Thomas M. Huntley ?? 23 Jul 1967 05H Non-hostile
SP4 Richard G. Ferruggia ?? 08 Oct 1967 98B Non-hostile death, killed in an aircrash shortly after departing Phu Bai.
SP4 Joseph P. Rowley ?? 08 Oct 1967 72B See above.
SP4 Terrance H. Larson ?? 08 Oct 1967 72B See above
SP4 Robert D. Nelson ?? 08 Oct 1967 72B See above
SP4 Joseph P. Rowly ?? 08 Oct 1967 72B See above
SP4 John D. Saville Jr ?? 08 Oct 1967 05H See above
SP5 William L. Stewart Jr ?? 08 Oct 1967 98C See above
SP4 Ronald A. Villardo ?? 08 Oct 1967 05H See above
SFC Robert D. Taylor 335th RR Co 26 Nov 1967 05K Recoiless rifle fire on truck
SGT Diego Ramirez Jr. 335th RR Co 26 Nov 1967 05C See above
SP5 Michael P. Brown 335th RR Co 26 Nov 1967 98G See above
SSG Jose Miranda-Ortiz 330th RR Co 30 Nov 1967 04C Non-hostile
CPT J. O. Douglas Kelly 138th RR Co (Avn) 4 Dec 1967 1980 Non-hostile death
WO1 Milton W. Smith 138th RR Co (Avn) 29 Dec 1967 ? Non-hostile
WO1 Jon P. Shaffer (8th Radio Research Field 29 Dec 1967 061C Non-hostile death
SSG Robert J. Wiggin 335th RR Co 13 Feb 1968 94B Non-hostile death
CPT John M. Casey 371st RR Co 25 Mar 1968 9640 Mortar fire
SP4 Kendall A. Stake 8th Radio Research Field 05 Apr 1968 04B Unknown
SP4 Christopher Schramm 371st RR Co 13 May 1968 05D Landmine after dismounting from mined truck
SP4 Jeffrey W. Haerle 372d RR Co 13 May 1968 ? VC attack on Nui Ba Den. TDY to unit from Torii Station
SP5 Samuel C. Martin 101st RR Co 17 May 1968 05G Landmine while on patrol in III Corps
SGT Thomas J. Tomczak 403d RR Det (Spec Ops) 23 Jul 1968 05H Mortar malfunction
SSG Richard Jernigan 328th RR Co 10 Sept 1968 63C Motor Sgt. Complications assoc w/malaria.
SP5 Harold Biller 175th RR Co 25 Feb 1969 05D Command detonated mine
SP5 Harry J. Colon 409th RR Det 21 Jun 1969 76Y Sniper fire on vehicle en route 303d RR Bn
SSG Jim C. Page ?? 07 Jul 1969 98C Non-hostile death
SP5 John K. Anderson 335th RR Co 08 Oct 1969 98G Non-hostile death
SP4 James R. Smith 371st RR Co 29 Nov 1969 05H Left Bank shootdown
SP4 Henry N. Heide II 371st RR Co 29 Nov 1969 05H Left Bank shootdown
SFC Frederick W. P. Pruden 101st RR Co 02 Nov 1970 05G Illness as result of prior injuries.
SP5 Edward Van Every 335th RR Co 01 Jun 1970 98C Non-hostile
SGT Robert E. Dew 330th RR Co 05H Rocket attack
SP5 Edward Van Everey Jr 335th RR Co 06 Jan 1970 98C Non-hostile death
SP6 Edward Robinson 303d RR Bn 09 Mar 1970 33G non-hostile while TDY to Det 2, 175th RR Co, Con Son Island.
SP4 Zane L. Rupert (7th RRFS)** 01 Feb 1971 05H ?
SP4 William R. Higginbotham 371st RR Co 17 Feb 1971 71B Jeep accident, Binh Duong Province
SP5 Carl H. Caccia 404th RR Det 21 Feb 1971 76Y Ambush in Binh Dinh Province, Phu My District.
SP5 Robert J. Thelen, 404th RR Det 21 Feb 1971 57L See above
SGT Robert J. Potts 404th RR Det 21 Feb 1971 72B See above
SP5 Mitchell B. Smith 404th RR Det 21 Feb 1971 05H See above
SP5 Gary C. David 371st RR Co 1 Mar 1971 05H Left Bank shootdown
SP4 Frank A. Sablan 371st RR Co 1 Mar 1971 05H Left Bank shootdown
CPT Michael W. Marker 138th RR Co (Avn) 4 Mar 1971 1981 LEFT JAB shootdown, MIA presumed dead, BNR
WO1 Harold L. Algaard 138th RR Co (Avn) 4 Mar 1971 101C See above
SP6 John T. Strawn 138th RR Co (Avn) 4 Mar 1971 98C See above
SP5 Richard J. Hentz 138th RR Co (Avn) 4 Mar 1971 98G See above
SP5 Rodney D. Osborne 138th RR Co (Avn) 4 Mar 1971 05D See above
SP5 Ronald R. Northrop 509th RR Gp 11 Mar 1971 04B2L Assigned TRU/MACV, non-hostile, illness, in Saigon
SP4 Howard D. Cason (7th RRFS) ** 12 Mar 1971 05H ?
SP4 Jerry M. Notley (7th RRFS)** 14 Oct 1971 05H ?
SP5 Gary P. Westcott 8th Radio Research Field * 30 Mar 1972 98G KIA on FSB Sarge, initially declared MIA
SP5 Bruce A. Crosby Jr 8th Radio Research Field * 30 Mar 1972 33C See above
SP5 Lee W. Wooten ? 21 Sep 1972 04B ?
SSG Thomas P. Keogh 146th RR Co (Avn) 07 Jul 1972 67G40 Non-hostile cause, truck accident
Thank You, Jim Raab
http://www.jimraab.blogspot.com/
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Army Security Agency Our Mission
Army Security Agency
The U.S. Army has supported its fighting forces with signals intelligence since World War I. The first permanent organization to do this was established in 1930 as the Signal Intelligence Service (SIS).
In 1943 during World War II, the SIS was renamed the Signal Security Service (SSS) and quickly changed to the Signal Security Agency (SSA) and exploited the communications of both Germany and Japan, shortening the war and saving many thousands of American lives.
The SSA was reorganized as the Army Security Agency (ASA) at Arlington Hall Station, Virginia, on 15 September 1945. Operating under the command of the Director of Military Intelligence, the new agency had a sweeping charter. It exercised control functions through a vertical command structure. ASA established a worldwide chain of fixed sites field stations while maintaining large theater headquarters in the Far East and in Europe.
In 1949, all three military cryptology services were centralized under the new Armed Forces Security Agency (AFSA), the precursor of today's National Security Agency (NSA). ASA transferred most members of its large civilian headquarters staff to AFSA in this process. However, because of the need once again to support troops in actual combat in the Korean War, ASA again expanded, deploying tactical units on a large scale to support the Army in combat.
For the first time, ASA grew to include groups and battalions in its force structure. In 1955, ASA took over electronic intelligence (ELINT) and electronic warfare functions previously carried out by the Signal Corps. Since its mission was no longer exclusively identified with intelligence and security, ASA was withdrawn from G-2 control and resubordinated to the Army Chief of Staff as a field operating agency.
In the 1960s, ASA was again called upon to assist U.S. forces in the field. On 13 May 1961, the first contingent of Army Security Agency personnel arrived in South Vietnam (setting up an organization at Tan Son Nhut Air Base) to provide support to the U.S. Military Assistance Advisory Group and help train the South Vietnamese Army.
During the early years of conflict, ASA troops in Vietnam were assigned to the 3rd Radio Research Unit. Their primary mission was to locate Viet Cong transmitters operating in the south. This mission was in its early stages when one of their direction finding (DF) operators, SP4 James T. Davis, was killed in a Viet Cong ambush on a road outside Saigon. The date of the ambush, 22 December 1961, made Army Security Agent Davis the first American soldier to lose his life in combat during the Vietnam War.
The death of Davis brought home to ASA the dangers to proceeding into the jungle with short-range DF equipment to locate VC transmitters that might be only a few miles away. Since radio wave propagation in Southeast Asia required that DF equipment be very close to the transmitter, the obvious answer was to go airborne. ASA engineers began working on the problem, and by March 1962 they had their first airborne DF platform, a single-engine aircraft that flew low, slow, and had room for only two people. It had no onboard navigation system, no all-weather capability and was dependent upon visual landmarks to conduct operations The soldiers in the unit were calling it TWA (Teeny Weeny Airlines).
With the introduction of large U.S. ground combat elements into South Vietnam in 1965, the ASA organization in-country expanded. The 3rd RRU was replaced by the 509th Radio Research Group, which commanded three battalions and company-size direct support units assigned to all Army divisions. One of the 509th's subordinate battalions was the 224th Aviation Battalion (Radio Research), which pioneered in the introduction of Special Electronic Mission Aircraft (SEMA) to the battlefield
With the mission gear on board the RU-8D aircraft was known by the nicknames WINEBOTTLE, CEFISH PERSON, and CHECKMATE. These aircraft, with the on-board systems and crews, truly became the new workhorse of the Army's SEMA fleet primarily due to a combination of the improved mission gear and a newly introduced multi-engine capability, each contributing to expanding and improving the unit's mission coverage in several dimensions.
In 1968, a project known as LAFFIN EAGLE entered service with the Army and within Vietnam. It used the Army RU-21 aircraft with additionally improved mission gear to include an automated direction finding capability as a result of the use of an on-board inertial navigation system.
With the follow-on introduction of three JU-21 LEFT JAB into Vietnam, the Army now had the first airborne collection system to give 360-degree direction finding coverage. It was also the first system to use a digital computer to store calibration tables for the DF system and to calculate emitter locations from the LOBs generated by the "Spaced Loop" DF antenna and aircraft position data furnished by the on-board INS. In essence, what the RU-6A, the RU-1A, and, most importantly, the RU-8D had provided and accomplished as the Army's initial trio of signals intelligence platforms was now resident in the proliferating fleet of RU-21s in both Vietnam and CONUS.
Finally, a truly special unit was formed and deployed to Vietnam using Army pilots, Army ASA mission operators on board a Navy P-2V Neptune four-engine aircraft. This Army project was a significant leap in both mission coverage and overall mission capability. As with most of the other platforms, these aircraft were redesignated specifically as RP-2E aircraft with an associated mission project name of CEFLIEN LION or CRAZY CAT.
The remaining platforms which also contributed to the Army's airborne signal intelligence capability were six specially configured UH-1 helicopters. These aircraft were redesignated as EH-1 LEFT BANK aircraft and were assigned directly to the tactical war-fighting divisions in Vietnam. These LEFT BANK assets were manned and maintained by ASA operators, also found with the same divisions. Their flight profiles included both high and extremely low-altitude operating envelopes necessary to locate and target tactically oriented enemy threats of immediate and times-sensitive value.
Often, the ultimate customers for the information did not understand the capabilities of the systems. They expected to be able to fire bomb a given location and find the enemy at that location speaking on the radio. There were some constraints with the systems, in that the location of the target could be depicted as an elliptical core not a pinpoint target. Therefore, the transmitter was not always exactly where the report indicated resulting in friendly fire.
Radio Research Units (RRU) operated in Vietnam under the direction of the U.S. Army Security Agency (ASA) Group. During this time, these operations were classified. On 1 June 1966, the 224th Aviation Battalion (Radio Research) was activated under the command of the 509th RRG. It consisted of four companies:
• the 138th Aviation Company (RR) at Da Nang in support of I Corps tactical zone of operation
• the 144th Aviation Company (RR) at Nha Trang in support of II Corps tactical zone of operation
• the 146th Aviation Company (RR) at Saigon in support of III Corps tactical zone of operation
• the 156th Aviation Company (RR) at Can Tho in support of IV Corps tactical zone of operation
On 3 July 1967, the 1st Radio Research Company (Aviation) was assigned to the 224th Aviation Battalion (RR) to provide direct support to U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV), flying six RP-2E aircraft from Cam Ranh Air Base, Vietnam, on 13-hour missions. By June 1969, the 224th Aviation Battalion (RR) with its headquarters company and five operational aviation companies had over 1,100 personnel and eighty aircraft. The battalion and the LEFT BANK elements within the two radio research companies supporting the 1st Cavalry Division and 4th Infantry Division comprised the initial fleet of the Army airborne signals capability in Vietnam.
The U-I Seminole was first introduced into the Army's inventory during the Korean War. The twin-engine aircraft was used for transportation of commanders and staff officers. ASA first used the plane as an airborne direction finding platform in Vietnam. The system became operational in January 1963. The RU-8 offered advantages over the RU-6 Beaver. For the first time, the 3rd Radio Research Unit had an all-weather capability. With its ability to carry three crew members (pilot, copilot, and intercept operator), the plane had enough room for navigational equipment. Unlike the RU-6, a crew would no longer be dependent upon visual landmarks to conduct operations.
Several ASA Army crews made the ultimate sacrifice while flying signals intelligence aerial reconnaissance missions under enemy fire. All of these were lost in the war in Southeast Asia and were the only ASA crews killed by hostile fire during the Cold War. Thirteen U.S. Army personnel were lost to hostile fire while performing the sensitive airborne intelligence collection missions. Of the thirteen, seven were U.S. Army Security Agency intercept operators and six were flight crew personnel.
Six of these thirteen are still listed as Killed in Action/Body Not Recovered. One is listed as Died While Missing/Body Recovered. The others are listed as Killed in Action. Another ASA aircraft lost in Vietnam was a LEFT BANK EH-1H assigned to the 1st Cav Division. The loss took place on 29 November 1969 near Landing Zone Buttons in Phuoc Long Province, III Corps. The mission of this crew was airborne intercept and location of enemy transmitters directly threatening the 1st Cav's area of operations. The aircraft was shot down by ground fire and destroyed by tactical airstrikes to prevent compromise of on-board mission equipment. A second LEFT BANK aircraft from the 1st Cav Division was lost on 1 March 1971 near Dambe, Cambodia (approximately twenty five miles inside Cambodia). The last ASA aircraft lost to hostile fire was a U.S. Army JU-21A LEFT JAB assigned to the 138th Radio Research Company based at Phu Bai, near the DMZ. On 4 March 1971 it took off on an intelligence-gathering mission. The aircraft headed northwest towards the DMZ between North and South Vietnam. Reportedly, the aircraft's mission was to collect intelligence regarding surface-to-air missile sites, somewhere north of the DMZ the JU-21A, tail #67-18062, was shot down.
Thank You, Jim Raab
http://www.jimraab.blogspot.com/
The U.S. Army has supported its fighting forces with signals intelligence since World War I. The first permanent organization to do this was established in 1930 as the Signal Intelligence Service (SIS).
In 1943 during World War II, the SIS was renamed the Signal Security Service (SSS) and quickly changed to the Signal Security Agency (SSA) and exploited the communications of both Germany and Japan, shortening the war and saving many thousands of American lives.
The SSA was reorganized as the Army Security Agency (ASA) at Arlington Hall Station, Virginia, on 15 September 1945. Operating under the command of the Director of Military Intelligence, the new agency had a sweeping charter. It exercised control functions through a vertical command structure. ASA established a worldwide chain of fixed sites field stations while maintaining large theater headquarters in the Far East and in Europe.
In 1949, all three military cryptology services were centralized under the new Armed Forces Security Agency (AFSA), the precursor of today's National Security Agency (NSA). ASA transferred most members of its large civilian headquarters staff to AFSA in this process. However, because of the need once again to support troops in actual combat in the Korean War, ASA again expanded, deploying tactical units on a large scale to support the Army in combat.
For the first time, ASA grew to include groups and battalions in its force structure. In 1955, ASA took over electronic intelligence (ELINT) and electronic warfare functions previously carried out by the Signal Corps. Since its mission was no longer exclusively identified with intelligence and security, ASA was withdrawn from G-2 control and resubordinated to the Army Chief of Staff as a field operating agency.
In the 1960s, ASA was again called upon to assist U.S. forces in the field. On 13 May 1961, the first contingent of Army Security Agency personnel arrived in South Vietnam (setting up an organization at Tan Son Nhut Air Base) to provide support to the U.S. Military Assistance Advisory Group and help train the South Vietnamese Army.
During the early years of conflict, ASA troops in Vietnam were assigned to the 3rd Radio Research Unit. Their primary mission was to locate Viet Cong transmitters operating in the south. This mission was in its early stages when one of their direction finding (DF) operators, SP4 James T. Davis, was killed in a Viet Cong ambush on a road outside Saigon. The date of the ambush, 22 December 1961, made Army Security Agent Davis the first American soldier to lose his life in combat during the Vietnam War.
The death of Davis brought home to ASA the dangers to proceeding into the jungle with short-range DF equipment to locate VC transmitters that might be only a few miles away. Since radio wave propagation in Southeast Asia required that DF equipment be very close to the transmitter, the obvious answer was to go airborne. ASA engineers began working on the problem, and by March 1962 they had their first airborne DF platform, a single-engine aircraft that flew low, slow, and had room for only two people. It had no onboard navigation system, no all-weather capability and was dependent upon visual landmarks to conduct operations The soldiers in the unit were calling it TWA (Teeny Weeny Airlines).
With the introduction of large U.S. ground combat elements into South Vietnam in 1965, the ASA organization in-country expanded. The 3rd RRU was replaced by the 509th Radio Research Group, which commanded three battalions and company-size direct support units assigned to all Army divisions. One of the 509th's subordinate battalions was the 224th Aviation Battalion (Radio Research), which pioneered in the introduction of Special Electronic Mission Aircraft (SEMA) to the battlefield
With the mission gear on board the RU-8D aircraft was known by the nicknames WINEBOTTLE, CEFISH PERSON, and CHECKMATE. These aircraft, with the on-board systems and crews, truly became the new workhorse of the Army's SEMA fleet primarily due to a combination of the improved mission gear and a newly introduced multi-engine capability, each contributing to expanding and improving the unit's mission coverage in several dimensions.
In 1968, a project known as LAFFIN EAGLE entered service with the Army and within Vietnam. It used the Army RU-21 aircraft with additionally improved mission gear to include an automated direction finding capability as a result of the use of an on-board inertial navigation system.
With the follow-on introduction of three JU-21 LEFT JAB into Vietnam, the Army now had the first airborne collection system to give 360-degree direction finding coverage. It was also the first system to use a digital computer to store calibration tables for the DF system and to calculate emitter locations from the LOBs generated by the "Spaced Loop" DF antenna and aircraft position data furnished by the on-board INS. In essence, what the RU-6A, the RU-1A, and, most importantly, the RU-8D had provided and accomplished as the Army's initial trio of signals intelligence platforms was now resident in the proliferating fleet of RU-21s in both Vietnam and CONUS.
Finally, a truly special unit was formed and deployed to Vietnam using Army pilots, Army ASA mission operators on board a Navy P-2V Neptune four-engine aircraft. This Army project was a significant leap in both mission coverage and overall mission capability. As with most of the other platforms, these aircraft were redesignated specifically as RP-2E aircraft with an associated mission project name of CEFLIEN LION or CRAZY CAT.
The remaining platforms which also contributed to the Army's airborne signal intelligence capability were six specially configured UH-1 helicopters. These aircraft were redesignated as EH-1 LEFT BANK aircraft and were assigned directly to the tactical war-fighting divisions in Vietnam. These LEFT BANK assets were manned and maintained by ASA operators, also found with the same divisions. Their flight profiles included both high and extremely low-altitude operating envelopes necessary to locate and target tactically oriented enemy threats of immediate and times-sensitive value.
Often, the ultimate customers for the information did not understand the capabilities of the systems. They expected to be able to fire bomb a given location and find the enemy at that location speaking on the radio. There were some constraints with the systems, in that the location of the target could be depicted as an elliptical core not a pinpoint target. Therefore, the transmitter was not always exactly where the report indicated resulting in friendly fire.
Radio Research Units (RRU) operated in Vietnam under the direction of the U.S. Army Security Agency (ASA) Group. During this time, these operations were classified. On 1 June 1966, the 224th Aviation Battalion (Radio Research) was activated under the command of the 509th RRG. It consisted of four companies:
• the 138th Aviation Company (RR) at Da Nang in support of I Corps tactical zone of operation
• the 144th Aviation Company (RR) at Nha Trang in support of II Corps tactical zone of operation
• the 146th Aviation Company (RR) at Saigon in support of III Corps tactical zone of operation
• the 156th Aviation Company (RR) at Can Tho in support of IV Corps tactical zone of operation
On 3 July 1967, the 1st Radio Research Company (Aviation) was assigned to the 224th Aviation Battalion (RR) to provide direct support to U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV), flying six RP-2E aircraft from Cam Ranh Air Base, Vietnam, on 13-hour missions. By June 1969, the 224th Aviation Battalion (RR) with its headquarters company and five operational aviation companies had over 1,100 personnel and eighty aircraft. The battalion and the LEFT BANK elements within the two radio research companies supporting the 1st Cavalry Division and 4th Infantry Division comprised the initial fleet of the Army airborne signals capability in Vietnam.
The U-I Seminole was first introduced into the Army's inventory during the Korean War. The twin-engine aircraft was used for transportation of commanders and staff officers. ASA first used the plane as an airborne direction finding platform in Vietnam. The system became operational in January 1963. The RU-8 offered advantages over the RU-6 Beaver. For the first time, the 3rd Radio Research Unit had an all-weather capability. With its ability to carry three crew members (pilot, copilot, and intercept operator), the plane had enough room for navigational equipment. Unlike the RU-6, a crew would no longer be dependent upon visual landmarks to conduct operations.
Several ASA Army crews made the ultimate sacrifice while flying signals intelligence aerial reconnaissance missions under enemy fire. All of these were lost in the war in Southeast Asia and were the only ASA crews killed by hostile fire during the Cold War. Thirteen U.S. Army personnel were lost to hostile fire while performing the sensitive airborne intelligence collection missions. Of the thirteen, seven were U.S. Army Security Agency intercept operators and six were flight crew personnel.
Six of these thirteen are still listed as Killed in Action/Body Not Recovered. One is listed as Died While Missing/Body Recovered. The others are listed as Killed in Action. Another ASA aircraft lost in Vietnam was a LEFT BANK EH-1H assigned to the 1st Cav Division. The loss took place on 29 November 1969 near Landing Zone Buttons in Phuoc Long Province, III Corps. The mission of this crew was airborne intercept and location of enemy transmitters directly threatening the 1st Cav's area of operations. The aircraft was shot down by ground fire and destroyed by tactical airstrikes to prevent compromise of on-board mission equipment. A second LEFT BANK aircraft from the 1st Cav Division was lost on 1 March 1971 near Dambe, Cambodia (approximately twenty five miles inside Cambodia). The last ASA aircraft lost to hostile fire was a U.S. Army JU-21A LEFT JAB assigned to the 138th Radio Research Company based at Phu Bai, near the DMZ. On 4 March 1971 it took off on an intelligence-gathering mission. The aircraft headed northwest towards the DMZ between North and South Vietnam. Reportedly, the aircraft's mission was to collect intelligence regarding surface-to-air missile sites, somewhere north of the DMZ the JU-21A, tail #67-18062, was shot down.
Thank You, Jim Raab
http://www.jimraab.blogspot.com/
Army Security Agency Vietnam 69 70
Army Security Agency My ASA Mission
Among the least known army units serving in Vietnam were the super-secret forces of the Army Security Agency (ASA) Group, Vietnam.
These included the 8th ASA Field Station in Phu Bai (later Da Nang), the 224th ASA Battalion Aviation) at Tan Son Nhut (later Long Than North), "the 303rd ASA Battalion at Long Binh, the 313th ASA Battalion at Nha Trang, the 138th Aviation Company (RR) and the 20 ASA aviation, divisional support, operations and security companies scattered throughout the country.
They were unknown because officially they did not exist and were hidden undercover designations to mask their true identities, with Radio Research Unit (RRU) being the most common designator. Among the several missions of these ASA units was the collection of enemy intelligence through radio direction finding (ARDF). By any measure, ARDF became the single most valuable intelligence resource available to American and Allied forces during the war in Vietnam.
The ARDF mission involved finding two bits of information: where was the enemy radio transmitter and whose transmitter was it. These transmitters belonged to combat, administrative and logistical units of the Viet Cong, and in later years to elements of the Army of North Vietnam. The operators used call-signs and techniques that were associated by the intelligence analysts with particular enemy units or headquarters.
Typically the messages were sent by telegraph key and encrypted. But this fact presented no problem for ARDF since message content was not the only issue. Location and obliteration provided a successful mission. The problem was the length of time a station remained on the air. The Viet Cong were aware of the consequences and the transmissions were extremely short and not long enough to get an accurate fix!' Someone had to decide the accuracy, if the area was clear of friendly fire, and the extent of destruction.
How do you avoid friendly fire with a war going in the jungle of Vietnam. You have a dozen ground troop military forces like the Army, Marines, Koreans, Austrians, and South Vietnamese Army to name a few. Is anybody out there?
As in previous wars our top-secret intelligence information was more important than our lives. There is a chain reaction of events resulting in the catastrophic lost of thousands of lives or the War itself by the North Vietnamese having access to our information and our ability to intercept. If we could have intercepted information about the TET offense in 1968 we would have won that war. 58 thousand deaths, countless wounded, a decade of agony and a few words in the wrong hands can change it all.
Informants are scarce and there information can not always be used to save lives. Sacrifices have to be made and no action to save the lives of a platoon will be taken if it jeopardizes the informants’ identity, mission and countless other lives. Does the end justify the means? Is all fair in love and war? Can you live with that?
On a larger scale there is no guarantee that our perimeter will no be breached and the out post taken over. Although the files transmitters and other equipment were rigged with explosives in case of such an event we ate, slept, and lived on the sacrificial alter of War. A Navy battle ship with one and only one mission was armed, aimed, and assigned to instantaneously obliterate our outpost to prevent compromise. I and all my friends were an expendable source of knowledge.
Jim Raab
http://www.jimraab.blogspot.com/
Among the least known army units serving in Vietnam were the super-secret forces of the Army Security Agency (ASA) Group, Vietnam.
These included the 8th ASA Field Station in Phu Bai (later Da Nang), the 224th ASA Battalion Aviation) at Tan Son Nhut (later Long Than North), "the 303rd ASA Battalion at Long Binh, the 313th ASA Battalion at Nha Trang, the 138th Aviation Company (RR) and the 20 ASA aviation, divisional support, operations and security companies scattered throughout the country.
They were unknown because officially they did not exist and were hidden undercover designations to mask their true identities, with Radio Research Unit (RRU) being the most common designator. Among the several missions of these ASA units was the collection of enemy intelligence through radio direction finding (ARDF). By any measure, ARDF became the single most valuable intelligence resource available to American and Allied forces during the war in Vietnam.
The ARDF mission involved finding two bits of information: where was the enemy radio transmitter and whose transmitter was it. These transmitters belonged to combat, administrative and logistical units of the Viet Cong, and in later years to elements of the Army of North Vietnam. The operators used call-signs and techniques that were associated by the intelligence analysts with particular enemy units or headquarters.
Typically the messages were sent by telegraph key and encrypted. But this fact presented no problem for ARDF since message content was not the only issue. Location and obliteration provided a successful mission. The problem was the length of time a station remained on the air. The Viet Cong were aware of the consequences and the transmissions were extremely short and not long enough to get an accurate fix!' Someone had to decide the accuracy, if the area was clear of friendly fire, and the extent of destruction.
How do you avoid friendly fire with a war going in the jungle of Vietnam. You have a dozen ground troop military forces like the Army, Marines, Koreans, Austrians, and South Vietnamese Army to name a few. Is anybody out there?
As in previous wars our top-secret intelligence information was more important than our lives. There is a chain reaction of events resulting in the catastrophic lost of thousands of lives or the War itself by the North Vietnamese having access to our information and our ability to intercept. If we could have intercepted information about the TET offense in 1968 we would have won that war. 58 thousand deaths, countless wounded, a decade of agony and a few words in the wrong hands can change it all.
Informants are scarce and there information can not always be used to save lives. Sacrifices have to be made and no action to save the lives of a platoon will be taken if it jeopardizes the informants’ identity, mission and countless other lives. Does the end justify the means? Is all fair in love and war? Can you live with that?
On a larger scale there is no guarantee that our perimeter will no be breached and the out post taken over. Although the files transmitters and other equipment were rigged with explosives in case of such an event we ate, slept, and lived on the sacrificial alter of War. A Navy battle ship with one and only one mission was armed, aimed, and assigned to instantaneously obliterate our outpost to prevent compromise. I and all my friends were an expendable source of knowledge.
Jim Raab
http://www.jimraab.blogspot.com/
Monday, April 20, 2009
My Mental State
I am diagnosed and treated for PTSD Post Traumatic Stress Disorder with the associated hippocampus limitations and with TBI Traumatic Brain Injury resulting in a misfiring of the temporal and frontal lobes called simple partial epilepsy.
My current mental state would best be described as forgetfulness, especially short term memory, as associated with the hippocampus, executive dysfunction, with inability to plan, organize or make decisions, as associated with the frontal lobe, cognitive and emotional dysfunction associated with the temporal lobe and I have a problem caring that much about anything.
I returned from Vietnam without memory of the experience, without reading and writing ability, and totally opposite in every decent way. At that time PTSD was not acknowledged and psycho mental was an extreme consideration. I like the 58 thousand that were killed in country; the 58 thousand that committed suicide thereafter, the 58 thousand that returned addicted to drugs, and the 58 thousand that remained homeless was and remain an expendable cost of doing business.
At age 45 with a complete breakdown realized that the world hadn’t changed, it was I that had a problem, and I sought help from the VA. I was for 10 years in and out of the VA hospital mistreated as a psycho mental and sedated. During that time I was not scanned or diagnosed with PTSD or TBI.
I enlisted in a secret service with a top secret clearance and still unable to obtain records of my Vietnam activates. The VA still denies any responsibility for my demise and I paid for my hospital mistreatment. Also my earned income credit and tax returns were confiscated to that end.
At age 55 I was correctly diagnosed by doctor Mueller at Princeton Hospital with the use of brain scans and properly treated for my TBI and PTSD. I have been in his care and rehabilitation ever since then. The rehabilitation includes medical understanding of the disability, limitations, and expected treatment. At that time I was rated as disabled and began collecting 9 hundred dollars a month in SSD Social Security Disability. I receive 14 dollars a month in food stamps and 30 dollars a month returned from the VA. My current Doctor and Dentist provide me with free medical care. I am very grateful to Peter S Mueller MD 609 924 xxxx and William Moskowitz DDS 732 583 xxxx for my health.
In short I can still fix appliances but repeatedly get shocked and have left the premises without tightening the gas lines. I spend more time looking for than doing. I limit myself to doing odd jobs with rather than for my family and friends as in supervised.
I can talk to my computer and it reads to me, that along with spell check and synonyms I get the job done. The properly treatment, rehabilitation, and this communication ability has given me new life.
I can now read and comprehend a few paragraphs even a page or two. I don’t expect to read any books but I like to write. I’m not shocked by the thoughts I write. This took over 5 hours to write but I could not sleep and this is safe to do and keeps me out of harms way.
Thanks for asking, Jim Raab
http://jimraab.blogspot.com/
My current mental state would best be described as forgetfulness, especially short term memory, as associated with the hippocampus, executive dysfunction, with inability to plan, organize or make decisions, as associated with the frontal lobe, cognitive and emotional dysfunction associated with the temporal lobe and I have a problem caring that much about anything.
I returned from Vietnam without memory of the experience, without reading and writing ability, and totally opposite in every decent way. At that time PTSD was not acknowledged and psycho mental was an extreme consideration. I like the 58 thousand that were killed in country; the 58 thousand that committed suicide thereafter, the 58 thousand that returned addicted to drugs, and the 58 thousand that remained homeless was and remain an expendable cost of doing business.
At age 45 with a complete breakdown realized that the world hadn’t changed, it was I that had a problem, and I sought help from the VA. I was for 10 years in and out of the VA hospital mistreated as a psycho mental and sedated. During that time I was not scanned or diagnosed with PTSD or TBI.
I enlisted in a secret service with a top secret clearance and still unable to obtain records of my Vietnam activates. The VA still denies any responsibility for my demise and I paid for my hospital mistreatment. Also my earned income credit and tax returns were confiscated to that end.
At age 55 I was correctly diagnosed by doctor Mueller at Princeton Hospital with the use of brain scans and properly treated for my TBI and PTSD. I have been in his care and rehabilitation ever since then. The rehabilitation includes medical understanding of the disability, limitations, and expected treatment. At that time I was rated as disabled and began collecting 9 hundred dollars a month in SSD Social Security Disability. I receive 14 dollars a month in food stamps and 30 dollars a month returned from the VA. My current Doctor and Dentist provide me with free medical care. I am very grateful to Peter S Mueller MD 609 924 xxxx and William Moskowitz DDS 732 583 xxxx for my health.
In short I can still fix appliances but repeatedly get shocked and have left the premises without tightening the gas lines. I spend more time looking for than doing. I limit myself to doing odd jobs with rather than for my family and friends as in supervised.
I can talk to my computer and it reads to me, that along with spell check and synonyms I get the job done. The properly treatment, rehabilitation, and this communication ability has given me new life.
I can now read and comprehend a few paragraphs even a page or two. I don’t expect to read any books but I like to write. I’m not shocked by the thoughts I write. This took over 5 hours to write but I could not sleep and this is safe to do and keeps me out of harms way.
Thanks for asking, Jim Raab
http://jimraab.blogspot.com/
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
# 8 "Ready Access to Essential Evidence"
“NARA ensures, for the Citizen and the public Servant, for the President and the Congress and the Courts, ready access to essential evidence.”
I thought I might be included in that statement somewhere.
I would like to mention a this point that the Advocate of the Veterans Administration Hospital and other VA avenues of assistance continue to insist that my records are located at the
NARA
National Archives and Records Administration
Modern Military Records NWCTM
8601 Adelphi Road, Room 2400
College Park, MD 20740
My inquires to NARA by phone, mail, and email have insisted that my records are not there and they are located at the
NPRC
National Personnel Records Center
Military Personnel Records
9700 Page Avenue
St. Louis MO 63132
Inquiring to NPRC by phone, mail, and email have not found anything about me at that location but they have not denied or implied they do not have them or that they do not exist. More like I do not exist.
I have been advised that I can mosey on over to Missouri after making arrangements with the customer service representative for an appointment to schedule the opportunity to do the search. That searches are time consuming and the charge for copies of information are 10 cents each and I can be assisted for 14 dollars an hour paid in advance.
The NPRC service rep has informed me that I will need authorization for access to my records and I should contact
Department of the Army
Privacy Acts Office
7701 Telegraph Road
Alexandria, VA 22315
Thank You, Jim Raab. http://jimraab.blogspot.com/
I thought I might be included in that statement somewhere.
I would like to mention a this point that the Advocate of the Veterans Administration Hospital and other VA avenues of assistance continue to insist that my records are located at the
NARA
National Archives and Records Administration
Modern Military Records NWCTM
8601 Adelphi Road, Room 2400
College Park, MD 20740
My inquires to NARA by phone, mail, and email have insisted that my records are not there and they are located at the
NPRC
National Personnel Records Center
Military Personnel Records
9700 Page Avenue
St. Louis MO 63132
Inquiring to NPRC by phone, mail, and email have not found anything about me at that location but they have not denied or implied they do not have them or that they do not exist. More like I do not exist.
I have been advised that I can mosey on over to Missouri after making arrangements with the customer service representative for an appointment to schedule the opportunity to do the search. That searches are time consuming and the charge for copies of information are 10 cents each and I can be assisted for 14 dollars an hour paid in advance.
The NPRC service rep has informed me that I will need authorization for access to my records and I should contact
Department of the Army
Privacy Acts Office
7701 Telegraph Road
Alexandria, VA 22315
Thank You, Jim Raab. http://jimraab.blogspot.com/
#7 "NPRC Reply. 2."
NPRC SEARCH Date Nov 2007
NATIONAL PERSONNEL RECORDS CENTER.
Military Personnel Records
9700 Page Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63132
REPLY REQUEST FOR ORGANIZATIONAL RECORDS.
NAME/ BRANCH OF SERVICE / SECURITY NUMBER.
RAAB, JAMES Army Security Agency RA1176XXXX
A search of our organizational records holdings was made based on the information you provided. The results of our search are shown below. The following is a key to the abbreviations used for the most commonly requested records: M/R - Morning Reports; Rosters; C/M - Courts-martial Transcripts; A/R Academic Records; and PDC - Personnel Data Card
ARMY ASA, 138th AVIATION CO, Dates Jan Feb and Mar 1970
Type of Record: [R] [M/R] [A/R, N/A] [C/M, N/A] [PDC, N/A]
Results of Search Note 2, Note 9.
See Note Comments below.
Note 1. The requested copies are enclosed. We regret that-some of the copies may be of poor quality; however they are the best copies obtainable.
Note 2. A search of these records failed to locate any entries/files pertaining to the individual named above.
Note 3. These records are not on file in this Center.
Note 4. We suggest you contact the office shown below in order to obtain copies of the desired records.
Note 5. The requested record has been lent to the office shown below and may be obtained by writing directly to that facility.
Note 6. The Privacy Act pf 1974 does not permit the release of a social security number or other personal information to the public without the authorization of the veteran concerned; therefore, we have deleted personal identifying data relating to other persons.
Note 7. Morning reports and personnel rosters are available for most Army organizations beginning with the year 1912; however, they were discontinued in 1974. EXCEPTION: Personnel rosters for the years 1944, 1945, and 1946 were destroyed in accordance with the General Records Schedule.
Note 8. Morning Reports are only available for most Air Force organizations for the years 1947 through 1966.
Note 9. Morning Reports generally contain the name, service number, and rank for those members of the unit who experienced a change in duty Status such as discharge, death, temporary duty, absence, return from absence, reassignment, period of hospitalization, etc. They rarely show specific details about a unit's activities or movements, nor do they reflect accidents injuries that did not result in the hospitalization of the individual(s) involved.
Note 10. Personnel rosters were prepared on a monthly, quarterly, or semi-annual basis and generally list the name, service number, and rank (but not home address) of all members assigned to the unit on the date the roster was created.
Note 11. This Center is unable to perform the extensive research you have requested because of staffing and budget limitations. If you wish to verify a specific event or personnel action, please furnish the month/year in which it occurred and we will conduct a limited search for the desired information.
Note 12. Additional information is needed in order to locate the requested records. Please provide the items indicated below and resubmit your request to this Center for a further search.
Note 13. This Center is prohibited from releasing prison records except to the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, KS. We are, therefore, referring your request to the office shown below for a determination of reliability.
Note 14. The Department of Defense Privacy Program, 32 CFR 310.41(d), prohibits the release of the home address of current or former service personnel. We are unable, therefore, to furnish the information requested
Comments: Missing information
A search of 138th Aviation Co failed to show any Rosters for 1970.
JAMES RAAB
FOREST AVE
NJ 08879
Prepared by: A. Brown, Records Retrieval Branch Date: 6-11-07
NATIONAL PERSONNEL RECORDS CENTER.
Military Personnel Records
9700 Page Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63132
Thank You, Jim Raab. http://jimraab.blogspot.com/
NATIONAL PERSONNEL RECORDS CENTER.
Military Personnel Records
9700 Page Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63132
REPLY REQUEST FOR ORGANIZATIONAL RECORDS.
NAME/ BRANCH OF SERVICE / SECURITY NUMBER.
RAAB, JAMES Army Security Agency RA1176XXXX
A search of our organizational records holdings was made based on the information you provided. The results of our search are shown below. The following is a key to the abbreviations used for the most commonly requested records: M/R - Morning Reports; Rosters; C/M - Courts-martial Transcripts; A/R Academic Records; and PDC - Personnel Data Card
ARMY ASA, 138th AVIATION CO, Dates Jan Feb and Mar 1970
Type of Record: [R] [M/R] [A/R, N/A] [C/M, N/A] [PDC, N/A]
Results of Search Note 2, Note 9.
See Note Comments below.
Note 1. The requested copies are enclosed. We regret that-some of the copies may be of poor quality; however they are the best copies obtainable.
Note 2. A search of these records failed to locate any entries/files pertaining to the individual named above.
Note 3. These records are not on file in this Center.
Note 4. We suggest you contact the office shown below in order to obtain copies of the desired records.
Note 5. The requested record has been lent to the office shown below and may be obtained by writing directly to that facility.
Note 6. The Privacy Act pf 1974 does not permit the release of a social security number or other personal information to the public without the authorization of the veteran concerned; therefore, we have deleted personal identifying data relating to other persons.
Note 7. Morning reports and personnel rosters are available for most Army organizations beginning with the year 1912; however, they were discontinued in 1974. EXCEPTION: Personnel rosters for the years 1944, 1945, and 1946 were destroyed in accordance with the General Records Schedule.
Note 8. Morning Reports are only available for most Air Force organizations for the years 1947 through 1966.
Note 9. Morning Reports generally contain the name, service number, and rank for those members of the unit who experienced a change in duty Status such as discharge, death, temporary duty, absence, return from absence, reassignment, period of hospitalization, etc. They rarely show specific details about a unit's activities or movements, nor do they reflect accidents injuries that did not result in the hospitalization of the individual(s) involved.
Note 10. Personnel rosters were prepared on a monthly, quarterly, or semi-annual basis and generally list the name, service number, and rank (but not home address) of all members assigned to the unit on the date the roster was created.
Note 11. This Center is unable to perform the extensive research you have requested because of staffing and budget limitations. If you wish to verify a specific event or personnel action, please furnish the month/year in which it occurred and we will conduct a limited search for the desired information.
Note 12. Additional information is needed in order to locate the requested records. Please provide the items indicated below and resubmit your request to this Center for a further search.
Note 13. This Center is prohibited from releasing prison records except to the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, KS. We are, therefore, referring your request to the office shown below for a determination of reliability.
Note 14. The Department of Defense Privacy Program, 32 CFR 310.41(d), prohibits the release of the home address of current or former service personnel. We are unable, therefore, to furnish the information requested
Comments: Missing information
A search of 138th Aviation Co failed to show any Rosters for 1970.
JAMES RAAB
FOREST AVE
NJ 08879
Prepared by: A. Brown, Records Retrieval Branch Date: 6-11-07
NATIONAL PERSONNEL RECORDS CENTER.
Military Personnel Records
9700 Page Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63132
Thank You, Jim Raab. http://jimraab.blogspot.com/
Thursday, March 12, 2009
# 6 "NPRC REPLY. 1."
NPRC 07 SEARCH 1970, APRL, MAY, JUN
NATIONAL PERSONNEL RECORDS CENTER.
Military Personnel Records
9700 Page Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63132
REPLY REQUEST FOR ORGANIZATIONAL RECORDS.
NAME/ BRANCH OF SERVICE / SECURITY NUMBER.
RAAB, JAMES Army Security Agency RA1176XXXX
A search of our organizational records holdings was made based on the information you provided. The results of our search are shown below. The following is a key to the abbreviations used for the most commonly requested records: M/R - Morning Reports; Rosters; C/M - Courts-martial Transcripts; A/R Academic Records; and PDC - Personnel Data Card
ARMY ASA, 138th AVIATION CO, Dates APR., MAY, JUN 1970
Type of Record: [R] [M/R] [A/R, N/A] [C/M, N/A] [PDC, N/A]
Results of Search Note 2.
See Note Comments below.
Note 1. The requested copies are enclosed. We regret that-some of the copies may be of poor quality; however they are the best copies obtainable.
Note 2. A search of these records failed to locate any entries/files pertaining to the individual named above.
Note 3. These records are not on file in this Center.
Note 4. We suggest you contact the office shown below in order to obtain copies of the desired records.
Note 5. The requested record has been lent to the office shown below and may be obtained by writing directly to that facility.
Note 6. The Privacy Act pf 1974 does not permit the release of a social security number or other personal information to the public without the authorization of the veteran concerned; therefore, we have deleted personal identifying data relating to other persons.
Note 7. Morning reports and personnel rosters are available for most Army organizations beginning with the year 1912; however, they were discontinued in 1974. EXCEPTION: Personnel rosters for the years 1944, 1945, and 1946 were destroyed in accordance with the General Records Schedule.
Note 8. Morning Reports are only available for most Air Force organizations for the years 1947 through 1966.
Note 9. Morning Reports generally contain the name, service number, and rank for those members of the unit who experienced a change in duty Status such as discharge, death, temporary duty, absence, return from absence, reassignment, period of hospitalization, etc. They rarely show specific details about a unit's activities or movements, nor do they reflect accidents injuries that did not result in the hospitalization of the individual(s) involved.
Note 10. Personnel rosters were prepared on a monthly, quarterly, or semi-annual basis and generally list the name, service number, and rank (but not home address) of all members assigned to the unit on the date the roster was created.
Note 11. This Center is unable to perform the extensive research you have requested because of staffing and budget limitations. If you wish to verify a specific event or personnel action, please furnish the month/year in which it occurred and we will conduct a limited search for the desired information.
Note 12. Additional information is needed in order to locate the requested records. Please provide the items indicated below and resubmit your request to this Center for a further search.
Note 13. This Center is prohibited from releasing prison records except to the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, KS. We are, therefore, referring your request to the office shown below for a determination of reliability.
Note 14. The Department of Defense Privacy Program, 32 CFR 310.41(d), prohibits the release of the home address of current or former service personnel. We are unable, therefore, to furnish the information requested
Comments: Missing information
A search of 138th Aviation Co failed to show any Rosters for 1970.
JAMES RAAB
FOREST AVE
NJ 08879
Prepared by: A. Brown, Records Retrieval Branch Date: 6-11-07
NATIONAL PERSONNEL RECORDS CENTER.
Military Personnel Records
9700 Page Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63132
Thank You, Jim Raab. http://jimraab.blogspot.com/
NATIONAL PERSONNEL RECORDS CENTER.
Military Personnel Records
9700 Page Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63132
REPLY REQUEST FOR ORGANIZATIONAL RECORDS.
NAME/ BRANCH OF SERVICE / SECURITY NUMBER.
RAAB, JAMES Army Security Agency RA1176XXXX
A search of our organizational records holdings was made based on the information you provided. The results of our search are shown below. The following is a key to the abbreviations used for the most commonly requested records: M/R - Morning Reports; Rosters; C/M - Courts-martial Transcripts; A/R Academic Records; and PDC - Personnel Data Card
ARMY ASA, 138th AVIATION CO, Dates APR., MAY, JUN 1970
Type of Record: [R] [M/R] [A/R, N/A] [C/M, N/A] [PDC, N/A]
Results of Search Note 2.
See Note Comments below.
Note 1. The requested copies are enclosed. We regret that-some of the copies may be of poor quality; however they are the best copies obtainable.
Note 2. A search of these records failed to locate any entries/files pertaining to the individual named above.
Note 3. These records are not on file in this Center.
Note 4. We suggest you contact the office shown below in order to obtain copies of the desired records.
Note 5. The requested record has been lent to the office shown below and may be obtained by writing directly to that facility.
Note 6. The Privacy Act pf 1974 does not permit the release of a social security number or other personal information to the public without the authorization of the veteran concerned; therefore, we have deleted personal identifying data relating to other persons.
Note 7. Morning reports and personnel rosters are available for most Army organizations beginning with the year 1912; however, they were discontinued in 1974. EXCEPTION: Personnel rosters for the years 1944, 1945, and 1946 were destroyed in accordance with the General Records Schedule.
Note 8. Morning Reports are only available for most Air Force organizations for the years 1947 through 1966.
Note 9. Morning Reports generally contain the name, service number, and rank for those members of the unit who experienced a change in duty Status such as discharge, death, temporary duty, absence, return from absence, reassignment, period of hospitalization, etc. They rarely show specific details about a unit's activities or movements, nor do they reflect accidents injuries that did not result in the hospitalization of the individual(s) involved.
Note 10. Personnel rosters were prepared on a monthly, quarterly, or semi-annual basis and generally list the name, service number, and rank (but not home address) of all members assigned to the unit on the date the roster was created.
Note 11. This Center is unable to perform the extensive research you have requested because of staffing and budget limitations. If you wish to verify a specific event or personnel action, please furnish the month/year in which it occurred and we will conduct a limited search for the desired information.
Note 12. Additional information is needed in order to locate the requested records. Please provide the items indicated below and resubmit your request to this Center for a further search.
Note 13. This Center is prohibited from releasing prison records except to the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, KS. We are, therefore, referring your request to the office shown below for a determination of reliability.
Note 14. The Department of Defense Privacy Program, 32 CFR 310.41(d), prohibits the release of the home address of current or former service personnel. We are unable, therefore, to furnish the information requested
Comments: Missing information
A search of 138th Aviation Co failed to show any Rosters for 1970.
JAMES RAAB
FOREST AVE
NJ 08879
Prepared by: A. Brown, Records Retrieval Branch Date: 6-11-07
NATIONAL PERSONNEL RECORDS CENTER.
Military Personnel Records
9700 Page Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63132
Thank You, Jim Raab. http://jimraab.blogspot.com/
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