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The
199th Infantry was formed on
March 23,1966 at Fort Benning,
Georgia. In September 1966 the
199th was sent to Camp Shelby
Mississippi for advanced Infantry
training. After the advaced
training the unit was shipped to
South Vietnam in November 1966 at
Vung Tau (R & R ) site. After
arriving in South Vietnam the
unit was then sent to the swamp
where it set up base camp. It was
unnamed when the unit arrived on
9 Dec 66. It was to the right as
you faced the main road to
Saigon. Camp Frenzell Jones was
on the north side of the Railroad
Tracks that seperated Long Bihn
from Camp Frenzell Jones which
became the first home to the
199th. The 17th Cav was between
the 199th Infantry and Long Binh.
It also had Redcatcher forward
which was located at the fishnet
factory later in 1968. The 199th
served in South Vietnam for 4
years and the colors were
returned to Fort Benning, Georgia
in 1970 and the unit was
inactived. The Brigade found new
life in 1991 when the remaining
3rd Brigade of the 9th Division
(which was inactive),The
Redcatcher patch was worn again
from 1991 to 1992 at Fort Lewis,
Washington. At the United States
Infantry School at Fort Benning,
Georgia there is a memorial
deticated to the men of the 199th
Infantry Brigade in front of the
Museum. It was deticated March
23, 1996.
The
units that made up the
199th Light Infantry Brigade
were:
2nd
Battalion 3rd Infantry
3rd
Battalion 7th Infantry
4th
Battalion 12th Infantry
2nd
Battalion 40th Artillery
D
Troop 17th Cavalry
7th
Support Battalion
87th
Engineer Company
((
5th Battalion 12th Infantry was
assigned on April 7,1968.))
To
view the other units that were
assigned to the
199th Infantry click on
"Follow Me Patch to the
right."
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This Web Site is
dedicated to SFC (Retired) Clay
and those who served in Vietnam
and returned home, to
those who will never return and
to those who are still waiting to
return. God
Bless all of you for your
service..
About Vietnam
The Vietnam war
was the longest in our nation's
history. July 8, 1959 to May 15,
1975. Approximately
2.7 million Americans served
in the war zone;
300,000 were
wounded and nearly 76,000
permanently disabled.
Of
the casualties, over 2,100 remain
missing and unaccounted for as of
Jan. 2000.
Vietnam was where
death could and did strike from
anywhere with absolutely no
warning. The brave young men who
fought that war paid an awful
price of blood, pain and
suffering.
"ALL GAVE SOME
............... SOME GAVE ALL"
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| The Vietnam war
was not lost on the battlefield.
No American force in any other
war fought with more
determination, pride or
sheer courage than the Vietnam
Veteran. The
Media was more interested in a
story than the truth!
The
young Americans fought so
courageously, never lost a single
major battle. They inturn helped
in a large way to win the cold
war. This
site is dedicated to those brave
men and women, living and dead
who did their duty to the fullest
in war of attrition we were not
ALLOWED to win. We never ran,
never abandoned our wounded,
never stopped loving America even
when America abandoned us ... and
still abandons our POW/MIA's.
A Vietnam Veteran
I, AM... shall never forget the
war or our POW/MIA's!
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