An Khe - Camp Radcliffe

Former Camp Radcliffe An Khe activated August 1965 by the 70th Engineer Battalion as the base camp for the 1st Cavalry Division (1965-1971) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/1st_Cavalry_Division_CSIB.png The base was then the largest helicopter base in the world and capable of accommodating the 1st Cavalry's 400+ helicopters. Its airfield was capable of landing C-130 aircraft. The base had a perimeter of 26 km known as the Green Line with 3-man watchtowers every 50m

!st Cav Div Airmobile saw combat during the Vietnam War as the first deployed air assault division using Bell UH-1 Huey helicopters as troop carriers. The division's colors and unit designations were transferred in 1965 when deploying to Camp Radcliffe. The division perfected tactics and doctrine for helicopter assaults over the next 5 years in Vietnam.
These are all in the Vietnam war deployed 1st Cavalry units:
- 1st, 2nd and 3rd Brigade; - 1st and 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry; - 1st, 2nd and 5th Battalion, 7th Cavalry; - 1st and 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry; - 1st and 2nd Battalion, 12th Cavalry; - 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry;
- 1st Cavalry Division Artillery; - 2nd Battalion, 19th Artillery; - 2nd Battalion, 20th Artillery; - 1st Battalion, 21st Artillery; - 1st Battalion, 77th Artillery; - Battery E, 82d Artillery
- 11th Aviation Group; - 227th, 228th and 229th Aviation Battalion; - 11th Aviation Company
- 8th Engineer Battalion
- 13th Signal Battalion
- 1st Cavalry Division Support Command; - 15th Administration Company; - 15th Medical Battalion; - 15th Transportation Battalion 88th trans; - 27th Maintenance Battalion; - 15th Supply and Transport Battalion and - 545th MP Company

YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeFq4ju31wI
Ranger 1st Cav Div Airmobile website:
http://www.ranger25.com/

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