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The Sunday News Tribune reported Jan. 21, 1968, one of the local radio stations had received a letter from Buchta stating, "In Lai Khe where I am presently stationed, the Armed Forces Radio ...
In April 1968, I was a 21-year-old Air Force sergeant in Vietnam, assigned to an Army base camp surrounding the village of Lai Khe, nearly 40 miles north of Saigon. As usual, it was sweltering ...
FORT RILEY, Kan. -- Friday, Sept. 13, 1968 -- Ted Englemann was a young Air Force radio operator at Lai Khe Base Camp, Vietnam; Maj. Gen. Keith L. Ware, commanding general of the 1st Infantry ...
Commentator Forrest Brandt served in an earlier conflict — he was with the 1st Infantry Division in Lai Khe, Vietnam, from 1968-69. Brandt, now a retired lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserves ...