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Subject: 1ST SA  ROUGH DRAFT  2 PAGES                                    

Unit: 2D ACR      

Parent Organization: VII  CORPS  

Box  ID: BX001703

Folder Title: 2D ACR HISTORICAL INTERVIEWS                                                                    

Document Number:         15

Folder Seq  #:         39










         bursting point. Ahd as a result of this,                       atrines,
         were. if not over-Flowing, +ille                              The
         anno                                                      es   non-exlstant
         latr
                  El                              -F the sol          ere glad to
         get away from the ISA.
           @As soldiers would -Find out           I            terrain of the 19A
         wou@ not be like the terrain             +            and. And this was
         good,                                     to a large sand box of I
         soft,                                        Scott recalls, however,,
         that                                         seant. .
                  Sci                             nt             he refers to as
         the ",                                   trucks whi         rained the
         latrines were "never around when you needed them" and woul,d
         usually come at night, when everyone was sleeping. And of
         course the noise of the trucks would wake everyone up and,
         the troopers would "jog over and line up in the middle of
         the night ... waiting to go to the bathroom."


                                         4th Squadron
                  At'the ISA, Howarlcl'thLL rest of the pilots begin @tinc;
         int@ igence on what the environment was going @ do to i
         their                      helicopters. "The *irs@ing we heard
         about                     ioration of ... encji @and rotor @
         blades                         ty of the           involved "ttping",the
         blades    to withstand the                           Howard says at
         -First being in the                                "It's like when you
         were a kid and use                                  r movies and you'd,
         see the big blti                   the Normandy          sion and all o@
  big                ple;
         and e(                     of thirfgs hat3benirig.@.-.                  f el t.
         lik      oLt were a part of something. It was

                                             !5 -Mpr@                        @s  @Ld- 7
         sa@,,    "Basically i
         they
         knew whlre th                                                                the
         sun ro5e-.-- @You could hear

                                                             onditio@,is              t,
                                                                          t, it
                                             up the troops' morale.@




                  c            the s      c?rs were trying to a
         them                                     diet, and othe                      f,
         Saud                                                      ot
         envi

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Document 2 f:/Week-48/BX001703/2D ACR HISTORICAL INTERVIEWS/1st sa rough draft 2 pages:01029718421816
Control Fields 17
File Room = sep96_declassified
File Cabinet = Week-48
Box ID = BX001703
Unit = 2D ACR
Parent Organization = VII CORPS
Folder Title = 2D ACR HISTORICAL INTERVIEWS
Folder Seq # = 39
Subject = 1ST SA ROUGH DRAFT 2 PAGES
Document Seq # = 15
Document Date =
Scan Date =
Queued for Declassification = 01-JAN-1980
Short Term Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Long Term Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Permanent Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Non-Health Related Document = 01-JAN-1980
Declassified = 02-JAN-1997