User:Mickeyallums

I retired from the U.S. Army in January 1992, at Fort Stewart Georgia. My last assignment was Special Projects NCO for the Public Affairs Office, 24th Infantry Division. I joined the Army on 7 July 1965, at Jacksonville, Florida. The day before, Col. David H. Hackworth, the father of Tiger Force, and the S-3 of the 1st Battalion, 327th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 1st brigade, (Separate), 101st Airborne Division, stationed at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, deployed to the Republic of South Vietnam. I went to Vietnam in January 1967. With the 9th Infantry Division Pathfinder Detachment, of HHD, 9th Aviation Battalion, stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas. I earned my Combat Infantryman's Badge in the delta region around Division base Camp Martin Cox. for ambushes in Michelin rubber tree plantations. One of our other duties was to operate the air traffic control tower, on 24 hour rotating shifts. we experienced a number of emergency flights, such as, cripple birds, low or no fuel, and top priority,such as injured troops. This made for great job satisfaction with actively assisting Soldiers back to safety, and maintaining and helping to organize air traffic in an hostile and unpredictable environment. On 26 May 1967, i was an in-country transfer to 101st Airborne, Phang Rang. On 29 May I joined Tiger Force. I will be adding my accounts and experiences to Wikipedia as I can. In the mean time, read what they said I said in the pulitzer prize book, "Tiger Force, A true Story of Men and War". by Michael Sallah and Mitch Weiss. look me up in the index: ALLUMS MICHAEL. Don't believe every thing you read. Mick