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The 2nd Battalion also provided infantry soldiers to the UN for a QRF sent in to rescue members of Task Force Ranger who were pinned down during a raid in what is known as today as the Battle of Mogadishu. The last soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry returned to the United States in March 1994.
The 22nd Division (Vietnamese: Sư đoàn 22; Chữ Hán: 師團22) of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) was part of the II Corps that oversaw the region of the Central Highlands north of the capital Saigon. The 22nd Division was based in Ba Gi near the south central coast.
3rd Battalion, 22nd Infantry (October–November 1966) [3]: 145 2nd Battalion, 47th Infantry (March–July 1968) [ 3 ] : 150 1 Bearcat also served as the base for the Royal Thai Army Expeditionary Division forces from 1968.
On 19 March, in an area surrounded by a tree line of sparse woodland that had been scarred by defoliants, American helicopters landed the 3rd Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment and the 2nd Battalion, 77th Artillery Regiment, led by Lieutenant Colonels John A. Bender and John William Vessey Jr., respectively, as part of the 3rd Brigade, 4th Infantry Division led by Colonel Marshall B. Garth. [1]
2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Division search and destroy operation: Jan 27 – Feb 7: Operation Linn River [1] [5]: 91 1st Battalion, 7th Marines and 2nd Battalion, 26th Marines clear and search operation: Quảng Nam Province: Jan 29 – Feb 9: Operation Sherman Peak [1] [6] 2nd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division and ARVN 1st Division clear and ...
A scout platoon of M113s from the 2nd Battalion, 34th Armor enters the base, 9 August 1970. Tây Ninh Combat Base was established approximately 5 km west of the city of Tây Ninh and 12 km from the Vietnam-Cambodia border.
On 20 June, Company C, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment discovered the bodies of a Special Forces CIDG unit that had been missing for four days on Hill 1338 (), the dominant hill mass south of Dak To. With mortar fire and ambushes ongoing around the Dak To base camp, the 173rd Airborne Brigade, a highly-mobile team intended to rapidly ...
The 3rd Battalion, 22nd Infantry, conducted the sweep, with Company A, 2nd Battalion, 34th Armor and part of the 4th Battalion, 23rd Infantry, waiting at the bottom of the slope as a blocking force. Before dawn tanks and infantry took up positions at the foot of Nui Ba Den.