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Monty Vogel  |
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Location: Standish, ME |
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Our 3-5 man MAT team's AO was the northern 2/3 of Pleiku Province, working mostly with Montagnard PF/RF units, in 70-71. I visited the small outpost at the top of Mang Yang a few times, have pictures of the many depressions in the ground that are graves. My advising of the small and lax Vietnamese unit there did no good, they got wiped out one night. The French graves at Mang Yang, were, I believe, mostly German soldiers, who had no job and no home after the war to come home to, enlisted in the French Foreign Legion. An extremely interesting and outstanding Montagnard Major Bang (prounounced Bong), whom I worked with often, and who spoke 7 Montagnard languages, Vietnamese, English, and German, with no formal education, told me this. He was THE commander of that area's Montagnard troops. Some neat stories about working with this guy. P.S.: Personally, I never felt any PTSD. MV
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