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I'm a Đức Cơ guy!

I was surprised and glad to see someone has taken the initiative to page on Đức Cơ. Đức Cơ has a special place in my heart because it was my first assignment when I arrived in Vietnam in Aug '69. I was a young captain when I assumed command of Detachment A-253, it was my first time with Montagnards, and my second A-Team command. I'm guessing from the write-up that you were not from 5th Special Forces. To the best of my limited knowledge, Đức Cơ was a CIDG camp from construction to the day it was turned over to the VN Rangers. From time to time we "hosted" conventional units, but no US units were "based" there. There are good reasons for this. Frankly, it was too dangerous. A unit of of any significant size would have been too tempting. We were within a few miles of the Ia Drang Valley which hid significant NVA resources. They wanted contact with large US units for propaganda reasons. Beyond that, the the supply lines that conventional units required were always a problem. The SF camps were effective on the frontier because our Montagnards were feared by the NVA and there was not much propaganda value in wiping them out. It wasn't newsy in the US. Where I think I might be able to help is in filling some of the blanks. A lot happened in the life of that camp. 97.73.244.229 (talk) 23:19, 21 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, any information you can add to the page would be appreciated but it must meet the requirements of WP:RS. "I was there" is not WP:RS. regards Mztourist (talk) 03:24, 22 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]