13-14 March 1968 Det 6 Mission

[Dan Arnes]

This was a post yesterday on Facebook by Doug Wilson, (Army Crewchief with 175th AHC, Vinh Long Mavericks):

13-14 MARCH 1968, I recently bought a book, The Teams, an oral history of the U S Navy Seals. There is a night operation mentioned of 2 Outlaw slicks 26 & 66 picking up the Seals.
Does anyone remember that operation. Dan Arnes do you recall the Seawolves working that night.
(I told him they worked every night!)

He emailed me copies of the pages and I tweaked them up and although the entire story is worth reading, I framed the parts mentioning the Seawolves. In the email he said:
"Dan, some documentary folks are planning a documentary about this Seal Team and this Operation. They have been in touch with the Team and Vietnamese interpreter.
The Documentary company has also contacted an Outlaw pilot who contacted me.

If anyone recalls the mission, let me know and I'll get you in contact with Doug, who can get in touch with the Documentary people.

They mention "Seawolf 66 & 69". Here are the pages.











Dan

[Ray N. Lazo]

If the Army slicks were out of Vinh-long wouldn't have the Seawolves been out of Vinh-long as well? That would make their tail numbers start with 3. So it would be 36 and 39 or 32 and I don't remember hearing of any Seawolf Huey being unarmed.

[Dan Arnes]

Ray,
All of our gunship tail numbers started with "3" followed by 2 other numbers, but those numbers in the article referred to Call Signs, not Tail Numbers. Those call signs "66" & "69" would be Det 6 Call signs.

All the Dets except Det 2, moved around frequently, so Det 6 may have also been in the area at that time.

I posted the article to see if anyone recalled the mission, but appears no one has yet...

Dan