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Brady
Tape One Side One
Sound bite One:
039-070 DV: and was you idea to lead a rifle company in combat, was that what you wanted to do? EB: no my main objective was that…um…by the time I was, you know, two thirds or three quarters the way through the Naval Academy I had done an extensive amount reading about what we then called insurgency and counterinsurgency DV: why not the SEALs? EB: well the SEALs were very, very small then and, in fact—if I remember correctly, they would not allow graduates to be assigned to the SEALs in those days. This was still the pre-Vietnam era and…uh….Special Forces operations in all the services were looked down upon, were not things that regular officers and certainly not academy graduates went to. So…uh…my, you know, wanted to be involved in that kind of warfare. I thought that was the big thing…uh…I studied Spanish and I had been to…uh….several international conferences with Latin American students. It was clear to me, you know, that many of them had a communist orientation and an interest in nationalism and free of economic imperialism and political imperialism and all those kinds of terminologies. There was a general feeling at the time that communists were making advances in third world countries, conferences in India, you know, non-aligned nations and all that kind of…uh…feeling. So it seemed to me that if we are going to go to war and if we are going to fight that would surely be the place we are going to fight and that Europe was not ever going to be the battleground. So…uh…I had that kind of orientation and my first thought was actually going into the Marine Corps. DV: well that would’ve seemed… EB: because they are frequently the first to go they have the highest
 spirit de corps
and that was another thing I was looking for I thought the services in general had poor morale, poor discipline, not very capable and then the elite special kinds of forces, like the Marines or the SEALS and people like that were  better.
Sound bite 2:
093-105 DV: so where did you go? EB: So I wanted to go to the 82
nd
 Airborne Division. They…uh…thought I was crazy. They wanted me to go to a tank division in Germany or maybe go to Korea, some exotic assignment. They thought going to North Carolina was totally foolish but the reason I wanted to go there was I thought the 82
nd
 Airborne Division from a training, moral,
 spirit de corps
, and specialty kind of orientation was the closest thing to Force Recon in the Marine Corp which is what I wanted to do. So I told I thought the 82
nd
 division was the best division in the Army, that it was special, that it thought it was special, that it acted like it was special, treated it people like they were special. It had good discipline and that was the kind of unit I wanted to be in and they said ok.
Sound bite 3:
 218-270 DV: lets skip along to Vietnam
 
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EB: Alright, so l left Santa Domingo and came back to Fort Bragg, went through the military advisors school and went to Vietnam. I had spent well over a year arranging my assignment to Vietnam. Almost every Monday morning I was calling the Pentagon and lining up what I wanted as an assignment. DV: and you to be an advisor to Ranger… EB: I wanted to be a Ranger advisor and…uh…I ended up doing that. I went to the 22
nd
 Ranger Battalion which was based in Lake Queitcaton. DV: and when did you get there? EB: August of ’65, which was just when the first units were arriving when they decided to have build up and I think, if I remember correctly, the 1073
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 Airborne Brigade moved into that area from Okinawa, either just before I got there or right after I got there and that was the first major Army unit. DV: so you were part, then, of MACV as an advisor and was there a province system? EB: I was with MACV the entire time I was there DV: was there…was there a province setup there you were in, at that point? EB: no, the provinces were part of MACV but they were separate. There were advisors to the Vietnamese Army and there were advisors to the districts and the regions DV: right EB: districts, provinces, regions DV: ok EB: and I was on the military side so…um…this battalion and there were three battalions up there and they were all assigned to these coordinates (not sure?) to keep it preserved and that was their mission and I was assigned to them and we saw a lot of combat and did a lot of things because during ’65 in the Highlands the NVA was building up rapidly G2 (not sure?) was reporting there were not NVA there…uh….all kinds of things that were problems but the classic kind of thing you hear was we had one of three mission you either had for us what was a relatively dull mission which was to upon up a road somewhere and let the take convoys threw for two or three days to resupply the province capitals and things like that, where the VC had cut them off. They had the roads controlled because they were insecure or…uh…they…uh…had regular army units in trouble somewhere and they would throw us in as reinforcements and those were usually where we took heavy casualties so it was some kind of tactical emergency in the Corp area and the regular army was suffering and not winning and they’d move us in as reinforcements or the other thing that went on a lot in those days were special forces camps were constantly getting surrounded by these NVA units and literally being laid siege to and so a few weeks went by and special forces couldn’t solve this problem they would ask for reinforcements to break the siege and they would send the Rangers in and depending on where it was, if they could get their by road, a couple of APC companies, which were also in the Corps reserve, sort of break through from behind,  break through the NVA units and get into the camp and let the camp pull out and so we did that a lot
Sound bite 3:
280-319 DV: did you have any anti-infrastructure kind of mission at all? EB: these were regular operations

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