Air Support – February 1968

 

Air Support

  1. Fixed Wing Support
  2. No fixed wing A/C were controlled by 1/4 this month.  Six air strikes, consisting of 12 sorties, were run in the AOR and controlled by AO’s.  Only partial bomb damage assessment was received, including 2 bunkers destroyed and 2 KBA.
  3. Med-evacs
  4. 2 emergency – 63 minutes average
  5. 5 priority – 2 hours and 31 minutes average
  6. 17 routine – 1 hour 34 minutes average
  7. Air observers
  8. AO’s were used almost daily, results depended on the weather.  AO’s controlled the only air strikes in the Battalion’s AOR.
  9. Troop lift
  10. Two troop lifts were conducted
  11. Co. Echo/2/4, 1 hour and 46 minutes daytime lift
  12. 38 Marines from Co. B/2nd Plt (Sparrow Hawk), 15 minutes from alert time.
  13. Resupply
  14. Resupply by air was unnecessary due to the availability of truck resupply.
  15. TPQ’s
  16. 146 requested
  17. 15 run
  18. C&C flights
  19. Requested 2 helicopters for 8 persons for 30 minutes.
  20. Received 1 helicopter for 4 persons for 15 minutes.

This page was last corrected 31 August 2011