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Bad weather delayed the planned landing on Nov. 10th—this was just a harbinger of things to come. The landing ‘warning orders’ were on again—off again for two more days until the morning of Nov. 12 when we finally disembarked the USS Paul Revere and landed at Tam Ky—just North of Chu
Lai . 20@ The landing was ‘unopposed’ and quickly turned into a mess. ‘Someone’ up the chain of command had not actually reconned the beach we landed on.—it was actually a ‘sand spit’ —surrounded by deep channels of water which prevented us from moving inland. Eventually, with the help of the Navy and amtraks we were able to move inland and carry out our mission of tying in to the rest of BLT 2/7 and setting up security. We moved inland to our assigned locations—each Company was assigned an area of responsibility as we ‘unpacked’ and began the process of becoming familiar with the Chu Lai area.
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