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We didn’t spend much time in these new surroundings, however, as we began our routine patrols, operations and sweeps from squad size to Company size. Our new TAOR encompassed some of the small islands in and around the Northern section of Chu Lai, the LST Ramp and inland encompassing the foothills in and around Chu Lai.
Not long after joining up with A Company, 1/4 —-more of my original platoon Marines were transferred to the units within 1/4—my sergeants were replaced with new ones—as well as a couple of my squad leaders and various other random members of the original platoon. The Marines being transferred in were all good Marines but they required some extra time to rehearse and practice our platoon’s way of doing things —like with any team they required time to make these adjustments—and time was our enemy. The squad leaders, the new platoon sergeant and myself worked overtime teaching our new Marines what we expected—the platoon sergeant was both a student and a teacher as he adjusted to his new assignment.
This same routine was being carried out in each of the former E Company platoons who were now A-2 and A-3 platoons. Lt’s Kozak and Boryszewski were filtering in new people as well —I had lost track of Lt. Lloyd during the changeover from 2/7—he either stayed with 2/7 in a weapons platoon unit or he transferred along with the rest of E Company—I never found out . Nov. was, for the most part, a transition month as the involved Marines, platoons, Companies and Battalions carried out ‘operation mixmaster’ one of the biggest boondoggles in the history of the Marine Corps.
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