land ten million USD justice center Lockhart, Caldwell County #13489

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"I  was at the base camp where the ARVN and US helicopters took off that particular day.  I got there with my waterwell drilling team in the evening, but the base camp was almost abandonded.  I set up my squad on full alert because the few pilots and crewmemebers of the 3 helicopters that survived, out of the 48 or so helicopters that were blown out of the air, that day,  were in the noncom's messhall, completely out of it!  Maybe a dozen survivors.  Shocked me and my body guard, a sergeant who drove my jeep with M60 and my 5-ton truck with 50 cal mounted in the back.  I was on the way to Pr'Lene Mountain with the waterwell drilling Winterweis rig and team.  Lam Son 719 operation failed, according to the documents I have read since then in the last 41 years,  because of Intel.  They were ready for the choppers that day, and blew them out of the air.  I  will never forget that. Niether will the dozen men who survived.   My team and I camped at the ARVN chopper base that night, and had no problems with mines nor mortars nor Claymores nor fire-fights that night.  But the next day we had sporadic fire fights along the road up the mountains to Pr'Lene Mountain sat station, and I have my men fire our M60, the 50 cal, and our M79 grenade launchers into the pine trees. 1971"