1ST BN /27TH INFANTRY REGIMENT DEPLOYED FROM KOREA TO SOUTH VIETNAM ,REPUBLIC OF... UNDER THE 25TH I D /2ND BDE..THE WOLFHOUND BDE,ALSO PART OF THE 9TH I D.MANY OF THEM HAD TRAINED AT THE ACTA (ADVANCED COMBAT TRAINING ACADEMY .WHICH STARTED IN KOREA..IN 1965. EVERY ONE WHO GRADUATED FROM ACTA WERE IMJIN SCOUTS(WHO FOUGHT AT THEIMJIN RIVER AND THE DMZ IN KOREA(38TH PRARLLEL) THEY WORE THAT PROUD PATCH ON THEIR RIGHT POCKETS OF THEIR COMBAT BDUS IN VIETNAM(ALSO KOREA). THEY WERE AT CHU CHI, HOBO WOODS TAY NIHN PROVINCE ,AND THE COSVN. IN VIETNAM ,A SPECIAL FORCES CAPT.(1964) AT CAMP NAM DONG 12 MAN A-TEAM A-762 BECAME THE VERY 1ST VN WAR HERO. HE EARNED THE CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR. THE GREEN BERET ,5TH SFG (ABN),INDURED A WAVE OF 900 ENEMY TROOPS IN AN ATTEMPT TO OVERRUN NAM DONG. CAPT. ROGER H.DONLON AN IMJIN SCOUT. NOW WITH THE 2ND ID ,A MAJOR. HE FOUGHT IN THE FORGOTTEN FRONT OF KOREA .THE KOREAN WAR ENDED IN 1953!!!! YET FROM 1966-1969 THE 2ND KOREAN WAR HAD BROKE OUT. THE IMJIN SCOUTS AND OTHER INF.UNITS . FROM 1966-1974 MAJOR DONLON WAS APART OF THE UNIT THAT ENDURED . HE WAS CO OF THE 1ST BEGINNING OF THE ACTA. OTHER IMJIN SCOUTS GOT CERTIFIED THROUGH 25 MISSIONS OF COMBAT IN AND AROUND THE IMJIN RIVER AND THE DMZ. IMET IMJIN SCOUTS IN THE MEKONG DELTA(9TH ID) AT FIRE BASE BLAZE, AND THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS (I CORPS, IV CORPS) RECONDOS 2ND BN /CO .B 502 PIR/101ST ABN DIV. AIRMOBILE(AA) AND AS PART OF THE 3BN/187TH I R (IRON RAKKASANS )(ARCT)RECONDOS,WORKING WITH THE 5TH SFG( ABN)WE WERE THE ROVING, MIGRANT,CONTINGENT THAT HELPED ANY AND EVERY UNIT IN TROUBLE, HAD NO SPECIFIC DESTINATION IN VIETNAM. FROM THE DMZ ,I CORPS TO VI CORPS TO THE SOUTH CHINA SEA, CAMBODIA,THAILAND,LAOS,EVEN ACROSS THE DMZ. THE TIME I SPENT WITH THE WOLFHOUNDS WAS DANGEROUS TIME SPAN. IT MADE ME VOLUNTEER FOR SPECIAL FORCES IN DEC.1969 THAT'S MY PART OF 2ND I D HISTORY AND I AM STICKING TO IT!!!!! CSM LOUIS B.NANCE