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12/20/2001
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DakTo#2
A Company, 299th Engineer Battalion, and the 15th Engineer Co.
in the vicinity of Dak To.
Capt. Robert Faxon, Company Commander, laid out this compound.
[Information from Paul Erickson, 299th Eng.and Tom Heckman, USAF RTO Team.]


The photo of the triangular shaped compound was the home of A-Company 299th Cbt Eng Bn, we built the airstrip and the SF camps throughout Kontum Province. That particular compound came under attack in 1969. A-Co received the Valorous Unit Award for their actions which defended the compound and the airstrip. They never made it into the compound. We reunited for the first time in 32 years last September in Oshkosh, WI. Needless to say it was emotionally charged.
[Information from Steve Fredericksen (Hostile Temper One Zero Zulu), VP of the National Association of A-Company 299th Combat Engineers - Vietnam. dakto67@optonline.net ]