Eager Arms 1967-1968

2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment 1967-68

Vietnam, Company B, 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) Bravo Company, 2nd Bn, 8th Cav Regt. 1st Cavalry Division Bravo, 2-8th Cav - Co B, 2-8th Cav Regt. - B Co, 2-8 Cav Co B, 2/8 Cav Regt. - Co B, 2-8 Cav, 1st Cav Div - B/2-8, 1st Cavalry Div - B 2/8, 1st Cav Div

	Our Fallen Comrades
Introduction

Welcome.
This site is dedicated to those who served in Bravo Company, 2^nd Battalion (Airborne), 8^th Cavalry, 1^st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), during the Vietnam War. We also wish to extend a warm welcome to the many relatives and friends who have a special connection to Bravo Company, and as some of our visitors are probably not familiar with military matters, we have made a special effort to present this material without too much military jargon and with sufficient background to make it understandable to all.

In January 2007, several veterans who served in Bravo Company during 1967-68 decided to establish a website that would contain a summary of our tour of duty in Vietnam, together with photographs and a company roster with available email addresses. Our approach requires a brief explanation. A tour of duty in Vietnam was normally 12 months and the rotation period for most personnel arriving or departing 1^st Cavalry Division units was mostly during the summer months. In view of this rotation timeframe and our objectives, it made sense to focus on a specific period, such as, from the summer of 1967 to the summer of 1968, and so on. As the objective is to present a fairly detailed account of our year in Vietnam, this can only be prepared by veterans who served in Bravo Company during that particular year. We hope that our 1967-68 site will encourage other year groups to develop similar web sites that are linked together by our common name – Eager Arms, the radio call sign for Bravo Company during most of the Vietnam War. Therefore, the proposed site names and timeframes are “eagerarms1965-66”, “eagerarms1966-67”, this site – “eagerarms1967-68”, and so on.

The following persons have expressed an interest in developing a web site for the indicated year group:

Eagerarms1965-66. Francis Griffith is willing to assist in preparing a web site, and can be contacted here:

Eagerarms1968-69. For more information on this year group, contact Jim Rowell:

Eagerarms 1969-70. Ray ,Glen and George are willing to assist in preparing a web site and can be contacted as follows:

Eagerarms1970-71. For more information on this year group, contact John Jebanicki:

If you are interested in developing a web site for another "eagerarms" year group and wish to be listed above, contact Peter O’Sullivan:

Our objective is to record and document the history of Bravo Company from the summer of 1967 to the summer of 1968, to present a collection of photographs taken by members of the unit during this period, to develop a complete roster of troopers who served with the unit during this period, and to provide a means for former buddies and colleagues to contact each other. The following represents a working draft and we hope to receive input (corrections, additions etc) from those of you who served in Bravo Company during the period of the summer of 1967 to the summer of 1968.

For those who served in Bravo Company during this period (summer 67 – summer 68) and who wish to have their email address distributed to other members by an email roster, please provide full name and email address to Peter O’Sullivan.

We need some IT experts to help with, among other things, sorting and posting the many photographs that we have of Bravo Company members.
Contact Peter O’Sullivan at

Acknowledgements and a special thanks from the troopers of Bravo Company (1967-68), 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) to:

Martin Brauer for his diligence in producing this outstanding website for us.
Sven Gerlith for his expertise in preparing the excellent maps and photographs.
Colonel Raymond Bluhm (A/2/8 Cav '67) for his professional advise and proofreading the historical text.

TROOP LIFT BONG SON 1967

Thanks to 1st Cav Div Assn

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