In Country and On Line with the Light Infantry 1966-1970

199th LIB HISTORY PROJECT

To those of you who do not know the Redcatchers I would like to tell you a little about what this is. We (Bob Stanard and, since his death, my wife Paulette and I Larry McDougal) started working on the 199th history project in 1987. At the start we thought it would take five or six years to complete but it has taken a lot longer.

Our goal has been to track the 199th LIB from our first day to our last day in Vietnam. We would like to be able to tell you where your were, what you were doing, what the weather was for each day of each year the Brigade was there.

We have maps of our area of operation and know most of the names of our base camps and their locations. We have records from Nov. 66 to Oct. 70 on a daily basis. We have quarterly reports for the whole time that the unit was there. Not all of the records have been easy to find or get. Some records are not complete and some we can’t have at this time because they are still classified.

This contains some of our history on a month by month basis to try to give you an idea of what we want to be able to do when we are done. A big part of this is the 757 names that we know died in the war. At this time using Department of Defense data, While in most cases the date of death reflects the exact date on which the service members’ life was lost; this is not true in all cases. Some of those listed lost their lives days, weeks, and, in a few cases, years after the casualty date as a direct result of wounds incurred.

In Memory of: Bob Stanard                                                      Larry McDougal

May 18, 1948-March 27, 1998                                    history@redcatcher.org