
By Andy O’Meara GCC/Staff Sept. 7, 2010 When I joined the Blackhorse Regiment in 1968, we fought day and night. We observed no holidays, which passed unnoticed in the struggle to halt the flow of communist troops, supplies and units moving into South Vietnam. The demands on the unit were many. I directed the reconnaissance [...]

By Andy O’Meara GCC/Staff August 30, 2010 We knew the Regiment as the Blackhorse Regiment for the single black horse that was the unit symbol. It decorated the sides of our track vehicles and aircraft as well as being the shoulder patch worn by each Blackhorse Trooper. Prisoners we captured told us that they were [...]
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By Andy O’Meara GCC/Staff August 18, 2010 I awoke in pain. I was in the Hospital at Long Binh, South Vietnam. The year was 1969. I had been wounded in an initial engagement to halt a large Communist offensive known as the Tet II Offensive. The North Vietnamese launched the Tet II Offensive just prior [...]