She's a small-town girl in a luxe new world. And life in the lingerie business is full of surprises. Tootie is modeled after the stereotypical 'fangirl' in the way she acts, especially toward Timmy. She has a room full of store-bought Timmy merchandise and often. Torchy’s Tacos has been keeping Austinites fed since 2004. Back then, they had little more than a trailer and some taco fixings. Now, Torchy’s has opened. Robot Check. Enter the characters you see below. Sorry, we just need to make sure you're not a robot. For best results, please make sure your browser is accepting cookies. All wars contain acts of heroism that go unnoticed by the public; that is especially true if the war is unpopular. That does not, however, lessen the valor of the men who fight those battles. In August 1. 96. 8, a battle took place at a small remote Special Forces camp forty- two miles from Ban Me Thuot near the Cambodian border. Not many Americans have heard of the Battle of Duc Lap or the story of the men who fought so valiantly to survive it and to save each other. It is the modern day equivalent to the Battle of the Alamo, only with a better outcome, barely. The Duc Lap Civilian Irregular Defense Group (CIDG) Camp (known as A- 2. Ho Chi Minh Trail in Cambodia and Laos into South Vietnam. The remote outpost was authorized some 6. Montagnard soldiers, along with their families, eleven South Vietnamese Special Forces (LLDB) soldiers, and a ten- man detachment of U. S. Special Forces advisors. It also included three members of ASA. James Alward, and Spc. Fairly Secret Army (a Titles & Air Dates Guide) Last updated: Fri, 7:00 aired from: Oct 1984 to: Oct 1986 cancelled/ended: 13 eps: Channel 4 (UK). Fairly Secret Army; Genre: Sitcom: Directed by: Roy Ward Baker: Starring: Geoffrey Palmer Michael Robbins Liz Fraser Jeremy Child Diane Fletcher: Country of origin. Watch free 600 Free Live TV Channels. See 45000 Complimentary movies TV shows and documentaries. Record Local TV zero cost. View Horror Movies at no charge! Jorgen as he appears in Grow Up, Timmy Turner! Jorgen Von Strangle appears in the live-action movie 'A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner! Donald Childs. All three soldiers were Special Forces- qualified, in addition to their ASA training as Morse intercept operators, and Alward, who was TDY from the 4. SOD in Okinawa, was also a Thai linguist. As with all of ASA. That would seem to have been difficult within such a confined and close knit group as the small Special Forces contingent assigned to A- 2. Jim Alward says it was not a problem. There were four eight by eight steel conex boxes linked together with a walkway and buried under fifteen or twenty feet of logs and dirt. Danny Hall and I lived in the first box; the second box was used as a store room for medical supplies; Don Childs lived in the third box and the fourth one was our . All of that was above my pay grade anyway. Danny Hall had a reel- to- reel tape recorder and a couple of music tapes. When I hear that song, I will always think of mud and incoming. They had passed that information up the line to NSA, but the traffic was all encrypted Morse. They had no way of knowing what information it contained or the significance of it. They forwarded the mass of raw data through the usual channels for others to analyze. William Harp, the Special Forces A- Team commander at Duc Lap. Half his available team was on duty, while the rest were sleeping in well- fortified bunkers deep within their hilltop compound. Ted Boody was the NCOIC and writing a letter to his wife; radioman Sgt. Mike Dooley, a talented cartoonist was drawing pictures to send to his five- year- old son back home in California. The other team members had been playing cards or reading. They heard the dull rumbles too, like far- off thunder, and knew that a mortar attack was taking place somewhere in the distance. Opening the reinforced door of their team house, they saw flashes of light off to the west toward subsector headquarters. It was Friday, 2. August 1. 96. 8. Don Childs, Danny Hall, Jim Alward and team medic, Sgt. Daniel Shepherd were among those sleeping when the alarm was sounded. The men dressed quickly and headed to join the rest of the Green Berets in the team house. A message was coming in from Duc Lap subsector headquarters. They were under heavy attack and needed help. Team Sergeant Boody put in a call to B- Team HQ at Ban Me Thuot to inform them of the attack, and the rest of the team headed for their assigned defensive positions. Jim Alward crouched low in the first 8. CIDG helpers were. Class Howard Blair, a light weapons expert and one of the older members of the team, was assigned to the second 8. Class Harold Kline, a radio op who was TDY from Det. B- 5. 7 (Project Gamma) in Nha Trang, was manning the third position. Kneeling beside him was Don Childs, the . The sound of automatic weapons and small arms fire split the night air, and the Special Forces team members could see the flashes of enemy guns in the distance. Two Montagnard helpers climbed into pit number one beside Alward and began to hand him rounds. It looked like it was going to be another long night. Childs and Kline were firing a constant stream of anti- personnel rounds to the north and east, while Danny Hall and Sgt. Roland Vas were on the 4. Montagnard troops who were manning the trenches around the perimeters of the camp. Mike Dooley was at his usual position in the 5. The attack intensified, and B- 4. The 8. 1mm teams were firing about twenty to thirty rounds- per- minute, and continued firing until their mortar barrels overheated. They quickly cooled the weapons with water and began to fire again, a procedure that was repeated for over two hours. Spooky had been overhead almost from the beginning. The NVA were terrified of them, and with good reason; they could decimate a large force in one slow pass. When the Spooky pilot returned to his base at Pleiku, he wrote the following account: . Harp assumed that the VC or NVA had a company of 1. A- 2. 39 to prevent them from sending help to district headquarters. Bao, the LLDB (ARVN Special Forces) commander, and they decided to send out the CIDG recon platoon at first light to sweep the local village for enemy activity. If all was clear, they would attempt to get a relief force through to the district compound. The team did not expect A- 2. Boody sent a message to Ban Me Thuot informing them that enemy contact had broken off at 0. Three Montagnards and one dependent had been wounded. That would be the last direct message A- 2. At 0. 60. 0, the Montagnard recon team headed out through the main gate to sweep the village. Suddenly, rockets and mortars exploded on both hills of the camp, and the recon soldiers began to pour back through the gate, running for the safety of the fortified compound. On top of the main hill, a mortar exploded near Sgt. Vas, and he fell to the ground bleeding profusely. A second round struck a short distance from Sgt. Blair, knocking him down. Dazed by the blast, but not seriously injured, Blair crawled to his feet. Realizing that Vas was badly hurt, he began to drag the wounded sergeant toward the medical bunker and called for help. Anthony Ayers, the team executive officer, ran to help with rounds bursting all around. Another mortar round exploded nearby, and a fragment struck Ayers in the jaw. Now there were two casualties. Boody came on the run, got the wounded men down into the bunker and placed a tourniquet on Vas. A vein had been hit, and there was blood everywhere. Vas was in serious condition; Lt. Ayers had a deep facial wound, and his uniform was soaked with blood. Both men needed medical attention immediately. Shep Shepherd was near the camp dispensary by the main gate when the new attack began. Boody called him on the radio and told him to hurry to the medical bunker. Shepherd crouched behind some sandbags for a moment to see if the barrage would stop, but knew he needed to get to Vas. Cutting away from the road, he made his way down to the motor pool and along a protective trench behind the storage building. Suddenly he stopped when he spied the men from the CIDG recon patrol huddled in a group and hiding their heads in their hands. Shepherd, who was small and blonde, and was teased by his team- mates as . He strode over to the cowering lot, physically picked each man up and threw him into the defensive trench. He inserted an IV and bandaged Vas. Ayers, with a huge bandage on his jaw, was soon back out on the 1. Sgt. Boody was loading for him. Harp was trying to contact Ban Me Thuot, but to no avail. He could hear them, but he could not answer back. The mortar barrage that had injured Vas and Ayers had also destroyed their antenna. Outside, mortars and rockets continued to pound the camp, and small arms fire poured in from the brush and overgrown fields to the north. There was no further discussion of sending a relief squad to the district compound. The Special Forces team had their hands full at A- 2. When the camp was attacked, it was nowhere near full- strength. It had a total of twelve Green Berets, including the three ASA ops, six LLDB soldiers, a CIDG Combat Reconnaissance Platoon with thirty- five soldiers, seventeen Montagnard . That was a total of 2. The remainder of their forces, including most of 3rd and 4th companies and their Green Beret advisors were out on normal patrol duties along the Cambodian border. Most of the Montagnards also had their families living with them inside caves and bunkers that had been dug within the trench lines that guarded the hills. The Special Forces team had no way of knowing that by daybreak, A- 2. VC or NVA company, but by the North Vietnamese Army. With its various support units, the combined enemy force in the Duc Lap area totaled some 4,0.
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