{"id":337,"date":"2020-04-09T22:12:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T22:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delta.blog.a227ahb.org\/?p=337"},"modified":"2020-04-09T22:12:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T22:12:19","slug":"history-of-d-227-after-the-1st-cav-left-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/delta.blog.a227ahb.org\/?p=337","title":{"rendered":"History of D\/227 after the 1st CAV left Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All the companies of the 227th AHB stayed in Vietnam after the 1st CAV returned stateside.  <\/p>\n<p>On 1 September 1970, E Troop, 1\/9th CAV was organized from D\/227. The troop was initially stationed at the same D\/227 base at Lai khe, then later moved to the 1st Cavalry Division headquarters at Phouc Vinh.<\/p>\n<p> Sometime before 24 February 1971 the unit was again redesigned, this time to the 227th Aerial Weapons Company and attached the 101st for Operation Lam Son 719 (February &#8211; March 1971) into Laos west of Khe Sanh.<\/p>\n<p>A book is now being written about Lam Son 719  &#8211; by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Undaunted-Valor-Assault-Helicopter-Vietnam\/dp\/1703382641\">Colonel Matt Jackson. \u201cUndaunted Valor: An Assault Helicopter Unit in Vietnam\u201d<\/a> &#8211; which will include information about the 227th Aerial Weapons Company involvement.  He is still researching information and would welcome any help from those who served in that operation.<\/p>\n<p>From the Author;<br \/>\n\u201cWorking on the third book. Lam Son 719. In my research I found that the 227th had participated in this operation. On 24 Feb at 2200 hours, the 227Aerial Weapons Company, formerly, Delta 227th joined the 101st. The need for AH-1G aircraft was so great that they pulled almost every AH-1 unit into the fight and got an emergency shipment of 25 AH-1Gs out of the states and flown over before the end of Feb. \u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the companies of the 227th AHB stayed in Vietnam after the 1st CAV returned stateside. On 1 September 1970, E Troop, 1\/9th CAV was organized from D\/227. The troop was initially stationed at the same D\/227 base at Lai khe, then later moved to the 1st Cavalry Division headquarters at Phouc Vinh. Sometime before&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/delta.blog.a227ahb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/delta.blog.a227ahb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/delta.blog.a227ahb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/delta.blog.a227ahb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/delta.blog.a227ahb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/delta.blog.a227ahb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"http:\/\/delta.blog.a227ahb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/delta.blog.a227ahb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/delta.blog.a227ahb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/delta.blog.a227ahb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}