Edward C. Ziobron; 170th Assault Helicopter Company (AHC) ; 25 November 1970 to 29 November 1970 ; AA gun battery ; AC-130 “Spectre” gunship ; Achilles tendon ; After Action Review ; AHC ; AK-47 ; ammunition ; anti-aircraft site eradication ; Attopeu Province, Laos ; Battle Analysis ; Bean ; Ben Het ; Bikini ; Black Ops ; booby traps ; bouncing betty’s ; C-4 explosives ; Cambodia ; CAR-15 ; chemical munitions ; Chinese ; clandestine ; CLASSIFIED ; claymores ; Cobra Gunships ; Combat Stress ; Conkin, ; Covey ; cross border operations ; cross the fence ; CS Gas ; Dak ; Dak To ; dead NVA regulars ; Demerol ; diversionary attacks ; doctrinal characteristics of the offense ; dust off ; Edward C. Ziobron ; enemy materiel destruction ; evacuation ; EXFIL helicopters ; extraction ; eye in the sky ; Gillespie ; Goldstein ; gunships ; hammocks with Chinese markings ; hand-to-hand ; Hatchet Company A, SOA(CCC), MACVSOG, 5th SFG(A), 1st SF, Kontum, Republic of Vietnam. ; Hatchet Platoon “Prairie Fire” operation ; helicopter ; Hlep ; Ho Chi Minh Trail Network ; Im Nei Ksor ; jungle ; KIA ; Killed in Action ; Kontum ; landing zone(LZ) ; Laos ; LEGHORN ; loose dried rice ; M-60 machine gun ; M-72 Light Anti-tank Weapons (LAWs) ; Medal of Honor ; medically evacuated ; Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, Special Operations Group (MACVSOG) ; MOH ; Montagnard Special Commando Unit (SCU) personnel ; Morphine ; National Guard ; Neil Thorne ; Nhet ; North Vietnamese (NVA) Regular force ; NVA ; Operations Switchback ; Plaster ; Pleiku ; POW camp ; POW repatriation ; prairie fire ; Pultro, CPT Joseph L. ; raised long house ; reactionary force ; Recon element ; reconnaissance element ; remnants of uniform material US Army helicopter pilots ; retrograde ; rice ; rocket ; Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG) ; Scalize, Serafino A. ; SCU Recon element ; secure voice radio ; severely wounded ; SFC Bean ; SGT Zaborowski ; Silver Star ; SOA(CCC) at Kontum ; Special Forces Qualification Course ; Special Forces Sergean ; Spectre ; stand ; Studies and Observations Group operations ; Sundance ; TAC Air ; thermite grenade ; Thorne ; toe poppers ; trail interdiction ; Turkoly-joczik ; upgraded ; Victor Charles ; wounds ; Zaborowski ;

Edward C. Ziobron, My four days in the Laos jungle.

Some may wonder why this site contains Ed Ziobron's story. Ed's story is here because it is a war story by the person who experienced it first hand, and because it is a story of outstanding courage, leadership, devotion to his fellow soldier, and to the USA! It really doesn't matter that it was Vietnam/Laos or that Ed was not 24th!

West Virginia National Guard pressing for Medal of Honor for Vietnam veteran

Battle Analysis

Personal Affidavit

Awarded the Distinguished Service Cross

The 24th Infantry Division Association

Founded August 1945 on a Philippine Island beach

Edward C. Ziobron, My four days in the Laos jungle.