Redcatchers of the 199th continued reconnaissance operations Wednesday with action reported as light.

Activities during the day produced seven VC KIA and an ammunition cache.

A recon patrol from "B" Company, 4th Battalion, 12th Infantry, took one sampan with four VC under fire in a pineapple grove southwest of Saigon. The action resulted in four VC killed in action and one sampan destroyed.

Early Wednesday morning elements of the 51st Infantry (LRP) came in contact with two VC, who retreated and brought back an additional six VC. The results of the contact were two VC KIA in marshes northeast of Saigon. There were no US casualties.

Later in the day, another team from the 51st LRP contacted an estimated enemy squad shortly before dark. One VC was killed in the action in a densely wooded area northeast of Saigon.

"Old Guard" troops from "D" Company, found 200 rounds of mortar rounds, and 25 57mm recoilless rifle rounds in a sweep of river regions northeast of Saigon on Wednesday.

30 May 68

Elements of the 199th’s 4th Batalion, 12th Infantry, under the operational control of the 25th Infantry, killed four VC in a four-hour firefight five miles west of Saigon. Prior to the engagement, the infantrymen killed a VC sniper In the same area.

Helicopter gunship crews of the 3d Squadron, 17th Air Cav reported two enemy soldiers 11 miles west-northwest of Saigon. while flying armed aerial reconnaissance missions. They also reported killing one VC 26 miles northwest of Saigon.

199th infantrymen discovered an enemy cache containing four 122mm rockets and one 107mm rockets. The cache was located 10 miles northeast of Tan Uyen.

31 May 68

Action was light Friday for the 199th an one unit of the brigade continued a sporadic firefight that began 30 May.

On Thursday, the 4th Battalion, 12th Infantry contacted an unknown-sized enemy force southwest of Saigon resulting in six VC KIA.

As the action continued Friday, the Redcatcher unit acted as a blocking force for the 3d Battalion, 22d Infantry, 25th Infantry Division, killing five additional VC and detaining two suspects. Two AK-47s and two heavy machineguns were capture in the action. In the two days of action there were three US killed and 13 wounded.

In the only other action in the brigade, a team from the 51st LRP came in contact with an unknown number of enemy resulting in two US wounded. VC losses are unknown.

2 June 68

Redcatchers of the 199th met sporadic contact during recon operations around the capitol city of Saigon Sunday.

As the week drew to a close, elements of the 199th killed 36 enemy and found and destroyed enemy fortifications an Sunday.

As infantrymen from "B" Company, 5th Battalion, 12th Infantry swept through regions northeast of Saigon, they contacted an enemy force entrenched in a bunker complex, The Redcatchers ferreted out the enemy soldiers, killing 14. Three US troops were killed and six wounded in the action.

During the day, "B" Company elements also uncovered trench fortifications and found 200 pounds of CS gas in an enemy cache.

Troops from the 199th's 5th Battalion, 12th Infantry found and destroyed 74 bunkers, 18 hand grenades, 10 fighting positions, and five military structures.

Shortly after noon, a company reconnaissance patrol from 4th Battalion, 12th Infantry, engaged an enemy company-sized unit in a firefight five miles southwest of Saigon. As the action continued, the enemy fired small arms and automatic weapons. US elements killed 15 enemy. One US soldier was killed and six wounded in the action.

Another Redcatcher company supporting their sister element killed an additional six VC. Two US were killed and one wounded in the action.

Sunday, a team from the 51st LRP contacted an unknown-size enemy force shortly before dark. When the contact was broken, one VC was killed. Captured equipment included one SKS rifle, one rucksack, and one claymore mine.

Supporting airstrikes by "A" Troop, 3d Squadron, 17th Air Cavalry destroyed one bunker and one military structure northeast of Saigon.

3 June 68

Redcatchers of the 199th killed four Viet Cong, detained one suspect, captured nine weapons and destroyed several battalion-sized base camp during recon-in-force operations on Monday.

Infantrymen of "B" Company, 5th Battalion, 12th Infantry, commanded by CPT Kent F. Miller of Madera, Calif., discovered 47 well-fortified enemy bunkers 33 miles northeast of Saigon. Supporting B-52 airstrikes destroyed 16 mult-squad size bunkers, 35 bunkers were heavily damaged and 25 fighting positions were also destroyed. While searching the basecamps. Bravo company captured ones Chicom machinegun, three AK-47 rifles, 777 AK-47 rounds, seven AK-47 magazines, one 82mm mortar sight, one box of spare machinegun parts, three RPG rounds, one 82mm round, seven B-40 rocket boosters, two fragmentation grenades, eight rocket fuses, two B-40 rounds, one concussion grenade, six 75mm recoilless rifle rounds, and numerous medical, clothing and cooking supplies.

"C" Company, 5th Battalion, 12th Infantry, commanded by CPT Ronald K. Wishart of Union N.J., found two Viet Cong bodies and also detained one suspect who was also suffering from malaria.

Recon choppers of "A" Troop, 17th Air Cav, spotted and engaged three Viet Cong approximately 41 miles northeast of Saigon. One VC was KIA and one sampan destroyed in that action.