A Week in Binh Long

[Jason Petho]

In its current form:

You start with three battalions of one brigade (the amount of battalions increases as the days go on through the campaign).

Each battalion (three combat companies) is assigned an area of operations that it must perform a "search and destroy" mission in. That will also involve building a firebase during the day at a designated location (basically build two trenches in the assigned area). In most cases, the combat portion of the battalion (plus their attached 105mm battery) will remain in their firebase overnight. 

Securing the Area of Operations will be to capture all the objectives in that area. Additionally, one will also be patrolling and performing search and destroy operations - if one has time, the areas are large. 

A supply run from one of the main bases (Loc Ninh, An Loc, or Chon Thanh) will have to be done every day to every firebase. The roads are generally terrible, so expect that to be a time consuming affair.

The next day will see them being assigned a new area of operation when the process will repeat. 

The scenario slowly builds up to a bad day, especially if your search and destroy missions were for naught. 

Of course, there's never enough of everything.