Life got a little easier after that first fire fight. We were assigned to bridge security on Highway 4. Highway 4 ran from An Khe to Plekui. In April 1970, our company moved to An Khe. At Pleiku we slept in under ground bunkers or on the ground. When we got to An Khe we had a large tent and cots and showers. Of course we weren’t there all the time, but it was nice to have a place to go to when we would come in out of the field. We would space ourselves several hundred yards apart about 50 yards off the road facing away from the highway. It was our responsibility to protect the highway so that supply trucks, etc could safely travel the highway. Then at night there was no travel on the highway so we would park on all four corners of the bridges. If the bridges weren’t protected the Viet Cong would blow them up to impede travel.
This was pretty good duty because just being there was enough to keep the highway safe. We would usually do road security between other missions.
