Pleiku was located on the West side of Viet Nam in the Central Highland region. Pleiku was right along the Cambodian border. Cambodia was sort of a safe haven for the NVA. They would come across the border and attack and then go back to their safe haven. In April 1970 the United States started bombing Cambodia. We were scheduled to invade on the ground. As we approached the border we were stopped. We were stopped for about 3 hours and eventually pulled back to base camp. We found out later that because of political pressure President Nixon was forced to call off the attack on Cambodia. We were disappointed because we felt that attacking the NVA in their safe haven would have been effective. Shortly after that event we turned the Pleiku base camp over to the Vietnamese as part of the “Vietnamazation” and moved our headquarters to An Khe, Vietnamazation was supposed to be the begfinning of the US Troop withdrawal.
