101 airborne combat patch
ALPHA ORIGINALS
101st Airborne Division
Vietnam 1967 - 1968
Nam Fact:
The average infantryman in the South Pacific during World War II
saw about
40 days of combat in four years.
The average infantryman in South Vietnam
saw about
240 days of combat in one year due to the mobility of the helicopter.
I Corp or Military Region 1 and Thua Thien Province
was where the majority of the division spent the latter part of 1967 to early 1972.

I Corp consisted of Quang Tri Province,
as it’s most northern area of responsibility
then Thua Thien, Quang Nam, Quang Tin, and finally Quang Ngai Province.