This is Jockel Podcast number 289.

As the seals from Zulu platoon insert into a rice paddy near where they had taken fire,

Nelson's Huey, a UH-1 Bravo gunship, commenced a right turn at 80 feet above the ground to cover them.

Lieutenant Junior Grade, Carl Nelson, a fire team leader at Hal 3, Detachment 1,

commanded two sea wolf gunships during Zulu's last mission. He already had flown more than

600 combat missions. His co-pilot, Lieutenant Junior Grade, Earl Schout, controlled the M-134

mini guns while petty officers Michael Dobson and Tom Klaivon fired the left and right,

respectively M-60 machine guns from the doors. Lieutenant Junior Grade, Edward Dyer,

would pilot the Huey UH-1 Lima Sea Lord transport that would insert and later extract Zulu from a

very hot landing zone. Schout worked the LZ's edge with his mini guns while Dobson and Klaivon fired

their M-60s. The seals patrolled northeast and then east on a dike separating two rice paddies

and then moved north to one perpendicular to the first. As they advanced, the enemy began firing

from well concealed in dug-in positions on a dike covered with heavy vegetation. The seals and

Nelson's gunship immediately returned fire. As the patrol continued closer toward the treeline,

the seals took accurate withering fire from both sides of the dike. Point man, Roland fell,

shot through the groin. He was hit again as he crawled for cover. Seconds later,

Telfer was shot in both legs. Both seals managed to return fire despite their wounds, but the

severity of their injuries and the immediate necessity to extract them soon took them out of action.

Lieutenant J.G. Richards immediately radioed Nelson for fire support as he in Lawrence advanced

under fire to assist the two seriously wounded seals. Chris and the Hulk by his fellow seals,

Lieutenant J.G. Tom Richards was well liked and respected and he enjoyed a reputation as a highly

capable operator. He was a native of Bright Waters, New York and a graduate of Bay Shore High School

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