More detail on this person: I believe his first
tour was as a Staff Sgt SS 1964-65.We passed
each other. I was comming out and he was going in
up north. (Never forgave me for being first)
Second tour was with the 422 Aviation Bn out of
Camp Evans in 1968. He was a pilot then and
picked me up at Con Tien. His third tour was as a
Company Cmdr 1st Air Cav if I remember right. Got
shot up pretty bad that tour.
He was a SSgt a WO and a Capt three tours.
Interesting! He was a soldiers soldier pretty
much. Just regret I couldn't talk him in to the
Marines. :-)
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I was a Flight Operations Specialist wth C CO.
227th AHB when Ed came into the company Nov.
67.
He was with them till Nov 68 as far as i know. I
would run into him occasionaly since we both lived
in Hopkinsville, Ky. He was a WO at that time. I
do not know what the 422 AHB
was. Ed was definitly a soldiers soldier. He was
serving his third tour in VN when i discovered his
family was living about 4 blocks away from me.
From: Larry Lizotte
Ed Detuncq served his third tour with the 1st Cav
Div. He was operations officer with the 11th
Combat. Avn Group. Mid tour he requested a
company command assignment and commanded C
Co. 1st 8th Cav. His unit came under fire and he
repositioned forward to direct his response force.
An RPG round detonated close to him and he was
wounded and evacuated. He was Yellow 1 on his
second tour with the 227th Avn Bn. Later at Ft
Campbell he was involved with the early
development of the 111th Avn Bn. Ed Detuncq set
the standard for leadership and professionalism.
After having served over 20 years on active duty
no one ever came close.
From: Chuck Gibbs