S-2 was the intelligence section. Scouts were attached to S-2. According to Ron Davenport(Stix), prior to May/June '67, scouts were attached to S-3. Scouts were like utility infielder's for the battalion. They would run patrols from the battalion, accompany rifle companies to handle detainees, and any other 'special projects' that came up.
MEMORIALS
S-2 duties:
"...consisted of the daily intelligence summary, or I-Sum, a kind of daily diary of the battalion's activities prepared every morning from the reams of field reports, agent reports, weather surveys and other material that had accumulated during the previous twenty-four hours, the nightly plotting of artillery targets for harassment and interdiction fire, the preparation of intelligence estimates and terrain studies on an as-needed basis, the handling of prisoners and captured material sent in from the field, and an assortment of miscellaneous duties loosely classified under the heading of intelligence".
The above paragraph comes from the book, Vietnam-Perkasie, A Combat Marine Memoir, written by W. D. Ehrhart. It's about his experiences while he was with 1/1 from February, '67 to February, '68. It's a good read. Made me glad I was there in '69, not '67. He read about the chocolate chip cookies from this book at the 1999 Reunion in Detroit.
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Battalion Scouts, August, 1966. From Left to Right, top to bottom: Jim Sowell, Nelson, Smay, 1st Lt. Keely (S-2 Officer), SSgt. Rawley (Chief Scout), Atkinson, Vernon, Lawler, Paskoshi - photo from Jim Sowell |
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Jim Sowell in front of Scouts hooch. - photo from Jim Sowell |
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1966 S-2 Chief Sgt Ward and Command Bunker - photo from Jim Sowell |
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One of the VC that I captured on operation "Lafayette" - photo from Jim Sowell |
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W. D. Ehrhart, Intelligence Assistant Aug 67 |
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Scouts, my team plus S/Sgt. Ward. Standing (l to r): Me, Bob Headrick, Stickler or Strickland, Unknown, and Ward. Kneeling (l to r): Wallace and Unknown. The time frame was last of July or very first of August ‘67. -photo from Ron Davenport(Stix) |
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Mike Lawler in front of a Tippsey 21 |
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I was chief scout for 1/1 after they came down to the SE side of DaNang in ‘69. -photo from Bill Boyd |
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Lt. Ahearn & Gunny Goodelle, they were the S-2 for 1/1. -photo from Bill Boyd |
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LtCol LaPorte being given a hand up a slippery dike on a Bn Op -photo from Bill Boyd |
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I left 1/1 in April '69. I think the position was Phoung Loc 2. I tried to bring back my patrol map, but they found and confiscated it. Following pictures are of some of the scouts & others. I'm the one with the pipe & getting the finger from LCpl Gilbert. -photo from Bill Boyd |
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PFC or LCpl Clark -photo from Bill Boyd |
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Cpl Chad Stedman and LCpl Gilbert -photo from Bill Boyd |
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LCpl Gilbert reading by candle light. -photo from Bill Boyd |
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PFC Dykehouse is shaving behind S-2 hooch at LZ412 -photo from Bill Boyd |
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LCpl Rod True from Middletown Ohio. -photo from Bill Boyd |
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Sgt Wade Lewis |
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Two Scouts on Ganoi Island some time in early' 69. LCpl Jack Cook on the left and LCpl Leija (Poncho) on the right - photo by Chad Stedman |
