Veterans Spotlight — US Army Private Bob Smith

Bob Smith served his country with bravery in the US Army from 1968 to 1970 as a private in the Vietnam War.
Private Smith grew up in Abington and went to basic training at Fort Polk, Louisiana, where he endured the rigorous training that would prepare him for the jungles of Southeast Asia. Private Smith was sent to Vietnam in May 1968.
“We flew to Ben Wah in the middle of the night. I was assigned to a company of infantry-trained soldiers which was part of the 1st Cavalry Division,” he remembered. “I was in Vietnam just a day and we got ambushed…hit and run…all the time, hit and run…the NVA [North Vietnamese Army] was relentless,” he recalled.

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