Chapter 3: Their Innocence
Camp Carroll
10:30 AM
Absolute chaos.
The PAVN forces, although with some difficulty about some "deranged" claims from PAVN soldiers assaulting the forest north of the road of Camp Carroll about some "American teenage super soldiers" managed to completely break through, threatening the roads to Camp Carroll, and making the possibility of an encirclement more apparent.
The situation immediately deteriorated, American platoons rapidly evacuated the Northern flanks of Route 9 and Camp Carroll as they were surrounded by assaulting PAVN troops in the forest.
The 56th Regiment and 1st Marine Tank Battalion responded by defending the road, just as the rest of the 56th organized a hasty retreat from Camp Carroll.
Then Camp Mai Loc down south fell.
The retreat was less than stellar, as both American and ARVN troops broke in an almost disorganized retreat, with the artillery equipment in Camp Carroll being abandoned.
Now both the 1st Marine Regiment and the 56th are on a fighting retreat to Cam Lo up north on Route 9.
They hope to hold Cam Lo as it can be a part of a defensive line to hold them off from Dong Ha.
And on Cam Lo will be the Battle Weary Angel Company that was Air Lifted hours ago.
They are to fortify Cam Lo as the 56th and 1st Marine Regiment retreats towards it.
The line must Hold.
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Near Route 9
UH-1 Helicopter, En Route to Cam Lo
Angel Company, 1st Marine Battalion
April 2, 1972 - 10:55 AM
"Welp, this is bad," Serika who was staring at the horizon inside of the helicopter was snapped out from her stupor.
One of the marines, the one holding a peculiarly outdated radio spoke in calm annoyance at something.
"Sarge, new orders from HQ, looks like we're gonna be fighting again in Cam Lo."
This got the attention of all Marines inside, while Serika and Shiroko decided to simply stay silent.
"Waddya mean Jimmy boy?" Alex asked in an irritated tone, "We literally just got out of a firefight!"
"The situation is absolute FUBAR, apparently when we retreated the frontlines defending Route 9 already broke down."
"No wonder we didn't get much reinforcements," Jordan mused.
"Yeah no shit, we we're all so deep in that one, without these girls we would have been all toast," Mike said before looking back at both Serika and Shiroko, who still had no idea at what really is happening.
"Anyways, they said Camp Carroll was in threat of encirclement, while Mai Loc down south fell too. So now the defenders there broke. Fortunately, they didn't get encircled, unfortunately now they're in a desperate fighting retreat back to Cam Lo, which is where we are landing, " Jimmy finished in a calm tone.
"So they want us to help defend Cam Lo?" Jordan asked.
"Right on the money sarge, orders said we gotta dig in and defend it, at least until the 56th and the rest of the 1st reaches it, or the PAVN stops," Jimmy explained.
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