10 Aug 2007 "SCOTTY" was his nickname. He was sent to C Company, 23rd Med Battalion to train as an OJT medic to be sent out in the field with F Troop. I was OJT also but been in country 6 months before Scotty. He asked everyone about the bush and seemed so excited to go. His day came a couple weeks after arriving. The Troop was hit hard and Medics were usually in the line of fire. Scotty was looking at slides I had taken while in the the bush when word came he had to go. He was so excited he left guickly with a pack and his M16, only saying "See ya" while at a near run. Next day I heard F Troop was hit with land mines and Scotty never knew what hit him. He died from concussion. I was there to pay my friend tribute by unloading his body from the medevac chopper "236 Dust off" and help Graves Registration place his body in the cooler. I volunteered that day to go out but they wouldn't let me cause I had a generator MOS also and was in charge of the hospital's generators. I wanted to do what Scotty did that day but he saved my life. Thank you, John E. Mitchell, for being my friend and fellow soldier! From a friend and fellow soldier, Sp4 William B Goforth 15850 Old Dayton Road, New Lebanon, Ohio 45345 goforth1953@netzero.com

 

A Note from The Virtual Wall Five men from the 196th Infantry Brigade were killed when their personnel carrier hit a mine on Route 533, 9 kilometers west-southwest ot Tam Khe. They were F Trp, 17th Cavalry 1LT David B. Miller, Lansing, MI SP4 Randall A. Carver, Three Oaks, MI SP4 William F. Emanuel, Shreveport, LA PFC James R. Merz, Royal Oak, MI C Co, 23rd Med Bn SP4 John E. S. Mitchell, American Falls, ID Visit John Dennison's Medics on the Wall memorial which honors the Army Medics and Navy Corpsmen who died in Vietnam.

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