During the week, a total of 97 enemy soldiers were killed by Cav units.

Much of the division's activity was in response to numerous ground-to-air firings, often incurred while flying support for ARVN contacts. In addition to the frequent anti-aircraft firings, every firebase in War Zone C was subjected to some sort of indirect fire attack but damage and losses were light.

In providing helicopter support for an ARVN Airborne contact 19 miles north of Tay Ninh City, Jan. 24, between firebases Sandra and Carolyn, the Cav employed mass Formations of Blue Max Cobras from Battery A, 2nd Battalion, 20th Artillery in the attack. Fifty sorties were run, with as many as six of the ARA-firing Cobras flying abreast, firing simultaneously.

Remarked the battalion S-3, Captain Frank Kraxner, "That re-arm pad looked like an Indy pit stop." Darkness fell and the combatants broke contact, preventing an assessment of enemy losses.

The following day, Jan. 25, a platoon of Cavalrymen moving through the jungle 11 miles east of Song Be in the 2nd Brigade AO ran into a platoon of NVA. The Skytroopers, from the 3rd platoon of Delta Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry laced the enemy element with their organic weapons while ducking enemy small arms, machinegun and B-40 rocket fire that came whistling back through the thick brush. Artillery and Cav helicopters poured explosives at the enemy position and the NVA broke contact and fled after 45 minutes. An Assessment of the mid-day engagement found ten enemy soldiers dead, all dressed in green fatigues and wearing steel pots.

Before dawn on the same day, over War Zone C, a Nighthawk helicopter and Cobra gunships from Companies C and D, 229th Assault Helicopter Battalion, were brought under heavy .51 caliber fire while they flew support for a 1st Cav company in contact below.

The birds' crews spotted the enemy firing position immediately and blasted it into silence. The gun was destroyed and nine NVA were killed.

The Skytroopers on the ground, from Alpha Company, 2nd of the 5th, withstood two night attacks on their NDP 20 miles northeast of Tay Ninh City. One of the attacks was by mortars and hand grenades and the other by small arms.

Later in the day, at 4 p.m., just north of that location, LOHs from the Cav's 1st Brigade were greeted by heavy .51 caliber machinegun fire. The small birds called on ARA-firing Cobras of Battery A, 2nd of the 20th Artillery to eliminate the big machineguns. A short time later, two enemy heavy machineguns lay smoking and useless, their crews scattered. 

On Jan. 26, in northern Phuoc Long province 18 miles east of Bu Dop, helicopter-borne Cavalrymen from Bravo Troop, 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry killed three NVA and put a snag in the enemy food supply system by depriving it of a total of 8480 pounds of rice.

The rice was discovered in several different locations in the same general area, stacked in 220-pound sacks. The Blues were inserted to conduct reconnaissance and found a portion of the rice, the rest discovered by low-flying helicopters. Scattered resistance resulted in the three NVA killed. In addition, eight bicycles, hastliy left at trail-side, were destroyed.

Responding to scattered ground-to-air firing on Jan. 29 around an ARVN Airborne contact five miles from FSB Vicky northeast of Tay Ninh City, helicopters from Troop A, 1st of the 9th killed eight NVA in three afternoon contacts.