FORT CARSON, CO.

Veterans of the Battle of Soui Tre walk to a memorial ceremony on Fort Carson, Colo. while officers assigned to 2nd Battalion, 77th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division greet him, Mar. 18, 2022. The ceremony memorialized the 36 lives lost from 2nd Bn., 77th Field Artillery Reg. and 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment during the Battle of Soui Tre in Vietnam, Mar. 21, 1967. (U.S. Army photos by Maj. Jason Elmore)

(Pictured below) Lt. Col. Adam Ropelewski, left, commander of 2nd Battalion, 77th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Stryker Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, Mr. Paige Lanier, middle, and Lt. Col. Thomas Carroll, right, commander of 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, render honors at a memorial ceremony on Fort Carson, Colo., Mar. 18, 2022. The ceremony memorialized the 36 lives lost from 2nd Bn., 77th Field Artillery Reg. and 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment during the Battle of Soui Tre in Vietnam, Mar. 21, 1967.

Hello to all,

Hope this finds you in good health, it has been a rough go for many of us for quite a while.

The reunion planning has been difficult with so many uncertainties, covid, plane travels etc. Even the Elegante Hotel we were to stay at sold to an investor a couple weeks ago without notice!

We have found another hotel that can accommodate us and at the best reasonable rates. The reunion is still for March 17 - 22, 2022.

Hotel reservations can be called in now:
The Radisson Hotel
1645 North Newport Rd
Colorado Springs, Co   80916
719-597-7000
Use code:  Battle of Soui Tre

The room cost will be $147.67 per night, which includes tax. This price includes a complimentary continental breakfast 6-9am & use of their hospitality & banquet rooms. They have a restaurant which serves appetizers & drinks from 4-10pm.  They're working on getting the restaurant to open those hours with a full menu. The hotel shares the parking lot with The Airplane Restaurant (a fully intact 1953 Boeing KC-97 tanker plane). It has a full lunch & dinner menu, open11am-9pm 7 days a week.

The hotel has a 24-hour free shuttle to & from the Colorado Springs Airport, just call the front desk with your needs.

The Reunion registration fee is $80.00 per person, which pays for the banquet dinner, cost for tour & transportation to the WW2 airplane museum guided tour, snacks & incidentals.

There will be 55th anniversary commemorative shirts! T-shirts, polo shirts & zip up hooded sweatshirts are available on a pre-order, pre-paid basis. We need to know what style & how many you want & sizes as the supply chain is questionable.  tees $20    polos $25    zip up hooded sweatshirts $45

Who would like to take the evening out to Cripple Creek, a historic gold mining town, now gambling casino town. It is still one of the world’s leading gold producing mines! We need to know how many would like to go so I can arrange transportation. Approximate times, leave town 5pm, return 11:30. It’s about an hour ride from Colorado Springs through beautiful scenery.

Ft Carson will have activities for us including the ceremony on the morning of the 21st to honor our fallen brothers. We'll tour Ft. Carson’s remodeled museum, visit the PX for pins, and have lunch with the troops.

We have several speakers at our evening events including past war vets, several of our own men from the different units on the ground at the battle, a couple of our commanders, a couple 911 first responders (as 911 is a parallel to the Pearl Harbor attack on America & what took our current soldiers to the middle east to fight the war on Global Terrorism).

Fort Carson commanders will also address us to what they are doing today.

As a special addition, we have a couple family of members of the men who got killed at the Battle & some wives of the recently deceased Suoi Tre vets that will attend also. We want to honor them & let them know they will always be a part of us.

This should be an enriching reunion to all.

Again, wives are encouraged to attend (you have been our support through our dark moments). All activities are geared to be interesting to husbands, wives & family you are invited to bring along.

Hotel reservations to be made / paid direct to Radisson Hotel

Registration Payments can be made & sent to Bill King (treasurer)  

For other questions, please contact:

Bill King
C/2/22 1967
719-748-8219 home
719-494-3590 cell
billkingsouitre@aol.com

Paige Lanier
FO/2/77
719-330-6638 cell
paigermm@msn.com

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Battle of Soui Tre March 21, 2022

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