D Company
11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
1966 - 1972

This web is dedicated to the troopers who served with D company 1/11 Armored Cavalry Regiment (the Blackhorse) in Vietnam. The company consisted of about ninety men assigned to three platoons each equipped with five M48-A2C or M48-A3 tanks, and a headquarters platoon with two more tanks, an M88 tank recovery vehicle, and a number of M113-A1 personnel carriers. To make this web serve the needs of the D Company veterans, I need your help. Please contact me at david.avery@dartmouth.edu with stories, poems, photos and contact addresses that I can add to this page.
D company Reunion:
Just wanted to remind everyone to begin making your reservation's for our reunion in June. It will be here before you know it, and I wanted to send the info again to everyone in case some one has misplaced it. The reunion will be at the Holiday Inn Airport South, 2715 Fern Valley Road, Louisville Kentucky. The dates are June 25th, 26th and 27th with most people leaving Sunday the 28th. I'll be arriving on Wednesday the 24th, to start setting it up, so If anyone want's to come early, feel free to do so. The best rate that I could get is $72.00 plus tax and that rate is good all week. Telephone number is 502-964-3311 be sure and ask for the D company reunion rate. There is a toll free number 1- 888- 465- 4329 but I would advise against using it because most of the people that used it had problems with their reservations. For those of you that fly in, the hotel has a free airport shuttle service, and you that drive, parking is free,
For those who did not attend last year, we had an auction on Friday Night, as we auctioned off several items that people brought. We raised $640.00 that will be used this year to buy food and drinks. We are going to do the auction again this year so everyone bring something to auction off. It does't have to be expensive, in fact it shouldn't be expensive. This is just a fun way to raise money to be used at the next D company reunion. Chicken man (Charles Stewart) is our auctioneer and he does a great job. It looks like we're going to have a big turnout this year, and I'm looking forward to seeing you there. I know I don't have everyone's e-mail address so if there are other D company men that you know of please let them know.
For those of you that are going to be at our reunion you need to e-mail Brenner Sayers and give him your T shirt size as he is giving everyone a shirt again this year.
E-mail him at brennersayers@sbcglobal.net
The M48-A3 in several variants was the primary fighting vehicle used by D company. To learn more about it, click here. Bill Harponski is writing a book about D company and the the 1/4 Cav during Atlas Wedge. Click to read an excerpt.
History of the Blackhorse Regiment
My friend Mike Phillips served with MAC/CORDS in Vietnam and after thirty years returned to Vietnam for a visit last summer. Although Vietnamese today remember it as "The American War," a small man Mike met on a Mekong River ferry at My Tho summed up the attitude of many Vietnamese. "The Americans were the only army that came to help us," he said. "You fought for an ideal. You were wrong. But everyone else fought for profit."
| The 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment links: | |
| Veterans of Vietnam & Cambodia 1968-1972 | The Blackhorse Association |
| The Border Legion 1973-1994 | Other Blackhorse Troops and attached units |
| The Blackhorse Regiment 1995-today | History of the Regiment 1902-today |
| Bibliography |
This 11th Cav
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