PFC Cockfield rushed into the street, picked up the driver and carried him back into the compound to the quarters of civilian nurses who treated him for his injuries before he was removed to a hospital. Meanwhile, SP/4 Eugene M. Smith had spotted an ARVN Lieutenant laying in the street near the jeep and he went outside the compound to get him. He made it safely back to the compound carrying the young Vietnamese officer.

SP/4 Eugene M. Smith indicates the location of the explosive charge placed by the Viet Cong in the ARVN jeep.

        Shortly after the incident occurred, Vietnamese National Police arrested eight Viet Cong (VC) in downtown Quang Ngai, and one of them, a fourteen-year-old boy, admitted to having planted the charge in the jeep.

        In another VC bombing incident some time later, the two MP's were on patrol in the city when they came on the scene of a terrible explosion that left two Vietnamese children lying unconscious and face down on the ground with extremely severe wounds. After supplying initial first aid on the scene, they radioed for help.

        "Just then a van came down the street and we stopped it and loaded the two kids in to take them to the hospital," SP/4 Smith said. Before we could get going, a Vietnamese woman came up carrying a little girl who had also been hurt in the explosion, apparently in a building close by. We took all three of them to the hospital."

        Mr. Steve Rimmer, Public Safety Advisor or Quang Ngai Province, has officially commended the military policemen of the 146th in a letter sent to the commanding officer of the 504th MP Battalion and the Provost Marshal of the Americal Division.

Edited by the History Project Manager from Article and photograph appearing in the MP Journal.