I started out on night convoys to Xuan Loc with Jimmy Poe [SP/4 James Walker Poe, Jr.] Jimmy was crew chief of Big Bertha (V100 Commando Armored Car). We then switched to the Tay Ninh convoy (days).

     I believe it was in December 1967 and we were leading the main convoy up to Cu Chi to pick up the remainder of the trucks up there; we always left Long Binh around 0300 hours [3:00 AM], so we didn't get to Cu Chi until daybreak. It was somewhere between Cholon and Cu Chi that we found a scarecrow; right in the middle of the road in our head lights; it was still pitch black and very eerie. I suspected an ambush, but Jim dismounted anyway and went up to check it out; I was also sure that it was booby-trapped, but luckily it wasn't. I don't recall how we actually checked it out, but we must have thrown a line of some sort around it and gave it a tug with Big Bertha. I do recall that I recovered the scarecrow and brought it back to Long Binh as a souvenir.

SGT Steve W. Senkovich (LTC Retired), A Company, 720th MP Battalion, 89th MP Group, 18th MP Brigade, August 1967 to October 1968.