THE WALL OF FACES

You will forever remain in our hearts and prayers

Thank you for your service to our country so long ago sir. As long as you are remembered you will always be with us....

May those who served never be forgotten. Rest in peace SP5. Betts, I salute your brave soul. My heart goes out to you and your family.

Specialist Five Albert Leon Betts, Served with the 545th Signal Detachment, 362nd Signal Company, 37th Signal Battalion, 21st Signal Group, 1st Signal Brigade, United States Army Vietnam.

At about 4:00 PM on February 2, 1968, several 122mm enemy rockets slammed into Khe Sanh Combat Base in Quang Tri Province, RVN. One of the projectiles struck the bunker housing the U.S. Army’s 37th Signal Battalion Tropo Unit (Tropospheric scatter microwave radio), killing the Officer in Charge, 1LT Rodney A. Alfano, and three of his men: SP5 Albert L. Betts, SP4 Leon F. Huber, and SP4 Steven L. Raney. The Marines at Khe Sanh enjoyed a special relationship with these Army Signal types as 1LT Alfano was always eager to Army rations and anything else he had with them. One of the Marines who rushed to rescue any survivors was struck by what he saw when he arrived at the demolished bunker: Alfano’s hand sticking out of the red dirt with a wedding ring on. (Note: it is an uncanny fact that all three of the lost enlisted men had Leon as their first or middle name.) [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org and khesanh.org]