Sergeant First Class Fred Steen served in Vietnam with the Infantry Rifle Company, Black Knight Alfa, also known as The Dragon Slayers. Tough, well-disciplined and unpredictable, Black Knight Alfa were so feared that the NVA and Vietcong warned their own soldiers against engaging them in combat. In the A Shau valley these American soldiers all had prices on their heads.
This is the story of war at its toughest, of a normal American fighting unit, ‘mean as junkyard dogs’, fighting against all the odds and winning. Victory was truly theirs.
Sergeant First Class Fred Steen remembers the men of Black Knight Alfa and the fields of battle, he remembers their courage, grit and determination and their will to fight, and never to leave one of them behind when it was time for ‘the dead to bury the dead’.
This is the story of war at its toughest, of a normal American fighting unit, ‘mean as junkyard dogs’, fighting against all the odds and winning. Victory was truly theirs.
Sergeant First Class Fred Steen remembers the men of Black Knight Alfa and the fields of battle, he remembers their courage, grit and determination and their will to fight, and never to leave one of them behind when it was time for ‘the dead to bury the dead’.
