Description
Vietnam War Forward Operations Base 4 Recon Team Diamondback Patch
Bought by a collector in the mid 1990’s
Vietnam War patch for a forward operating base. Recon Team Diamondback was one of the original Spike Recon teams to operate out of Da Nang and was named prior to the ‘State Naming’ of Recon Teams from Command and Control North. In operation as early as 1963, Recon team Diamondback operated from FOB 4 (Forward Operations Base 4) which was Special Forces Detachment C-1 at Da Nang. Diamondback were in place at Da Nang from the inception of MACV-SOG CCN and were reallocated Mike Force Operations in 1968 at Detachment B-16 as a Forward Recon Element throughout the DMZ. In November of 1970, Detachment B-16 was handed to the South Vietnamese Rangers and the Unit was disbanded
Condition as pictured
