‘Big Red One’ company reunites in Vero Beach

Staff photo by Mary Kemper Former members of Company D, 2nd Battalion, 16th Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, U.S. Army, gather at their reunion at Veterans Memorial Island, Vero Beach, June 21.

Staff photo by Mary Kemper
Former members of Company D, 2nd Battalion, 16th Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, U.S. Army, gather at their reunion at Veterans Memorial Island, Vero Beach, June 21.

Mary Kemper
Staff Writer

Some 30 to 40 members of a tightly-knit Army company that served in Vietnam and their families gathered in Vero Beach to celebrate and to mourn June 20 and 21. “We may look different today,” said Frank Jencik, organizer and former member of Company D, 2nd Battalion, 16th Brigade, 1st Army Division (the “Big Red One”). “But the bonds you form in combat, our close relationship, hasn’t changed.”

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