1st Reconnaissance Battalion
September 1967
#### September 1967

On 5 September 1967, Nine Paratroopers \[8 USMC and 1 Navy HM2] 1st Force Recon Company, 1st Recon Battalion, 1st Marine Division parachuted into "Happy Valley" southwest of Da Nang, Quanh Nam Provience Against North Vietnam/Viet Cong supply centers. Because of unexpected high winds the mission could not be completed and the members Evacuated. Loses were 3 injured and 1 MIA.[Michael La Porte Vietnam memorial](https://www.vvmf.org/Wall-of-Faces/29255/MICHAEL-L-LA-PORTE/)


Why could the mission not be completed?