Welcome to Eleven-Bravo

You've landed at 'Eleven-Bravo', formerly and historically known as Grunt or Gruntonline.com, Eleven-Bravo is a Vietnam War site dedicated to the support and growth of wargaming the Vietnam War and to the distribution of historical material relating solely to that war.

I welcome contributions from visitors and, in particular, from Veterans of the Vietnam War. Many US and other Free World Veterans have already helped me considerably with individual contributions and I am always looking for more first-hand information about organisation, tactics, experiences and general information which cannot normally be found in books.

Information available here covers a wide-range of subjects including. but not limited to; the US Army, USMC (United States Marine Corps), OOBs (Order of battle), Tables of Organisatiion & Equipment (TO&E), US Brown Water Navy (riverine forces), military police, wargaming, the Vietcong (VC or 'Charlie') and the North Vietnamese Army (known as the NVA).

What's New in November 2008

• Terrain: Riverside Hootch - a typical riverside hootch to populate your riverbanks.
• Organisation of Forces: US Divisional Armored Cavalry Communications - an explanation of the 1/4 Cav radio net and the procedures used to call air and artillery support as well as maintain contact with Squadron HQ. Thanks to Stan Homiski, 1/4 Cav veteran for all his help.
• Model Review: Peter Pig 15mm LVTP-5 AMTRAC - workhorse of the USMC, the LVTP-5 supported the Marines throughout the War. A review of the model by Barrie Lovell.
• Organisation of Forces: US Marine Corps AMTRAC Battalion - the ubiquitous LVTP-5 (Landing Vehicle Tracked, Personnel) or AMTRAC as it is commonly known (amphibious tractor) was used extensively as an armored personnel carrier by the Marines who lacked the M113. AMTRACs were used in a number of roles and despite their obvious bulk and vulnerability, served the Marines well.
• Model Review: Peter Pig 15mm M577 Command Vehicle - another extremely verstaile vehicle based on the M113 chassis the M577 served in numerous roles as command vehicle, artillery FDC, ambulance and more.

Are You a Veteran? Can You Help My Research?

I'm looking for help and information on a variety of subject areas. In particular I'd like help with information on the following;

• The layout of Night Defensive Positions
• The shape, size and disposition of perimeter bunkers, gun emplacements, FDcs, etc.
• Information on SOPs, particularly ambush, village search, combat air assaults etc.
• Organisation, equipment, forward observers, mech infantry...

To see the sort of information I am looking for please see Veterans Accounts. If you can help me then please contact me. Thanks.

Read a Good Vietnam Book Lately?

Have you read an interesting and informative book about the Vietnam War recently? If so, then how about submitting a review for inclusion here so that other people interested in the subject can gat an idea about it before purchasing for themselves?

It doesn't matter whether your review is of a Fiction or Non-Fiction book. For my guidelines on submitting a book review see Book Reviews

RSS Feed

Now you can keep track of things as they happen here at Eleven-Bravo. Just subscribe to my feed and you'll hear about updates as and when they happen. Just click on the feed icon in the browser address bar (Mozilla Firefox). The feed address is http://www.eleven-bravo.co.uk/11b.xml

Did you have a link to Gruntonline?

If you had a link on your website to Gruntonline I would appreciate it if you could take the time to change the link details to point at this site. I built up a good number of links with you all out there and now, having lost the Gruntonline domain name, all those links are dead and doing none of us any good. Thanks.

Bạn có phải là Cựu Quân Nhân của Chiến Tranh Mỹ không?

"Are you a Veteran of the American War? Did you serve with the North Vietnamese Army or with the National Liberation Front?" Tell me more...

Why 'Eleven-Bravo'

My original website was called 'Grunt' or 'Gruntonline' but since I lost the domain name I have had to create a new domain. I wanted to keep the connection with the Grunts so I chose 'Eleven Bravo' as a replacement for 'Grunt'.

11B is the US Army MOS (Military Occupational Speciality) designation for a Rifle Infantryman. The number 11 is the branch code (Infantry) and the B represents rifleman.

In the Marine Corps (USMC) the equivalent is MOS 0311 (03 is infantry and 11 is rifleman)

Fields of Fire is Back...

After humping the boonies for some time now, Todd McQuaid's excellent Vietnam forum 'Fields of Fire' has set up a new NDP.

As ever, a warm welcome awaits all Vietnam gamers and the forums are beginning to get repopulated so head on over, check in your gear, and get posting.