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).

Flashpoint Miniatures

Siege Works Studios in Brisbane Australia has recently purchased the Flashpoint Miniatures business from Anton Ducrot who originally started the business and is the sculptor of the range.

Flashpoint supply some excellently sculpted 15mm Vietnam figures including US Army, NVA, ANZAC, VC main and local force, hooches, and M113s (basic model and ACAV). They have a very active release schedule that includes a Saladin turret upgrade for the M113 for the Aussies, gun trucks, UH-1B's and many other products in the pipeline.

Flashpoint are busy developing Company sized Vietnam rules which should be available by the end of the year

What's New in May 2009

• Veterans Accounts: Delta Mike 2 provides some personal observations about the NVA and the VC.
• Suppliers: Added a link to Flashpoint Miniatures on the Suppliers page.
• Veterans Accounts: Delta Mike 2 provides some General Observations about wargaming Vietnam and some introductory notes about his tours.
• Organisation: the Organisation of an ANZAC Infantry Company - without the help of ANZAC veterans this TO&E would have been much more difficult to put together than it was. Thanks everyone.
• Veterans Accounts: Warren Atkinson - a veteran of 2nd Battalion, 9th Marines, in Vietnam '67-'68 presents an insight into the workings of a USMC mortar section.
• Combat Forces: Role of the Forward Artillery Officer in an Air-Assault - Follow an artillery FO into a hot LZ.
• Combat Forces: Aerial Rocket Artillery - an insight into the early development of ARA operations and SOPs
• Book Review: The Last Valley. Dien Bien Phu and the French defeat in Vietnam - submitted by Geoff Fablon (thanks Geoff).
• Model Review: TimeCast 15mm US Army Sandbagged Barracks - submitted by Jeff Fletcher (thanks Jeff).
• Combat Forces: Command and Control Helicopters - the development and use of helicopters as aerial command posts

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)