Profile Long Hung Village
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        The first Military Police Battalion in the history of the United States Armed Forces to be assigned a counterinsurgency/pacification infantry mission (Operation Stabilize), III Corps Tactical Zone, Bien Hoa Provence, Republic of South Vietnam, 11 September 1967 through 25 July 1970.
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Long Hung Village... Located in the western portion of the Tactical Area Of Responsibility (TAOR), Long Hung was the third largest village. It was bordered on the west by the Dong Nai River and on the north by the Ben Go River that separates it from the village of An Hoa Hung. To the south was a vast area of rice paddies continuing for approximately 1000 meters until reaching the village of An Xuan and Outpost-1. The east side was bordered by a banana grove and forest that extended to the Ben Go River.

        Motorized transportation to and from Long Hung was limited to one single lane dirt road connected to the north side of the Ben Go River by an an old one lane black steel beam bridge, referred to by the MP's as the "Steel Bridge."

        The village was also the home to a local Vietnamese VIP, Mr. Muoi. The land that Long Binh Post was build on was formerly a rubber plantation leased to the United States Army Vietnam (USARV) by Mr. Muoi who lived in a turn of the century French style home at the foot of the steel bridge, southeast side. It was upscale by Vietnamese standards for the TAOR. It was also understood that Mr. Muoi's residence was off limits for all MP operations.

 Permission had to be obtained from higher authority prior to entering onto the property. Popular rumor at the time was Mr. Muoi was "walking the fence," renting property to the US Military and paying war taxes to the local VC to stay alive. The Battalion brass avoided talking to the troops about him but the local PF's said he was paying off the VC to leave him and his family alone.

        The economy of Long Hung was mostly fishing and rice farming with the exception of one small brick manufacturing factory and a rice mill, situated along the river. There were several small banana, and grapefruit groves, most of the produce was sold locally in the An Hoa Hung Market Square or in the Bien Hoa area.
Of the four TAOR villages, Long Hung was the second most sympathetic to the Viet Cong. As with most Vietnamese villages, the more rural and inaccessible you were from governmental access the better the VC could maintain their influence and control. There were occasional harassment sniper fire incidents, but they were much more infrequent than at Outpost-1.
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