Boyd Jones, commissioned as an Army engineer officer via ROTC at Norwich University, discusses his two tours in Vietnam. Then-Captain Jones describes his first six months of combat as the S2 at the headquarters of 4th Engineer Battalion at Camp Enari in the Central Highlands in 1967 doing primarily aerial recon. “A lot of ground fire, that type of thing. Occasional rocket attacks at the base camp.” In December 1967, he was assigned as commander of Charlie Company, 4th Engineer Battalion and moved to LZ Baldy nearer the coast, where his company was “pretty much cut off for a couple of weeks” during the Tet Offensive. He describes combat there as “a little bit more personal.” There they captured a couple of prisoners, and “had an event where I had to keep my interpreter from using a pistol on one of them.” In 1971, Jones returned to the 4th Engineers for a second tour, this time located at the Weight-Davis Quarry. “We were it then,” he recalls. “Everyone else had gone home … and we're sitting in the Central Highlands.” Fortunately, they had enough firepower “to do some serious damage,” and they were never overrun. The engineers there were responsible for mine sweeping, building “serious road,” and keeping the roads open. He remembers with some amusement the Ft. Belvoir engineer mine detector incident, the lieutenant and the Chinese communist mine incident, and the ambush of the beverage convoy. He also recalls the time when the helicopter he was in got shot up and crashed on the Dust Off pad, and he was shot in the calf muscle.