 In all, the reinforced regiment would have about 3,000 troops.Cầm himself intended to accompany the 101st Regiment, a unit that had seen little combat and was unfamiliar with the terrain of War Zone C, to its forward assembly areas near Suoi Da and then to depart to occupy a central position from winch to coordinate all three assaults.The 196th Brigade, a relatively green unit, had arrived in South Vietnam less than two months earlier, on 14 August 1966.