General Olinto M. Barsanti stationed the 2nd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, in the lowlands to help South Vietnamese forces defend Revolutionary Development areas and to prevent the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and Vietcong (VC) from acquiring rice during the summer harvest.

The ground attack struck the southwest edge of the perimeter and was beaten back by headquarters troops of the 1st Brigade, members of the 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment and helicopter gunships.

At dawn a sweep of the area revealed 54 PAVN dead and 16 weapons captured, also found were 40 satchel charges, 30 bangalore torpedoes, and 50 RPG rounds.

Three days later another cache was discovered 12 miles (19 km) southwest of Huế by the 2/327th Infantry, with more than 230 individual and crew-served weapons were pulled from storage bunkers dug into the jungle floor camouflaged with several feet of thick, overgrown brush.

On 8 October Company A, 1/506th found 40 decomposed enemy bodies in a stream bed at grid reference YD 764073 (16°19′48″N 107°35′13″E / 16.33°N 107.587°E / 16.33; 107.587), they appeared to have been killed by artillery.

[5]: 5 From 12 to 20 October 1/506th Infantry conducted combined operations with the Hac Bao reconnaissance company of the ARVN 1st Division in the "Salad Bowl" area at grid reference YD 718046 (16°18′00″N 107°32′35″E / 16.3°N 107.543°E / 16.3; 107.543).

[5]: 5 On 1 December a unit of the 1st Brigade 101st Airborne, discovered the bodies of 15 enemy soldiers in graves while searching an area 6 miles (9.7 km) east southeast of Phú Lộc District.

[7]: 14 On the afternoon of 27 February an element of the 2nd Brigade, 101st Airborne discovered a 4.5-ton munitions cache while searching a jungle area 15 miles (24 km) south of Huế.