Mutter's Ridge - Divided Ground - Vietnam

Firebase Rockpile, 25km West of Dong Ha, Quang Tri province, I CTZ (Best played as USMC). During Operation Hastings in July 1966, the U.S. Marines repelled NVA Division 324B's invasion of Quang Tri Province and forced the division to withdraw into the DMZ. But in the first week of August American intelligence discovered that 324B was moving back into Quang Tri and establishing fortified positions in the jungle-covered western mountains. The enemy's goal was to capture the Rockpile and launch an assault on Quang Tri's populous coastal region. The marines immediately responded to the threat. On August 3, the day he ended Hastings, Brigadier General Lowell English, commander of the 3d Marine Division, launched Operation Prairie. In Prairie eleven marine battalions (nearly eleven thousand men) would face the same opposition and the same kind of combat as they had in Hastings. Their objective was also unchanged: preventing 324B from gaining a foothold below the DMZ for an attack on South Vietnam's northernmost provinces. The longest, fiercest fight in Prairie took place in late September, when General English decided to attack the elaborate fortifications being constructed by 324B along a ridge known as Nui Cay Tre. Hills 400 and 484 were the marines objectives in the battle for Mutter Ridge, named after the radio call signal of the 3rd battalion, 4th Marines.