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After only about a week on station, he was temporarily transferred 60 miles west to Phu Cat Air Base, located near the city of Qui Nhon on the Vietnamese coast. 3, but his initial time there was very short. But language training was good.”Īrnold arrived at Pleiku on Jan. “So, it backfired a little bit in that regard. “By the time I got to Vietnam, a lot of the guys that were in my same year group, had already been there for about six months,” he said. Ironically for Arnold, the additional year he spent attending language school put him behind many of his OSI Academy classmates when it came to getting to Vietnam. That was the surest way they knew for me to get to Vietnam quickly. I told them my score and they said that I would qualify for Vietnamese Language School. They said were not sending any second lieutenants to Vietnam, but they asked me what my Defense Language Aptitude Test Score was. I went down and talked to the assignments people and said, you know, I want to get to Vietnam as quickly as possible.

“I was in in college, my dad was an Air Force officer, and I knew I wanted a career in Air Force,” Arnold said, during a recent interview. Prior to arriving in-country, Arnold completed a year of Vietnamese language training in California. There, he was assigned to Detachment 5008 at Pleiku Air Base serving as a Counterintelligence and Area Source Program Officer. He arrived in Vietnam as a first lieutenant in Jan. For Bill Arnold, a retired OSI Special Agent, it's a day to reflect on his service and his unique experience as a counterintelligence officer at Pleiku Air Base, Vietnam.Īrnold joined the Office of Special Investigations in 1967, graduating from the OSI Academy Basic Course as a member of Class 67-H. On March 29th, the United States honors the bravery and sacrifice of its Vietnam War veterans with National Vietnam War Veterans Day.