Brookhaven VFW, Cpt Danny D. Entrican Post 2618

The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States (VFW) is a congressionally chartered (Title 36 USC Chapter 2301) war veterans organization in the United States. Headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, VFW currently has 1.5 million members belonging to 7,644 posts, and is the largest American organization of combat veterans.

Members must be a U.S. citizen or national with an honorable discharge from the U.S. military, or currently serving in the United States Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, or Coast Guard. Membership also requires military service overseas during an operation or conflict and decoration with an Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, a campaign medal (or ribbon). A Leave and Earnings Statement showing receipt of hostile fire or imminent danger pay is also acceptable proof for membership eligibility.

Post 2618 is named in honor of Cpt Danny D Entrican from Brookhaven, MS:

1Lt. Danny Entrican was a Special Forces reconnaissance patrol leader for Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol (LRRP) alert team "Alaska" which was inserted into the Da Krong Valley in Thua Thin Province, South Vietnam on May 8, 1971. Entrican's duty assignment in Da Nang was that of an advisor to the South Vietnamese army. His team consisted of three Americans and three Chinese Nung mercenaries. The team was overwhelmed in a firefight three days later about1 mile from the border of Laos, due west of Hue. During the firefight, two Americans and one Nung was killed. Surviving commando Truong Minh Long and interpreter Truong To Ha stated that they rolled downhill after a hostile search party detected them hiding in the bush. Danny and the two Nung had tried to make a chopper pickup, but Entrican, who was apparently wounded and yelled at them to move out and try to make the pickup alone. Danny Entrican was declared Missing In Action. Three months later, a friend of Danny's who was intensely interested in learning his fate heard his code name in an intercepted message. The message described his movement from the South to the North as a prisoner. Because the code names were highly secret and to be used by personnel on SOG missions to verify their identity, the friend reasoned that the enemy had extracted the code name from Danny. There could be no other way to obtain it and to him, it was clear proof that Danny was alive.
Henry Kissinger did not put Danny's name on his list of "discrepancy" cases for which the Vietnamese could certainly provide either the man or information on his fate. These were individuals who were known to have been under enemy control
- alive or dead. To this date, Danny's family does not know his fate.