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E5,Battery B,3/82 Artillery,196th Infantry on Firebase Linda 71-72. Supposedly fired the last U.S. artillery round in Nam on Aug. 10,72. CBS was there to film it. Was back state side on Aug. 13. Known as Operation Gimlet. Was with the 101st. until they stood down and came back to Ft.Campbell but didn't have enough time in country so was transferred to 196th.
 
Army, Sent in 3 days before TET. Jan 68, 9th Inf. Div. Bearcat & Dong Tam.
Shot at & missed.
Sh#t & and hit, (AGENT ORANGE)
Led
 
Holy man, you had a VERY dangerous job with that radio on your back. You were walking BULLS-EYE. Thanks for your service. BIL was there, still doesn't like to talk about it. He was in a Artillery Unit.
 
Navy 64-68. Vietnam around 66 or 67 in Cam Ron Bay. I was attached to a sea plane tender for a while, to do repairs on our sea planes if needed. The planes did patrols along the Vietnam coast. One and a half months on a ship out of 4 years isn't bad in my book. Then the ship just sat there in the bay. Stan
 
My hat is off to all of you. Thank you for your service. My brother was with the 1rst Cav.
 
Did some Quail hunting on that base couple years back . I believe its Fort Riley The Big Red One. As i understand The Men from that base are the first ones to start kicking a$$ when SHTF happens. Is that true?? thats just what i was told while i was there. Anyways thank you for what you and your men do and did. I ve always felt safe knowing theres men like yourself out there watching after me and my family and everyone elses family
 
Thanks for your service, Lloyd! I was 11 C 10 (81mm mortars) in 1970 but compared to 11 B, we had it made. 11 B was the guts and grunt and believe me you earned your ticket home. Thanks again.
 
I got lucky. When I was assigned to my company, they asked for volunteers for thew mortar platoon, so I did. Was in FDC for several months, until the company was out in the rubber plantation and ran into an ambush. Lost some line men so when they came in the mortar platoon got smaller. Assigned me to a line platoon and I asked to carry the radio. Never had to walk flank or point. Was CO's RTO for a while. Lucked out and came home without a scratch.
 
Yep i was there . From one end to the other i was also down in DongTam for the start of Tet . was on base that night and darn near bought the farm on the first round of incoming . My buddy and i went in to base camp for a quiet night of relaxing and some drinking . We had Hoches there but we worked off the Mobil Riverein ships . There were five out in the river and to keep the team more secure there were three of us on each ship I was Army but i did not ware reg. G I issue , i did not carry G I issue I carried and AK 47 and something else in a bag. I was not with the 9th 2nd but attached . Only did one mission in the delta and the rest were done out to the west and north. we moved by chopper off the ships and sometimes we would go in on a night drop from 10000 or more . Yes i still have shell we say DREAMS of that time . From the start of TET to the end of it we were in some really hard firefight and with little to no back up maybe some artillery or some air support if ya could get it.
 
Just glad you were one of the lucky ones . I did a lot of point and a lot of night point . Been up in that country a time or two . Working way out shell we say GROUND HOG hunting . I got hit four times , once shot and three hits from mortor round that got to close.
 
Viet Nam should have been my war, but guess it just wasn't meant to be. When the draft board got to nipping at my heels I went to an Army recruiter and signed up, but with the provision that after basic I would go to Officer Candidate School. Passed all the IQ and psych tests, but was turned down on a bad knee. Still 1-A. I said f it and went Army Reserve. I've always wondered, though.....

Most of the time the war was going I was working in an ordinance plant. We made (from scratch) and loaded l55 mm projectiles; loaded 4.2 mortars, 2.75 rockets, Claymore mines, pod-delivered bomblets, and some other nasty classified stuff. It's an awesome sight to see when the U.S. military turns its attention to producing defense materiel. It's hard to imagine the scope of it.
 
4th Infantry Div, Base Camp Pleiku, Aug 67-Aug 68. Not in base camp much. Started out on fire base near DakTo then later moved back across country to fire base between Kontum and Cambodian Border. Was there during Tet. A year or two ago I pulled out all my pictures and had them put on a DVD for my kids. Only problem, I couldn't remember much about any of them, where they were taken or what was going on at the time. I guess God takes away memories of some of the tougher times in our lives.
For that I am very thankful.
 
I'm what they now call a Vietnam-era vet. Got drafted in Jan. 71 and just figured I would end up in the infantry like most of the draftees from our little town. One guy even got drafted for the Marines about '66 or so but made it back. Anyhow, ended up as an airborne combat engineer and spent most of my hitch at Ft. Bragg, NC. Saw several guys who came back and were hooked on heroin. Always wonder if they are still alive. Also was in the USAF during Desert Storm. They classify anybody who was active duty during that time as a "Persian Gulf Veteran" regardless of whether you were in- country or not. Have heard lots of stories of Air Force guys getting shot at in 'Nam, but you had to spend 3 days or so in-country to get credit for being in a combat zone.
 
70-71 Can Tou, Mei Tou, and Bin Tuey, welder in 93rd Engineers 3rd. shop (probably spelled the locations wrong, been a long time & don't think about them). We built them a nice new highway 2 from Cambodia to Saigon, now wasn't that nice of the good old USA LOL.
 
I was in the Army at the end of the Vietnam era 72-74. Spent my time at three bases in US, most at Fort Hood. I was always thankful that I didn't have to go over there but like everyone else, I could have been sent anywhere.
 
US Army June 63 to June 1966, Vietnam 12/12/1964 to 12/12/1965 Soc Trang, helicopter mechanic looks like this make me one of the first and maybe older :D Took note of the 50th anniversary the 12th of this month
GB in MN
 
I was there in 1966 with the 196th light infantry brigade in TAY NINH.
Was there for about 5 months took a bullet in my abdomen LUCKY TO E ALIVE.
 
My Team had six choppers assigned to us and only us . Two Cobras for support whiel going into a LZ or coming out , three huey's for transport and one as we called it the flying EGG that was our commanders personal ride.
 
I have a Mason Boot box full from over there and countless color slides . Then there are the six rolls of film that have never been developed that by now are no good and they have no stuff to do them any more and that is a good thing as you do not what to know what is or was on them . And like you i too have forgotten on some . Lots of pictures from the ships down on the Mekong lots of pictures from out the door of the chopper going to or from a LZ , Some of the air strikes we called in when we were not under pressure and running for our lifes . I made myself a promise once i was home that i was NEVER EVER going to RUN again and i was NEVER EVER WALING any feather then i had to And i was never ever going to sleep on the ground or in water or rice paddy .
 

71 to 77 149th Tac Ftgr Gp., had a draft number of 6 so I join the US Air Force. Did firecontrol (radar, gun controls, missile, bombing systems and avionics) for fighter aircraft. Did not want to sleep in the mud, and had flat feet, so I decided to sleep in a barracks and eat in a chow hall the whole time. Made my decision in my senior year in High School when my number was pulled. We did on occasion have to do with out cable tv and air conditioning. Got a great electronics and microwave education. Did get a bad case of athletes foot though.
 
Mucho Thanks to all you Viet Nam Veterans, I missed that being older, but my younger brother was there with the 1st 506 BTN of the 101st Airborne Div. I was a jet mechanic in the Air Force in the 1950's with the Strategic Air Command..a B-47B "Stratojet" crew chief in the 93rd Bomb Sqdn., 19th Bomb Wing (M)...Saw duty at Pinscastle and Homestead AFB's in Florida and Sidi Slimane, Ben Guerir and Nouasseur Air Bases in Morocco.....
 
I didn't get to the show, but I served on a Polaris sub and was in from '67 to '73. I guess we all had our jobs- one of ours was keeping a bunch of Russian subs and destroyers out of the Tonkin region, and I guess we were pretty good at it. They left our 7th fleet alone most of the time.....
 
JK2

US Army PhuLam 1st Signal Battalion also, Sept 70 to March 72. Originally assigned to the switching center then also drove jeeps etc as spare work. There were worse places over there.

If you haven't already, please email [email protected][PhuLam] to check in, he helps keep updates on PhuLammers and sends out emails to all known people who served there. Glad you made it back.

Warren
 
Well i do not know how it went up there the first night , but i can tell you this . It was no picnic . we had just left my buddy's houch and headed for the NCO club when the first rounds started coming in and My buddy Charlie's houch took the first round . The blast knocked us to the ground and as fast as we went down we were both back up on a dead run for any hole or bunker we could find. The rounds were coming down like rain . He and i dove into the slot trench of one of the 4.2 mortor pits and spent the night passen off rounds . we did not have any thing with us as there was a cease fire so they told us and so we had no WORK clothes on and no weapons with us . Shower shoes and cut off navy dungerees was NOT the dress for the evening . when the sun came up everything stopped and he and i headed for our Boston Wailer to get back out to the ships . Once we got out on the river our SHIP was GONE . All we saw was the vary top of the USS ASKARA heading west up river . They had up and pulled out and we either had to try and cautch up or be left behind . So we put that little 18 foot boat in the middle of the river and leaned on the throttles . They had a ten to twelve mile head start and with a mind blowing top speed of around 13-15 MPH and our 45 MPH speed it took foreven to get up to them . at times we were taking fire from the river banks as you could see the rounds dancing off the water. the next fun thing was trying to fight the wakes off them ships and get up behind the one we were on . we ended up at Vinlong and end up going in to retake the town that evening. That was the start of a vary long fight that we got vary little down time . even after everything was retaken they had us out doing stuff . I was still out in the bush and missed my flight home in May . we were working dark and when we got to a more saquire spot we called in for a resupply drop and the CO asked me if i knew what day it was . I told him that it was another hot stinking day in the bush and we needed FOOD water and ammo . He asked me again and i said no have no idea , he then told me that my fredom bird left yesterday with out me . All i told him was GET ME OUT OF HERE . We had to hoof it 15 more clicks before they could send in the chopper due to some stupid little line on some dumb map. Got the VIP treatment as he sent his flyen EGG to get me out first then the team . Back to Dong Tam for a shower chow then off to Long Ben to stat out prosessing Sigon then back to Dong Tam for the party and as luck would have it They mortored us , my last night in the Nam and they shelled us not once but twice . Next morning i had breakfast with the guys and back on the C O flyen Egg back up to tongsunute (SP) and set down on the tarmat next to a D C 10 with it's engines running and waiting for me , ground crew loaded my bags into the plane i gave some E 5 Airman my AK 47 and vest and i was out of there . I ended up on a Champain flight out of country the lowest ranking man other them was a Major . sure glad the Stwerests were FRIENDLY and Cute and that the bar was open as soon as the wheels were up. You know the old sayen RHIP.
 
I guess I'm getting old, I remember the stews being cute leaving Cal. and at each stop getting older until the last leg the crew was all men. On the way back it was just the opposite, I didn't complain.

Warren
 
199th Light Infantry, '67 -'68. When I returned, they gave me a 'safe job' training recruits to handle live grenades at Ft. Jackson. That was sometimes scarier than the jungle. Thanks to Sgt. Al Hall for pulling the shrapnel out of my back on several occasions!
 
I was in the US Navy 1966-70. Crew member aboard the USS Intrepid(CVA/CVS-11) for the July 1968 Vietnam Tour.
 
well, well...soc trang tigers, 121 assault helo, 66-67, hueys, d models...did u crew h-21?? none there by 66...1100 hrs, 7 hits,
never walked home, fine uh-1d, 64-13685, 64-13581, 66-792, crew chief/door gunner...had fine grunt on right side mach gun, fish...
flew in c-124, ok to luke, caribou to soc trang, c-123 out to saigon...didn know the lord, he kept me, till i could receive him,
1988...nik, 46 piper j-3 cub, flyin 55 yrs...be blessed, grateful, prepared, this year
 
(quoted from post at 11:12:52 01/01/16) well, well...soc trang tigers, 121 assault helo, 66-67, hueys, d models...did u crew h-21?? none there by 66...1100 hrs, 7 hits,
never walked home, fine uh-1d, 64-13685, 64-13581, 66-792, crew chief/door gunner...had fine grunt on right side mach gun, fish...
flew in c-124, ok to luke, caribou to soc trang, c-123 out to saigon...didn know the lord, he kept me, till i could receive him,
1988...nik, 46 piper j-3 cub, flyin 55 yrs...be blessed, grateful, prepared, this year
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Hi no H-21's when I got there they had been replaced by "B" model Hueys about 5/6 months before there was one H-21 hulk in the weeds, abiut mid 65 or so we started getting "D" Models but the "B"'s were a much better Helicopter then the first "D"'s.
GB in MN
 
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