Name: Jim Wheeler
Email: jwheeler at prudentialmissoula dot com
Hometown: Lolo, MT
Date: September 21, 2008 - 09:51 PM (pacific)
I was stationed at Lia Khe from March of 1970 through March of 1971 as a medic with the 227 HHC. There was an orphanage about a mile outside of Lia Khe on the way to Ben Cat. I wonder if any knows anything about what happened there and what happened to the kids
Name: Salisu Bello Harris
Email: goldounbhs at gmail dot com
Hometown: Kano, Kano
Date: September 21, 2008 - 12:16 PM (pacific)
May the loss and suffering be not in vain.
Name: brenda hutchison
Email: bhutchi473 at cox dot net
Hometown: ,
Date: September 21, 2008 - 11:20 AM (pacific)
Looking for anyone who might remember my Dad, John F. Allen. He served with the USAF in Cam Rahn Bay either from 66-67 ... or 67-68. He is alive doing well .... and is lung cancer survivor. His birthday is coming soon and I would love to reunite him with some of his long lost friends!
Brenda Hutchison
bhutchi473@cox.net
Name: Rance Jurevwicz, Capt., USA, Ret
Email: info at veteranprograms dot com
Hometown: Highland, CA
Date: September 21, 2008 - 07:08 AM (pacific)
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Name: George R Sands
Email: barkleybass62 at att dot net
Hometown: Cadiz, ky
Date: September 20, 2008 - 11:27 PM (pacific)
I was in viet nam Nov.16-Oct14th I was part of an air mobile contact team .with Bruce lauer from Los Angles. Jack Ahart from New Jersey , Bill Morgan , and this Sargent Callahan, and another Sargeant who's name I cannot remember. any of you call me.
Name: Rebecca Samuels
Email: RebeccaSamuels at aol dot com
Hometown: ,
Date: September 20, 2008 - 09:00 PM (pacific)
In Loving Memory of L/Cpl John Paul Klabunde, Echo Co., 2/9, Third Div.One month after his 21st birthday he was killed in action in Con Thien while attempting to rescue others who were pinned down. I miss him to this day.
Name: Rebecca Samuels
Email: RebeccaSamuels at aol dot com
Hometown: ,
Date: September 20, 2008 - 08:47 PM (pacific)
I'm looking for anyone who remembers L/Cpl John Klabunde, 2/9 Vietnam, KIA Sept 6, 1967, at Con Thien. I was his girlfriend at the time and anything I can learn about his time in Vietnam would be greatly appreciated....I love the USMC!!!
Name: Dave (Smokering) Syster
Email: daveandsue(at)(juno)(dot)(com)
Hometown: Derry, Pa.,Largo, Fl and, Bryson City, NC
Date: September 20, 2008 - 05:30 PM (pacific)
I worked and lived on top of Monkey Mountain in the shadows of the radar domes. In fact, I lived in the basement of the domes after a typhoon destroyed our hootch. I was with the 366th SPS, a security police detachment out of DaNang during July 70-August 71. Contact me for any reason, I'll answer you back.
Name: Dan Smith
Email: ruffcut2 at verizon dot net
Hometown: Summerhill, Pa.
Date: September 20, 2008 - 03:11 PM (pacific)
I was up on Monkey Mountain at MACS 4 and worked in motor t. 70/71. I hope to hear from some others soon. Did everyone enjoy the parade you got when you came home?
Name: martin r schwartz
Email: starmopar at aol dot com
Hometown: englewood, co
Date: September 19, 2008 - 11:46 PM (pacific)
usarv motor pool, saigon support command, usarv hq, i was company co of the motor pool that supported hq usarv in long binh may 68 to may 69. hi to all that served and stand proud for what you did.
Name: emmet g calvin
Email: rsgfpershing
Hometown: gainesville, fla
Date: September 19, 2008 - 08:18 PM (pacific)
I served 68/69 A /228 1stcav
We flew CH-47 A models
QUESTION ? WHAT was FIRST PRIORTY !
Name: MELVIN L BURD
Email: mlburd at sbcglobal dot net
Hometown: ,
Date: September 19, 2008 - 05:10 PM (pacific)
I SERVIED FROM 8-167 TO 7-28-68 HHC2BDE I WAS A COOK
Name: James E. Gillman
Email: jimbogilly1 at aol dot com
Hometown: Culpeper, Virginia
Date: September 19, 2008 - 03:40 PM (pacific)
Looking for old friends that served in the Navy in Danang,Vietnam working in Civic Action 1966-1967.
-Jim Gillman
jimbogilly1@aol.com
Name: JOHN D GEORGE
Email: johngeorge7881 at sbcglobal dot net
Hometown: Barnhart, missouri
Date: September 19, 2008 - 02:27 PM (pacific)
I was with HQ 3/11 from June '69 to June '70
FDC OP Eaglesnest. Would like to hear from any one connected at that time.
Name: PHILLIP ROBERT DAVIES
Email: cm2me23cm at yahoo dot com
Hometown: Woodbridge, VA
Date: September 19, 2008 - 08:20 AM (pacific)
Served with the 37th Signal Bn in DaNang from 05/68 to 05/69.
Returned twice as a tourist once in 1999 and again in 2002. Really enjoyed my stay both times beautiful country and friendly people.
Name: ed-gabby- lynn guenther
Email: ed_guenther69 at yahoo dot com
Hometown: , iowa
Date: September 18, 2008 - 02:16 PM (pacific)
names gabby commo 4/12 1968 to nov. 1969.when things get to you,remember its just another day in the nam.
Name: Tim Shalk
Email: tshalk at datalink dot com
Hometown: ,
Date: September 17, 2008 - 07:05 PM (pacific)
HM2 - Served on USS Coral Sea CVA 43 - South Vietnam Yankee Station - 1967 - also MCB10 31st Naval Consturctoin regiment
Name: Johnny Laxton Easters
Email: jeasters at aol dot com
Hometown: ,
Date: September 17, 2008 - 06:23 PM (pacific)
Served with the Army as a member of Adv. Team 64 in Chau Doc 69-71. Looking for old team members.
Name: Aaron J. Mabon
Email: amabon at bpu dot com
Hometown: Bonner Springs, Kansas
Date: September 17, 2008 - 06:12 PM (pacific)
Looking for anyone who served in Vietnam from Aug. 1970 to May 1971 in Phuoc Vinh or Bien Hoa. I was in HHC 1st ACD USARV.
Name: Michael Donnelly
Email: mdonn76405 at aol dot com
Hometown: ,
Date: September 17, 2008 - 04:47 PM (pacific)
I remembered, but didn't want to.
Semper FI
http://ehistory.osu.edu/vietnam/books/vietnamization/0364.cfm
Fraggings in III MAF plagued both secure rear areas and forward positions. In the 1st Marine Division, 62 percent of the assaults during 1970 took place in can¬tonments near Da Nang; 38 percent occurred at com¬bat and fire support bases, observation posts, and battalion CPs. Clubs and living areas were favorite tar¬gets, with grenades typically rolled through a hut or bunker entrance or exploded against a wall. Lower-ranking enlisted men committed most flaggings, com¬monly against NCOs and junior officers.95 The mo¬tives for fragging were as varied as the tensions afflicting III MAF. A few flaggings, including the one in Maintenance Battalion, appeared to have been ra¬cially motivated. Others reflected anger and resent¬ment at a particular small-unit leader or were efforts to get rid of an incompetent or particularly aggressive commander. Many flaggings were committed under the influence of alcohol or drugs or for drug-related reasons, for example pusher-buyer disputes or intimi¬dation of informers. Probably the majority of flaggings resulted from individual personality disturbances. Brigadier General Simmons observed:
http://www.virtualwall.org/dp/PateRD01a.htm
A Note from The Virtual Wall
Corporal Ronald Pate's casualty record is coded as "C1-U-7", which translates to "Non-hostile, Died Of Other Causes - Other Accident - Ground Casualty", but the record is misleading.
Cosmas and Murray, writing in U.S. Marines in Vietnam, 1970-71, p. 364, say
"FLC [Force Logistic Command] suffered the most costly single fragging of the year on the night of 5 February, when a Marine tossed a grenade into the crowded patio of the Maintenance Battalion enlisted men's club. The resulting explosion killed one Marine and wounded 62."
The dead Marine was Corporal Pate, characterized by one friend as "a nice guy, soft spoken and wouldn't hurt a fly. He wasn't flashy like some, just a likeable ordinary guy with a down-home attitude".
Another friend objects to the "Non-hostile - other accident" classifications, saying
"I think a frag grenade over the wall at the EM club by a fellow Marine, because of hatred, would constitute hostile action! He did not die in an accident, but from an excess of hatred."
Although the Naval Investigative Service (NIS) eventually arrested four enlisted Marines in the Maintenance Battalion fragging, Marine courts-martial acquitted all four defendants.
Name: Rocco (Rocky) Longo
Email: chipr581 at aol dot com
Hometown: Staten Island NY, NY
Date: September 17, 2008 - 01:43 PM (pacific)
Went over to vietnam with whole unit. Served in "B" Battery 3/16 artillery communications section under SGT. Davis. June 67 in vietnam and then to HQ Battalion 1/14th artillery when unit split up from Dec.67 to May 68.
Name: jim reardon
Email: juslin2 at msn dot com
Hometown: ,
Date: September 17, 2008 - 11:55 AM (pacific)
I was in Phu Bai 70-71 with the 2nd Maint.Battalion, Radio Operator. I have liver cancer now and I find myself thinking more about that year. I always hope to go back at some point for some closure. Not happening I guess.
Name: Joseph M. Grimm
Email: jgrimm1 at peoplepc dot com
Hometown: Lancaster, Pa
Date: September 16, 2008 - 09:56 PM (pacific)
I was stationed at an-khe camp Radcliff from10/69-11/70 hhb 4th/60th arty.I started out in the motorpool after a month or so I became cournel's driver and water truck driver.My nickname was maddog anyone who remembers e-mail me and we can reminiss and recall old friends.Thanks for serving and welcome home brothers.
Name: richard w riordan
Email: riordan_1999 at hotmail dot com
Hometown: el cajon, ca
Date: September 16, 2008 - 08:09 PM (pacific)
joined the navy 19 68 .retired jan 1986 as a cm-1.did 2 9 months deployments to viet-nam oct 1968 until june 1969.the jan 1970 until oct 1970.with mcb-10.went to the wonderful island of diego garcia in 1974 until 1975.
Name: Waverly Lee Clark
Email: waverlyclark at sbcglobal dot net
Hometown: Oak Park, Illinois
Date: September 16, 2008 - 07:54 PM (pacific)
I served in Viet Nam, from 1965 to 1966. I was in C/2/18; in the 4th Platoon. Prior to leaving the country I made squard leader. I was with the Mortars and 106. We were the weapon's Platoon: we humped the bush and provided direct and indirect fire. We also conducted ambush patrols.
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