Vietnam Veterans Day ...
Mar 29, 2017 06:15:55 #
Hope all my Brothers and Sisters (any service, any time) have a wonderful day and take a moment to remember those who are still amoung us ... !
Bob S
Bob S
Mar 29, 2017 06:20:33 #
Lookin' good - must be all those C-rats I see you squirreled away!
Mar 29, 2017 06:52:33 #
Thank you Bob! I almost forgot the day. It is good to be home from all the crap!!!
Mar 29, 2017 06:59:35 #
RLSeipleSr wrote:
Hope all my Brothers and Sisters (any service, any time) have a wonderful day and take a moment to remember those who are still amoung us ... !
Bob S
Bob S
Salute.
Mar 29, 2017 07:04:19 #
Erv wrote:
It is good to be home from all the crap!!!
So True ......very good words to reflect upon !
Mar 29, 2017 07:07:11 #
Mar 29, 2017 07:08:26 #
Mar 29, 2017 14:32:46 #
Thanks to all who served or supported, any era.
In country late 66 to early 69.
Army, HHQ Company 593rd General Support Group, Camp Granite, Qui Nhon, Binh Dinh province, RVN.
It sometimes rained a bit there, I am standing on an elevated sidewalk nearly a foot about the ground level, honest.
The crate is thermite charges for destroying my classified documents safes if needed. Office had 18" of water in it. An EOD type told us not to trust the water sealing so we put it on a fire barrel outside just in case. Amazing, the safes did turn out to be watertight the contractor must have goofed.
I really need to scan all my negs, pictures and slides.
In country late 66 to early 69.
Army, HHQ Company 593rd General Support Group, Camp Granite, Qui Nhon, Binh Dinh province, RVN.
It sometimes rained a bit there, I am standing on an elevated sidewalk nearly a foot about the ground level, honest.
The crate is thermite charges for destroying my classified documents safes if needed. Office had 18" of water in it. An EOD type told us not to trust the water sealing so we put it on a fire barrel outside just in case. Amazing, the safes did turn out to be watertight the contractor must have goofed.
I really need to scan all my negs, pictures and slides.
Mar 29, 2017 14:45:21 #
robertjerl wrote:
... Camp Granite, Qui Nhon, Binh Dinh province, RVN ...
We sailed into Qui Nhon harbor on the 6th of April 1966 ... the day after my second wedding anniversary ... seven days after my 19th birthday ... and 22 days after we sailed out of Oakland, CA ...
Bob S
Mar 29, 2017 18:44:58 #
RLSeipleSr wrote:
We sailed into Qui Nhon harbor on the 6th of April 1966 ... the day after my second wedding anniversary ... seven days after my 19th birthday ... and 22 days after we sailed out of Oakland, CA ...
Bob S
Bob S
We went as a unit after training and landed off the USNS General W. H. Gordon (AP-117) on either Dec 4 or Dec 8, I forget which in 1969.
28 days Oakland>San Diego(picked up Marines, first replacement battalion of draftees to go to Nam)>Naha>Da Nang(dropped off Marines)>3 days of circles in a Typhoon>going ashore via Higgin's Boats due to high waves preventing use of the piers.
I had one emergency leave, 1 R&R to Tokyo, 2 special leaves when I extended my tour and came back to Ft Lewis for discharge Jan 10, 1969. My DD214 says I had 2 years, 2 months, 2 days of overseas/Nam time.
Mar 30, 2017 06:06:32 #
F15emaddawg wrote:
Never heard of this one seperate and apart from Veterans day in November?
29 March,1973 is the official date when the last combat troops left Vietnam ...
Mar 30, 2017 06:16:12 #
Mar 30, 2017 07:21:59 #
richosob
Loc: Lambertville, MI
These men never got the thanks they deserved. They were all heroes in my book.
Rich
Rich
Mar 30, 2017 07:33:02 #
daplight
Loc: Kansas
Welcome home! 1st CAV, 17th Aviation, 65-66. We transitioned from 11th Air Assault Division at Ft Benning to 1st Air CAV and left by boat from east coast, through Panama Canal up to Long Beach, then straight to Vietnam. They didn't tell us 'officially' our destination until we left Long Beach, but it was obvious. Lot of years since then, but remember vividly still.
Mar 30, 2017 07:34:38 #
silver-rail
Loc: harrisburg, pa
Now your picture really brings back memories. And to all UHH Vets. Semper Fi
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