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| legal70 |
| Posted on: December 29th, 2010, 8:04pm |
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| recall one time our 2/1 recon was resting in some vegetation near a rice field when 3 dinks walked by......2 of them were killed.......when we took their weapons, noticed their ration consisted of a rice ball the size of a soft ball that was contained in a pouch tied around their waist with a strip of raw hide......tough people.. |
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| stillkit |
| Posted on: December 29th, 2010, 9:13pm |
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Our Chieu Hoi's would go out into the woods and come back with a bunch of different kinds of leaves which they'd boil up in a pot. I never tried them.
Also, we ran across an area of jungle out near Mary Ann where they have animal traps set all over the place. In fact, SSG Stailey, our PLTSGT step on one. He didn't get hurt, but made the Southern Cross in a story about stepping on a "booby trap" and living to tell about it. |
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| Frenchie |
| Posted on: December 29th, 2010, 9:55pm |
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| one of our guys (Gerald Patrick) stepped on a wolf/bear trap located in a rice paddy.....couldnt pop it open....took him and the trap out of there... |
Frenchie - Gilbert E Manasselian
C 4/31 Feb 68 to Feb 69
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| Bob Kotch |
| Posted on: December 29th, 2010, 11:46pm |
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| One time while on river patrol, we stopped at a small island. The mother of the ARVN on patrol with us lived there and invited us for lunch. We all got a big bowl of dirty, and I mean dirty, rice and fish heads, eyes and all. I still don't know what they did with the rest of the fish, because we only had the heads. Needless to say, I don't think any of us ate very much, except the ARVN. |
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| Frenchie |
| Posted on: December 30th, 2010, 1:50am |
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Maximum Member2 LIke to hear from anyone that was Co C 4/31
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just wondering what the little people did with our c rations...was it fine American Cuisine or just something in a can....
i can tell you that not all sealed cans are food.....found a base camp that had a can shaped like a carton of cigarettes and after i popped it open found out it was AMMO in a sealed up waterproof can. All sides were sealed with solder. |
Frenchie - Gilbert E Manasselian
C 4/31 Feb 68 to Feb 69
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| Fletchw2zero |
| Posted on: December 30th, 2010, 2:06am |
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| So, fish-heads and muddy rice = D-rats? |
Fletch
Co B 4/31 May through November 69
C Btry 1/82 Arty Nov 69 thru April-ish 70 radio handle whiskey two zero
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| Lloyd Martin C 3-82 68 |
| Posted on: December 31st, 2010, 12:44am |
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| I remember our Chieu Hoi number one chop chop was the embryo from eggs! |
Lloyd Martin
Austin, TX
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FO D 4/31 Feb 68 - Aug 68
XO C 3/82 Aug 68 - Aug 69 |
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| Ken McKenzie, C, 4-31 |
| Posted on: December 31st, 2010, 2:35pm |
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| We once paid a kid 25 cents a piece to eat the eggs that had bones and feathers in them. He ate about four, and then threw up. He wanted to eat some more but we wouldn't pay him any more because we were getting sick just watching him. |
Ken McKenzie
C-4/31, 196th LIB, 1965-1967
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| joemahoney |
| Posted on: December 31st, 2010, 4:28pm |
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When we moved to Chu Lai we were stationed on an Island, guarding a Hawk Missile Battery and the area from RT 1 to Cigar Island. Anyway we came on some kids cooking with a big pot. They were timing the pot. Turns out they were boiling CRABS. We (3 of us from Maryland) had a crab feast. ( most of the platoon were from OHIO and thought we were nuts).
These crabs were just like Blue Crabs from the Chesapeake. |
Joe Mahoney
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| Gregory B Peters |
| Posted on: January 1st, 2011, 11:09pm |
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Ken, I think the eggs were called Baluts or Blokes and you must of paid the kid a fortune. they were by far the most disgusting food source that I had ever witnessed. Our local Filipinos also had them. I saw people eating them even in the 5 star resturaunts all over Asia and had to get up and leave. I couldn't do the c-rat lima beans but would over these eggs, gaross!
Joe, I also remember the crab and lobsters from Chu Lai and China Beach and they were good! I grew up around the Chesapeake area and during the summers lived off the beach with crabs, clams,other shellfish, fish, roasted corn ears and watermelon stolen from local farm fields. |
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| Jim Gray |
| Posted on: January 2nd, 2011, 12:00am |
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we were in happy valley and at one time a family fixed a meal for us- rice and eggs ready to hatch with some type of sausage. we ate the rice and sausage-very good taste but not the eggs.
our interpretor once made a chicken dish for us with chicken cut up into small pieces along with several spices and rice. it was fantastic
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| Joe Greear |
| Posted on: January 2nd, 2011, 12:29am |
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Jim,
Those "hard boiled" ready to hatch eggs were great. You missed one hell of a treat.
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| Jack Krohn |
| Posted on: January 6th, 2011, 12:28am |
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| Joe Greear |
| Posted on: January 6th, 2011, 4:19am |
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Jack,
The ones i had, the chicks were not quite formed like the one in your picture, and they were hard boiled. |
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| Gregory B Peters |
| Posted on: January 7th, 2011, 11:25pm |
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The raw ones Jack shows seem to be tame compared to those that were just ready to hatch and had feathers and everything, seems those were hard boiled.
Joe Greear, curious question? how did you end up with us in '66, if your first tour was 65? Who did you go over with?
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