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| Joe Greear |
| Posted on: January 8th, 2011, 3:51pm |
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Minimum Member served with C/3/21 196th. 65-66-67
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Greg,
Don't know where you got your info about a tour in "65". I stated I was with C/3/21 65-66-67. Basic, AIT and other training at Devens & Camp Drum (Red-con Ready) Left devens on July 15th, 1966 via U.S.S. General Patch. Went through the Panama Canal, docked at Long Beach Naval Base for 3 days, left there and about 15 days later we landed at Vung Tau. Hope that satisfies your curiosity! What! Did you think you found a "wannabe". lol. Question for you. Were you at Devens in Oct. 1965?
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| Gregory B Peters |
| Posted on: January 9th, 2011, 5:06pm |
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Maximum Member2 B company, 3/21/196th, incountry 07/1966-07/1967
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Thanks Joe, I get it now. I thought you were "in country" 65-66-67. I had a brain fart forgetting the unit starting at Devens in '65. But I wasn't thinking "wannabe" but more a serious "lifer" with 3 tours in Nam.
Nope, wasn't at Devens, nor a boat people, but I could have been :-) My memory is hazy but recollections are that I was lazing at Gordon waiting for a jump school slot to open when I got orders to you guys. I was supposed to hook up at Panama and/or CA. You know the Army, and I was somewhat of a screw-up too, so something snafued and I was to late for one and to early for the other ended up flying to Saigon and on to Chu Chi and Tay Ninh to wait for the whole unit. I might have been the first replacement in the whole damn outfit :-)
talk about a tuff group to break into, I had no Devan's stories or Boat stories. But had one thing in common and that was we were all starting a year of hell together
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| Joe Greear |
| Posted on: January 10th, 2011, 3:43am |
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Minimum Member served with C/3/21 196th. 65-66-67
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Greg,
No problem. Welcome home brother. I know how you felt, being sent to a unit that had been together for a while. I had the same experience in late jan. 67, I was transfered to the 25th Div. in Cu Chi, assigned to B/1/27 "Wolfhounds". Never did get to know those guys like in the 196th. I was more like a cast-off, but after a while i got to be good friends with the guys in my squad. Wow!! some of those guys were nuts!!!
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| Gregory B Peters |
| Posted on: January 10th, 2011, 5:00pm |
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Maximum Member2 B company, 3/21/196th, incountry 07/1966-07/1967
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Hi Joe,
wow, what did you do wrong? No offense to the Wolfhounds, but I have to agree with you :-) I did some forays with them while waiting for the unit, scared the beejesus out of me some of the things they did on patrol or ambush. But the marines we releaved up in Chu Lai were not much better when we accompanied them on break-in patrols to get the lay of the land.
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| Hotel28 |
| Posted on: February 1st, 2011, 8:14pm |
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Peninsula south of Chu Lai - 67
We had a trusted Viet lady who ran a little shop in Phuoc Hoa. This was the little village near Hill 43. Bravo 4/31 had a company base camp on this hill. Her name was Goldie. She fixed us a local dish called Tam Duc. It was fresh boiled shrimp served with fresh jungle greens wrapped in rice flour wrappers. These were about the size of a won ton but were not fried. We dipped the wrapper in nuoc cham which is a sauce made from nuoc mam (whole ungutted fermented fish and salt) mixed with tea, sugar and shredded vegies like carrot. It was delicious!
Today I live near "Little Saigon" in San Jose, CA. We have great Vietnamese restaurants all over the place. These Viets are profoundly anti communist. |
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