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| Bob Kotch |
| Posted on: February 26th, 2011, 9:49pm |
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| Greg & Joe, you guys do bring back memories, good ones. Unfortunately for me, I was a lousy poker player (and still am), but the other guys enjoyed having me in the game! Fortunately for me, it didn't take me long to figure it out and I steered clear of the games. At least I had a little $ in my pocket, but not much to spend it on. So I sent most of it home and had enough to get a new car when I came back to the world. |
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| Larry D Mcknight |
| Posted on: February 27th, 2011, 12:25pm |
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| Greg, I didn't say they were great perks, but when you are 21 all perks are considered pretty good. I luck out, no KP in Calif. |
Larry D. Mcknight
B Co., HHC S-4 2/1
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| Frenchie |
| Posted on: February 27th, 2011, 5:20pm |
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when i got to Cam Rahn Bay to go home...i think thats where i went...they checked my medical records and somehow came up that i needed a SHOT and i dont mean a shot of booze.
The guy and I went to his "office" and he signed off (no shot) and i went on my merry way...think about this tho...i was "UNPROTECTED" from some disease all that time...
oh the agonyyyyyyyyy of it all... |
Frenchie - Gilbert E Manasselian
C 4/31 Feb 68 to Feb 69
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| stillkit |
| Posted on: February 27th, 2011, 7:40pm |
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Quoted from Bob Kotch, posted February 26th, 2011, 9:49pm at hereGreg & Joe, you guys do bring back memories, good ones. Unfortunately for me, I was a lousy poker player (and still am), but the other guys enjoyed having me in the game! Fortunately for me, it didn't take me long to figure it out and I steered clear of the games. At least I had a little $ in my pocket, but not much to spend it on. So I sent most of it home and had enough to get a new car when I came back to the world. |
Right after I arrived in Vietnam, they announced a new program: Instead of going on R&R, we could go home for 2 weeks, if we had the leave time. I checked at the travel office in Chu Lai and found I could do it for $350.
So.....I sat down at an Acey Duecy game at Hawk Hill one afternoon and didn't quit until I had $350, which I promptly deposited in the company safe until we got back from the Bush and I could ride the convoy down to Chu Lai and buy my ticket.
As I got up from the game, everyone said, "Hey! You can't quit while you're ahead!"
I said, "Yeah? Watch me." :-) |
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| Jim Armstrong |
| Posted on: February 27th, 2011, 9:17pm |
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I had (and still have) a good friend from high school days who was an REMF in Saigon about the same time I was in country. I think he left with well over 20 grand in poker winnings.
I may have found time to play in two or three card games the whole time I was there. One of those I remember was at Dau Tieng with the Batallion Surgeon among others. It was sort of distracting as he continued to do "short-arm" inspections for VD the whole time: "Pull it back, milk it down, see the medic for a shot." Gahhh! |
Jim Armstrong
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| Gregory B Peters |
| Posted on: February 27th, 2011, 11:36pm |
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I think my paycheck was $127, I had $100 going to a saving account back home and $27 in my pocket every month. you never knew how much time you had so Acey-duecy was the game of choice. or dice. I had some Michiganners in my squad and they loved to play euchre. Bunker duty out at Nui Ba was where the big games were.
Of Course Jim had to go and bring up a suppressed memory, short arm inspections :-) Went to Penang for an RR. when the flight landed they gave us a gross of rubbers and told us that Penang had a 99% VD rate. Ain't that just like the Army, send you to paradise and then handicap you! wish they had told me that before I got on the plane.
I had squeaky clean inspections until coming back from Hong Kong, I had hooked up with a British Nurse, but evidently so did everyone else.
Stillkit, thank God they didn't have that home RR deal early, that would be awful hard to
come back from. I remember the married guys were killing for Japan, Austrailia and Hawaii so their families could join them. |
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| stillkit |
| Posted on: February 28th, 2011, 12:46am |
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Stillkit, thank God they didn't have that home RR deal early, that would be awful hard to
come back from. I remember the married guys were killing for Japan, Austrailia and Hawaii so their families could join them. |
It was hard. In order to keep from deserting, I started drinking in the bar at Love Field in Dallas and didn't stop until I was on the plane at Oakland. The hangover didn't pass until I was back in Vietnam. |
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| Bob Kotch |
| Posted on: February 28th, 2011, 10:18pm |
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| Great stuff! I didn't know you could go home instead of taking R&R. Greg, I agree with you and am glad they didn't let us go home. It would be to tempting to stay there and not come back. Stillkit had the right idea for getting back! |
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| Frenchie |
| Posted on: March 1st, 2011, 12:26am |
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Quoted from Bob Kotch, posted February 28th, 2011, 10:18pm at hereGreat stuff! I didn't know you could go home instead of taking R&R. Greg, I agree with you and am glad they didn't let us go home. It would be to tempting to stay there and not come back. Stillkit had the right idea for getting back! |
I got an Hawaii R&R and i wasnt married. So when i got to Hawaii (short version) i paid my own way to SF and home to Fresno for my R&R...surprised the heck out of the family....and went back to the boonies.
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Frenchie - Gilbert E Manasselian
C 4/31 Feb 68 to Feb 69
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| Ken McKenzie, C, 4-31 |
| Posted on: March 1st, 2011, 12:35am |
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I was in the field for 72 days and they came and asked me if I wanted to go to Hawaii the next day. I wasn't married, and I planned to get off the plane and catch a plane back to NY/NJ. When I actually got to Hawaii, I decided that if I went home, I'd never come back, so I stayed in Hawaii.
When I was getting off the plane in Hawaii, a Major spun me around and looked at me and my nametag. He said: "McKenzie, where the hell have they been keeping you?" My hair was over my ears, and I had a mustache that drooped over my mouth down to my chin. I just said "Junction City" and he left me alone. |
Ken McKenzie
C-4/31, 196th LIB, 1965-1967
C-1/5(MECH), 25thID, 1967 |
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| Bob Kotch |
| Posted on: March 4th, 2011, 6:55pm |
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| I tried to get a Hawaii R&R but couldn't because I wasn't married. Then a buddy and I put in for R&R to Australia. We got it and when we were getting ready to leave, we were bumped by a couple of field grade officers. Bangkok was usually available, but, for some reason, I wasn't interested in going there. I spent my whole year in Viet Nam without taking an out of country R&R. I did get a 3 day in country R&R to Vung Tau, but with all the hops and stops to get there, it took us 12 days from the time we left until returned. Of course, we were in no hurry. Had a great time! When we got back, the CO just looked at us, shook his head, and said "I didn't expect you back so soon". Then he laughed and told us to get back to work. That's the last we heard of it. |
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| Joe Greear |
| Posted on: March 5th, 2011, 3:36pm |
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Bob,
The same thing happened to me and a buddy. We put in a 10-49 for a 7 day leave to Taipei. It took us 16 days there and back. What a trip that was. Really enjoyed it though. We spent 5 days in the Aboriginne Mountains with a couple of hookers (Who were Aboriginnes, the Chinese version of Indians) The CO just shook his head and told us to hit the chopper pad for back in the field.
Joe G. |
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| Larry D Mcknight |
| Posted on: March 5th, 2011, 5:45pm |
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| Joe, I went to Taipei also, but never got out of the city. We did spend a day in some kind of garden though. I remember signing those 24 hr contracts for the hookers at certain bars. Don't remember how long I was gone, but had a great time. |
Larry D. Mcknight
B Co., HHC S-4 2/1
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| Gregory B Peters |
| Posted on: March 5th, 2011, 8:09pm |
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I also went to Taipei and also spent most of my time up in the mountains. It was beautiful and quite interesting with the history and museums dedicated to the Aboriginnes. I didn't care for the large cities and liked to get off the beaten path and go native. One thing about Taipei country side was there weren't a lot of military there before, so we were still in good standing with the natives. i talked to others that were in Nam later years and they said that all their RR's everywhere really sucked, lots of pimps,whores, muggings etc. I didn't do the bar scene, dealt mostly with the hotel consigneare.
I was told by others that if you brought a bar girl back to the hotel and were observed, that the hotel staff would force the girl to pay a fee to them. |
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| Bob Kotch |
| Posted on: March 6th, 2011, 9:47pm |
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| Greg, Larry & Joe, Taipei sounds like it was a great place for R&R. You guys made a good choice. I'm sure I would have really enjoyed it. Did anyone go on more than one R&R? I think a couple of our guys managed to pull it off. |
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