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| Eddie Johns |
| Posted on: March 9th, 2011, 11:58am |
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| Okay guys looks like we need a new memory tweaking.When was the first you realized you were not in Kansas anymore? |
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| Frenchie |
| Posted on: March 9th, 2011, 1:51pm |
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for most draftee i suppose it was when we received our invites....but for me i had an awakening when i saw this little girl that did not look vietnamese.
she looked anglo but spoke only Vietnamese...no french or no english.
I know my reply is somewhat unusual but that is it.
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Frenchie - Gilbert E Manasselian
C 4/31 Feb 68 to Feb 69
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| stillkit |
| Posted on: March 9th, 2011, 2:31pm |
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Uh....when I saw the sign which said, "Welcome to Oklahoma." :-)
Seriously? When loading magazines at Hawk Hill. It was the first time I'd done that and they weren't going to be used on a rifle range. |
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| Joe Greear |
| Posted on: March 9th, 2011, 3:54pm |
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Oh Boy!!! The first day in Tay Ninh base camp. We were blowing up thoe huge ant hills with C-4 and about the 3rd one we blew, here comes 2 Cobras flying through the air, one lands about 10 feet in front of Sgt. Nutter, he opened up with his M-16 full auto and shot that poor snake to pieces. Of course it was already dead when it hit the ground. We all had a big laugh.
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| Bob Kotch |
| Posted on: March 9th, 2011, 10:14pm |
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| When I stepped off the plane in Saigon. The heat and humidity floored me, the smell made me gag, and all those little people in black pajamas and coolie hats squating down were a sight I had never seen before. But mostly when I saw the guys who were heading home. They still looked like kids and were happy that they were leaving Viet Nam, but when you looked into their eyes, you saw how much more mature and hardened they were than us new guys and you got a sense of what you were in for. |
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| Frenchie |
| Posted on: March 10th, 2011, 1:27am |
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When I stepped off the plane in Saigon. The heat and humidity floored me, the smell made me gag, and all those little people in black pajamas and coolie hats squating down were a sight I had never seen before. But mostly when I saw the guys who were heading home. They still looked like kids and were happy that they were leaving Viet Nam, but when you looked into their eyes, you saw how much more mature and hardened they were than us new guys and you got a sense of what you were in for. |
One of the events that really got my attention was when I had basic at Ft Lewis , WA and i got sick and had to go to Madigan Hiosp. There i couldnt help noticing that there were MANY guys in wheel chairs minus limbs. No i didnt have to ask anyone why.
The othre thing that got my attention was when we were shipping out we stopped in San Francisco and the guys were all at the Red Cross office at the airport for coffee and what not...the place was SRO ...there i couldnt help overhearing guys just coming back from Nam who were telling us about Tet and how in Pleiku the NVA were marching down the Highway in formation like they owned the place...
Those two things really got my attention....i had forgotten those two things...been a while.
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| Larry D Mcknight |
| Posted on: March 10th, 2011, 3:53am |
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| Can't remember the exact day, but we were setting up base camp in Tay Ninh and was hit by our first mortar attack. I thought this is for real, these people are trying to kill us. |
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| Eddie Johns |
| Posted on: March 10th, 2011, 11:43am |
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| All are excellent replies. My first real memory was looking out the window , and seeing the gunships guarding the approach to Bien Hoa. Flown many times. Never saw that before. |
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| Fletchw2zero |
| Posted on: March 10th, 2011, 4:14pm |
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| I had a lot of resistance to the reality of it until walking off West. Then there was the dink on the trail. The point man stopped to light a cigarette then put it in his dead mouth. The dead dink's rotting buddy was off in the weeds nearby. Other than that, it was a very hot beautiful day walking down to the river. Toto took one look and hauled ass back to the world. Little bastard didn't take me with him. |
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| namvet382 |
| Posted on: March 10th, 2011, 10:00pm |
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| My wake up call was landing in Cam Ran bay seeing fires everywhere around the airfield. Thought that they would throw us a rifle/ammo & we would start fighting as we got off plane. Feb 28 1968. |
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| Gregory B Peters |
| Posted on: March 12th, 2011, 7:54pm |
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I remember blowing up those termite mounds also, never did know what to expect whould fall out of the sky. That first mortar barrage was also any eyeopener along with B-52 bombing raids. Even Death was sureal. but the real epiphany for me was the first time I had to do the shit burning! especially the day after malaria pill day, then you really knew you weren't in Kansas anymore :-)
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| Bob Kotch |
| Posted on: March 12th, 2011, 10:44pm |
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| All of the comments you guys are making are right on and bring back long forgotten mnemories. Greg, you are so right about the mess burning. When I first arrived at Bein Hoa prior to being assigned to the 196th, I saw black smoke raising into the air at about 20 different places. I thought we were being over run by VC, and not having yet been issued a weapon, I figured I would be dead in my first day in country. Then I found out all the black smoke was from shit burning. Fortunately, I never pulled that duty. |
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| Jack Krohn |
| Posted on: March 14th, 2011, 5:01pm |
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| when I got off the re-supply huey to meet up with my company out on patrol as an FNG |
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| MartyOdette |
| Posted on: March 14th, 2011, 9:20pm |
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| On my first night with the infantry company I was assigned to on Hawk Hill and beginning my shift of guard duty (0300) we were hit by sappers inside the wire who made it to the chopper fuel tanks and BTOC with sachel charges! I thought-I'll never see Kansas again Toto!! |
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