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 DId you guys use captured NVA gear? (currently 1 views) |
| Gregory B Peters |
| Posted on: January 6th, 2013, 6:28pm |
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Maximum Member2 B company, 3/21/196th, incountry 07/1966-07/1967
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Frenchie, another difference for us was even when we were "in", we were still "out".
We didn't have a base camp to be "in". It was a work in progress and nothing existed but an airstrip and miles of concertina wire as a perimeter. I think most preferred to be "out". Humping the boonies was tuff, but not as tuff as our wonderful engineers made it working us to death. It seemed like once we got all the amenities like a real tent over our heads, showers, PX, supply, church etc. it was time to move again.
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| Frenchie |
| Posted on: January 6th, 2013, 10:43pm |
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Maximum Member2 LIke to hear from anyone that was Co C 4/31
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Frenchie, another difference for us was even when we were "in", we were still "out".
We didn't have a base camp to be "in". It was a work in progress and nothing existed but an airstrip and miles of concertina wire as a perimeter. I think most preferred to be "out". Humping the boonies was tuff, but not as tuff as our wonderful engineers made it working us to death. It seemed like once we got all the amenities like a real tent over our heads, showers, PX, supply, church etc. it was time to move again.
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I understand that the party was never over for the Tay Ninh boat guys....i was probably talking about the OTHER units when i say 3 day out 4 days in...i heard they slept on REAL cots and mattresses or air mattresses. im sure you didnt have that luxury. The 196th LIB and Americal Div were not one of the "glory " units for sure.
Everything that happened during the early years was luck and guesswork. Luckily for our guys , the ground work was already done when i got in country... |
Frenchie - Gilbert E Manasselian
C 4/31 Feb 68 to Feb 69
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| Teacher |
| Posted on: January 8th, 2013, 4:04pm |
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| What I used that was an NVA hammock that I pulled our of a bunker up around Khe Sanh in March 70. Never saw a USA hammock anywhere. Our Kit Carson scout would sell you a hammock for a carton of cigerettes, but it was nylon and eventually in the middle of the night it would rip apart crossways and dump you. |
Don Campbell B co. 2/1 8-70-8-71 |
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| joemahoney |
| Posted on: January 9th, 2013, 5:22pm |
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First off let me make a correction, it was not fruit cake, it was bread pudding. The worst thing in the C rations. It was like a can of saw dust. We tried to heat it, mix water with it, bake it etc. Did anyone ever find a way to eat it.
Our hammocks were just plain light canvas about 7 X 3 feet, that we bought in Tay Ninh and later in the villages north of Chu Lai. The Green Berets used them on Núi Bà Ðen and showed us how to sling them low.
We received the poncho liners after Attleboro.
One last thing, I think Frenchie thinks we went out for 3 or 4 days, “not”. They would take us out and drop us off and we would walk back in, sweeping and searching. About two to three weeks was normal, the longest was 45 days. We were supposed to carry three days Emergency Rations in our packs. |
Joe Mahoney
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| JimStone |
| Posted on: January 10th, 2013, 6:08pm |
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Minimum Member A 3/21 67-68 Lexington, Ne
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| I got there in Oct of 67 south of Chu Lai. We had a base camp and all we had was butt packs or gook packs sold in the ville. then in Nov of 67 we moved to LZCenter and all of us were Issued ruck sacks. All of our clothes were turned in and we would get clean clothes on our resupply out in the field as we had no base camp. They were all shoved in duffel bags and guys who needed clothes worst, tears and such, went first and then by platoon. After the first plt got theirs picked out and trampled the rest in the mud with either great big or real small left, there wasn't much point of even going so if yours fit you just wore them until they fell off. It wasn't much of a system but that was it. If you needed boots you just put in your size befor resupply and hopefully you would get them. A case of c's on resupply every four days and usually hot chow every other time with the clothes. About every three week we would rotate up to Center and pull bunker guard and then back to the jungle. Life was good. |
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| Jim Gray |
| Posted on: January 11th, 2013, 12:02am |
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Big Member Sept 67-Sept 68 D 3/21 and HHC
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I also got there Sept 67. D 3/21 1st platoon. We had it good. (ha ha). We did have ruck sacks and poncho liners. We would patrol off of the base camp south of Chu Lai. Each morning we used mine sweepers and cleared the road and bridges. We actually only went on 1 day patrols. Then we moved up around Tam Ky and we then spent 43 days in the field. When we got resupplied we also got mail and sometimes we got a sundry pack. Christmas eve we were out of food. We were told that resupply would not be until Dec 26th. We were on a small hill with a small village below us. We killed a farmers chicken, took some of his rice and cooked it all together. We then spent the night taking turns in the farmers barn eating his raw peanuts.
To our surprise we got resupplied Christmas day and also got a complete hot Turkey and ham meal.
Yes. Life was great |
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| Jim Gray |
| Posted on: January 11th, 2013, 12:02am |
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Big Member Sept 67-Sept 68 D 3/21 and HHC
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I also got there Sept 67. D 3/21 1st platoon. We had it good. (ha ha). We did have ruck sacks and poncho liners. We would patrol off of the base camp south of Chu Lai. Each morning we used mine sweepers and cleared the road and bridges. We actually only went on 1 day patrols. Then we moved up around Tam Ky and we then spent 43 days in the field. When we got resupplied we also got mail and sometimes we got a sundry pack. Christmas eve we were out of food. We were told that resupply would not be until Dec 26th. We were on a small hill with a small village below us. We killed a farmers chicken, took some of his rice and cooked it all together. We then spent the night taking turns in the farmers barn eating his raw peanuts.
To our surprise we got resupplied Christmas day and also got a complete hot Turkey and ham meal.
Yes. Life was great |
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| JimStone |
| Posted on: January 13th, 2013, 6:12pm |
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Minimum Member A 3/21 67-68 Lexington, Ne
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| Jim Gray, do you remember the 1st sgt at the gimlet school when we first got there? He had some idiot pvt there as his runner and the base got mortared one nite. Anyway this idiot came running up to the 1st sgt with and m-16. All the 1st sgt was worried about was if the m-16 was loaded and chewed him out. I about cracked up. Welcome to Nam. Stoney |
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