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 Happy Healthy New Years to everyone (currently 1 views) |
| Frenchie |
| Posted on: January 10th, 2014, 10:16pm |
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Maximum Member2 LIke to hear from anyone that was Co C 4/31
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Frenchie and Ralph, I was on Ryder on the 4th of July 68. We had been up there for 3 weeks. As you know, we could wath the celebrations from Tam KY to DaNang. Nice light show.
Carl Fryman
C2/1 67-68 |
Carl, the light was indeed impressive....i cant help wondering what the little people tought of it. That had to have some effect on them
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Frenchie - Gilbert E Manasselian
C 4/31 Feb 68 to Feb 69
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| carlfryman |
| Posted on: January 11th, 2014, 4:43am |
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Frenchie, They probably thought crazy Americans and take that home with you when you go!
Carl Fryman
C2/1 67-68 |
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| Frenchie |
| Posted on: January 11th, 2014, 5:18am |
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Maximum Member2 LIke to hear from anyone that was Co C 4/31
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im sure they also thought......
DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!......i didnt know there were SO MANY |
Frenchie - Gilbert E Manasselian
C 4/31 Feb 68 to Feb 69
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| Jim Gray |
| Posted on: January 12th, 2014, 12:16am |
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Big Member Sept 67-Sept 68 D 3/21 and HHC
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| It was a really nice sight. I was on Baldy in Brigade HHC at that time. I will never forget all of the "fire works" that were shot up. |
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| Frenchie |
| Posted on: January 12th, 2014, 12:27am |
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Maximum Member2 LIke to hear from anyone that was Co C 4/31
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| Jim Gray maybe you can help me......i met .....actually saw...we never talked ...a Medal of Honor WWII man who was a CSM at the time.....the guy had fatigues that were strarched tothe max...would you know his name? |
Frenchie - Gilbert E Manasselian
C 4/31 Feb 68 to Feb 69
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| Jim Gray |
| Posted on: January 12th, 2014, 10:00am |
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Big Member Sept 67-Sept 68 D 3/21 and HHC
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| Sorry Frenchie I do not recall meeting him. |
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| Frenchie |
| Posted on: January 12th, 2014, 3:11pm |
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Maximum Member2 LIke to hear from anyone that was Co C 4/31
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Quoted from Jim Gray, posted January 12th, 2014, 10:00am at hereSorry Frenchie I do not recall meeting him. |
check your pm...thanks
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Frenchie - Gilbert E Manasselian
C 4/31 Feb 68 to Feb 69
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| Ralph Urrutia |
| Posted on: January 13th, 2014, 7:48am |
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Medium Member C 4/31 from Oct 68 / 69 196 Inf.
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Quoted from Frenchie, posted January 9th, 2014, 9:52pm at hereRalph your memory is clearer than mine....in the few months i was on Baldy i met a bunch headed to the field and i normally would ask to go thru their pack to weed out (no pun intended) all the junk they were carrying out there......such as after shave lotion etc |
I was one of those...you told us off the baggy pants being more comfortable than the tight ones and the boxer underwear was mostly not used out there....remember your lessons well! |
Ralph Miami Florida |
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| Ken McKenzie, C, 4-31 |
| Posted on: February 26th, 2014, 9:52pm |
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Jim Armstrong,
The laterite pit was just west (half-mile?) of the basecamp along a river. You were out at the Rock Crusher by Nui Ba Den. My company, C-4/31 spent Christmas 1966 at the Rock Crusher and then when we left you guys must have moved in.
I had just come back from R&R before Christmas, and had a position slightly up the side of the mountain in a banana plantation. At night I thought we were getting grenades thrown at us, but when I looked with the Starlite it was monkeys throwing rocks at us (NOT KIDDING).
Christmas on the mountain was good duty. We built Christmas trees from banana plants and decorated them. We had a turkey dinner brought out from basecamp (Tay Ninh), and no action.
While we were out there, one of our company climbed to the top of Nui Ba Den. It took him a couple of days, and did he get in trouble. He walked in on the Special Forces after we had basically given him up for dead.
When I went back to Vietnam in 2010, we took the gondola up the mountain and we tried to drive into the area where the Rock Crusher had been. We got fairly close; there is a Viet Cong memorial there. It was really weird going back there. |
Ken McKenzie
C-4/31, 196th LIB, 1965-1967
C-1/5(MECH), 25thID, 1967 |
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| Jim Armstrong |
| Posted on: February 27th, 2014, 5:59pm |
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Ken: It is likely we took over the position you guys had.
After nearly 50 years, my memory of some details seems to be less and less reliable. A blessing in many ways at that.
I may have described elsewhere the days after the New Year's truce at that location.
There was a man-made pond a few hundred meters from the 3rd platoon position. We had a good swim there on New Year's Day.
The next day a bunch from another platoon went the same way we did and was hit by what is now called an IED, a big arty shell with a battery trigger strip.
Three KIA
I think I saw some about your 2010 trip. Is there more? |
Jim Armstrong
C, HQ, A 2/1
1965-1967 |
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