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These days in history (reply)
Posted by: aab3340
Date Posted: July 16th, 2016, 9:14pm |
| Greg We had three MPs in the Advanced Party I still have a lot of contact with one of them. He draws a blank about details. Any ideas from you when the Advanced Party left FT. Devens, how many, when you got there? When myself and several other MPs got off the ships they took us to a staging areas where our vehicles from Devens were waiting and we ran convoys to Tay Ninh. I was in the Advanced Party to Chu Lai in my group was about 90 a plane full I look at the 175th site every so often, I think it tells our story the best of any site. |
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These days in history (reply)
Posted by: aab3340
Date Posted: July 14th, 2016, 2:40pm |
| Hi Jim It has been awhile, I also do not remember much about leaving Ft. Devens other than boarding the buses, arriving at the docks, much confusion about boarding the Darby. I guess boarding over 1000 passengers is a lot to deal with. The real confusion that I remember was the first lifeboat drill, most did not know where to go myself included. Seems not many of the originals left, on this forum anyway. Bob Poznanski HHC, MP Platoon 1965-67 |
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MEMORIES (reply)
Posted by: aab3340
Date Posted: April 25th, 2015, 7:45pm |
| I also was on the Darby. I can not recall the time frame but the first real shower was when they built a base shower near the hospital area and main gate. They must have drilled a well, allowing maybe about 10 guys to use it at a time. It was inside of a tent with pallets on the floor for the water to drain. HHC company area was next to the airstrip. I think we setup our own tents, no floors or electric for some time. The advanced party was only about 10 days ahead of us. |
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Posted by: aab3340
Date Posted: June 10th, 2014, 12:35pm |
| Trying to locate William Soukup, he was one of the originals from Ft.Devens. He was rotated either to to the 25th of the 9th Div. during the infusion process. After discharge went to law school and became a lawyer I think in Orange County Ca. |
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VA Clinic Experience (reply)
Posted by: aab3340
Date Posted: November 19th, 2013, 3:59am |
| Frenchie By my calculations if you are at 40% and they give you another 10% , that will give you 50% total (10% of the remaining 60% is 6 which rounds to 10) On the other hand if they give you 20% that will still give you 50% total (20% of the remaining 60% is 12 which rounds to 10). Hope that helps. |
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Posted by: aab3340
Date Posted: January 20th, 2013, 3:06pm |
| Jim and Larry, I also agree that we knew before going on leave we were headed to RVN. I know we left Boston on July 15, 66 but can not recall when we went on leave. I thought it was in June. Even thought I was heavily involved in running convoys bringing our vehicles to be loaded on the ships in Boston I can not remember dates for that. Anybody recall? |
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Posted by: aab3340
Date Posted: January 3rd, 2013, 12:45am |
| How the various Vietnam units were formed. The 196th was the first unit since WWI to do basic and advanced training as a unit. http://www.history.army.mil/books/Lineage/M-F/chapter12.htm |
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Posted by: aab3340
Date Posted: January 2nd, 2013, 11:21pm |
| I don't know the exact date but it was around the time we moved to Chu lai (April 20, 1967) that a good part of the 196th MP Platoon from HHC including NCOs and enlisted men was rotated to the 9th Div. MP Co. These guys were part of the originals from Ft. Devens that came over by ship. Possibly no infantry units were involved in that rotation. |
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Posted by: aab3340
Date Posted: December 21st, 2012, 9:27pm |
| Listing of enemy units by Corp (1965-1972). How and where they built their base camps. Comments on US Operations and what we learned including some of the 196th. Nice information but sort of long. http://alabamavva.org/nvavc/index.html |
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Posted by: aab3340
Date Posted: September 8th, 2012, 1:28pm |
| http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=lRGWUFEeXZw&vq=medium An amazing story of a painter in Texas honoring deceased veterans of the middle east by painting their portraits and displaying them in a gallery. |
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Posted by: aab3340
Date Posted: November 23rd, 2011, 12:46am |
| One Opinion of The Vietnam War http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F67C8yzww_Y&feature=digest |
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Advanced Party From Ft. Devens (reply)
Posted by: aab3340
Date Posted: November 4th, 2011, 11:11pm |
| Bill, Thanks for your reply. At the airstrip was a MP Duty Station which we called the pagoda ( just a roof with two sides enclosed). Do you recall it? We had to log in arriving and departing airplanes there. On the header by the roof was some Vietnamese wording maybe (Troung Tay Ninh). Was this structure part of something for the soccer field? Seems strange to have a Vietnamese sign on a building that we built on a US military base. |
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Advanced Party From Ft. Devens (reply)
Posted by: aab3340
Date Posted: October 30th, 2011, 12:32am |
| Hi Jim This afternoon was looking at the Second Year 196th book and saw it states that an advance planning group left Ft. Devens on 9 July 66 and arrived in Saigon on 12 July 66. This is when they found out our new home would be Tay Ninh West. No other details listed. |
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Advanced Party From Ft. Devens (reply)
Posted by: aab3340
Date Posted: October 29th, 2011, 6:13pm |
| Hi Greg Three enlisted men from the 196th MP Platoon flew advanced party from Ft. Devens direct to RVN, the only one I have contact with is not sure of the date they left Ft. Devens. In the history of 4Th Bn. 31St Inf. it states their advanced party arrived by air on Aug. 6 1966 and met the ships on Aug 15 and flew to Tay Ninh West. My self and other MPs escorted convoys of the 196th vehicles to Tay Ninh from Saigon. I will make another post maybe later about my theory of who built the runway in Tay Ninh West.Thanks for your reply. Bob |
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Posted by: aab3340
Date Posted: October 25th, 2011, 5:51pm |
| Trying to find all details on advanced party what date did they leave Ft. Devens, how many, when did they get to Tay Ninh West, was their equipment waiting for them etc. Thanks |
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VA Benefit Charts (reply)
Posted by: aab3340
Date Posted: September 28th, 2011, 12:24pm |
| Frenchie Using the above percentages of 30% and 20%, the first calcuation is 100-30 = 70%. Then they use the 70% remainder times the second rating of 20% which is 14% which rounds off to only 10% (a number of 0-4 rounds off to 0 a number of 5 or more rounds off to 10), which gives you a rating of 30% + 10% =40%. That is my understanding of the system. Bob Poznanski HHC MP Platoon 1965-67 |
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Posted by: aab3340
Date Posted: August 7th, 2011, 3:02am |
| Jim I agree there are alot of photos mistitled Tay Ninh West Basecamp. Attleboro was over by the end of November 66, one photo showed a large body of water right by the camp if that was Tay Ninh West it was after we went to Chu Lai. Another photo showed trees lined by the side of runway which we did not have. Bob Poznanski HHC MP Platoon 1965-67 |
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A soldier died today (reply)
Posted by: aab3340
Date Posted: May 29th, 2011, 9:48pm |
| Bob, You are correct. Moose should have went home by July 15, 1967, his first extension would have taken him to Jan. 15, 1968. Must have been in the second extension for only 6 weeks. Bob |
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A soldier died today (reply)
Posted by: aab3340
Date Posted: May 29th, 2011, 2:55am |
| Bob I too often think of Sgt. George Mussenden (Moose) Although I was not in country when he died,I served with him about 18 months before my deros. If he had not extended to become a Sgt and left when our year was over would he be alive today? Rest in peace Brother. Bob |
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Posted by: aab3340
Date Posted: April 30th, 2011, 2:45am |
| My contacts with former 25th div. MPs told me that Tay Ninh was placed off llimits in 1968 possibly after tet, not sure when exactly. Somebody in a Command Postion must have thought it was not safe, things change. As you might think there was alot more going on in Tay Ninh than haircuts. I know that was the case when I was there. |
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V A Claims (reply)
Posted by: aab3340
Date Posted: April 29th, 2011, 10:27pm |
| Joe: When I filed my claim, I was luckier than winning the lottery as far as the VA is concerned. Diagnosed with prostate cancer Jan 12, 2009, filed my own claim with the VA. Wanted to make sure I did it right ( went over and over it) did not mail till Feb 9, 2009, that meant no payment for the month of Feb 2009. On Mar 31 2009 got my first direct depoist at 100% Disability, seven weeks from filing. End of April 2009 got an award letter stating what I would get monthly. In June 2009 had seed implants and monthly hormone shots. PSA has been less than .1 for the last 9 months. The important parts to my story. First get checked for Prostate Cancer yearly. Second if you have an illness from the service file a claim as soon as possible d... Click here to read more ... |
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Posted by: aab3340
Date Posted: April 29th, 2011, 4:09pm |
| Jim: You are correct the !st. Bde. 25th Div. did move into the Tay Ninh West basecamp when we went to Chu Lai. When Philcav left in 1969 the 1st Bde. 1st. Cav took over their area of the base. The 25th Military police and the 1st Cav Military Police jointly were responsible for convoy escort, base and town patrol (town was off limits) POW processing and confinement. Bob |
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Posted by: aab3340
Date Posted: April 22nd, 2011, 2:46pm |
| Bob, I went with the advanced party, I read that the move was completed on April 23, 1967 which would mean 3 days, which sounds too short to me. The really heavy stuff like the engineers bulldozers came by boat and did not arrive till June. Being the Bde. was spread out in different locations and moved around alot they probably never had everything set up as good as the Tay Ninh basecamp. Read your private message I left you one awhile ago. Bob |
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Posted by: aab3340
Date Posted: April 20th, 2011, 11:06am |
| On April 20, 1967 we started the move to our new home to form Task Force Oregon leaving our improved base camp in Tay Ninh for a less desirable setting. The only good part was that the originals from Ft. Devens had less that 100 days before we went home. The move took 353 C-130s, transporting 3452 men, 973 vehicles and 8 million pounds of cargo. |
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Where the Hell Is the Darby? (reply)
Posted by: aab3340
Date Posted: February 15th, 2011, 7:09pm |
| Ken, Your correct about the brig being in the front of the ship. I was one of the MPs guarding that guy. I don"t remember how long he was there but he was on a bread and water diet. Some of the MPs brought him food and got caught, don't remember the details but I know we got chewed out about it. It was a little rough up in the front but by then we were in the Pacific Ocean which I remember as a smoother ride than the Atlantic. Jim, You are correct the MP platoon was split with two squads on each ship. The 544th MP platoon did not join us till September 66 in Tay Ninh. |
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