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- Bar Girls at 11th. Marines
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I believe we served at An Hoa together in 1969, so I am sending a picture of the bar girls that I have. I picked out a few other pictures that may look familiar to you. There are 2 pictures of a Marine named Ray receiving his NCO stripes, arms and legs, that should bring back memories. I wonder if they still do that. There are a couple of pictures of me with scrapnel and a midwife at the orphanage I spent a lot of time at. The rest are …
Read More - Teaching Vietnam
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Dear Sgt. Grit, For the last ten years I have been asked to give a talk about Vietnam to history classes. A few years ago a teacher told me her class was reading "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien and wondered if I could talk to her students and give them a little better understanding of what they were reading. I developed a power point presentation I called : The Things We (Really) Carried. Since I had purchased 782 gear when my boys were in scouting, I brought in …
Read More - III MAF Press Center
- Beginning July 1969 I served at the Press Center across the river from III MAF HQ. Lived in the compound until Mach 70. Served with a S/Sgt named Dale Dye who is now a big time technical advisor and actor in many recent big screen movies. I reunited with Dale (Big Daddy DA) again in about 1985 in Malibu at a friend of ours Gary Sheppard's home, who was working for ABC in LA. LIke DA would say it was ablast from the past. Lots of good memories when I was "one of his …
Read More - ROCKPILE
- I was in Camp Carroll from 1966 to 1967 also spent some time on the Rockpile. My nickname Rockape.
- Photos from Vietnam
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Here's a couple of the photos. I think the girl on the left is the girl you said got married. Joe
- 1st night in country & bud at the club
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Another FNG story, I reported in country and was picked up by 7th Comm. when we arrived I reported in and the gunny showed me an area to rack out and stow my gear and that it was late so after a quick orientation on what to do in the event of Rockets etc. he told me to go to the E club for a beer and we would finish checkin the next AM. So after I got my gear in line I went up to the club (pic attached) …
Read More - Soggy Welcome
- I arrived at Danang on the Marine Corps birthday in 1968. There was a steady rain falling. We FNG's made our way to the Transit Barracks, and passed by a table, with a half eaten cake, covered by a wind blown canopy. Once inside we chose our bunks and waited to be assigned to our Units. An E5 approached me and asked that I get three buddies for a "detail". He then told the four of us to grab our ponchos and he handed us two broom handles. He then …
Read More - Memories of Vietnam and Labels of ARVN cigs and rum
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Sgt. Grit, Just wanted to check in and say how much I enjoy the Thursday letter; (it makes my week) and also the pictures. The personal stories and pictures bring back so many memories. I was with 3rd MAR.DIV., Hqs. Bn., Comm. Co., Rad. Rel. Plt. Which meant I was T.A.D. most of the time, so I was located from Quang Tri to Vandergrif ,with the 4th Mar., and 3rd Mar. Regt’s. Back at Dong Ha we were close to the ARVN unit that I think, if I remember right, …
Read More - Vietnam Memorabilia
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Sarge Here are three cover page only scans of some humorous books I got while in Vietnam back in 1970. Later time permitting will send some photos of the area and of some Marines I served with. maybe they will see themselves, and remember when! also you can forward email to me. Semper Fi. Choo Choo Sgt of Marines (NLA) 1968-1974 RVN 70-71
- Hill 55 and Liberty Road
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1966 / 67, Hill 55 south of DaNang in the background. We were starting our morning mine sweep. I was a combat engineer with c/1/26. This 1.5 mile stretch this side of the river (Song Thu Bon River in background) was called Liberty Road. We swept it every morning to open it up for resupply traffic out to An Hoa. We had a squad of engineers and a squad of grunts split on each flank and also a tank. That day I was driving the mule. We rotated …
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