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Da Nang PX

I remember it well also it was at the foot off Hill-327. I spent many sundays trucking Marines to the PX and Beer Garden there. Had more than a few there myself and even met one of my drill instructors there. The thing that I remember the most about the beer garden is that it was huge and always full of service personel from all branches and we all had to check our weapons in at the door. Also a great place to appropriate a new jeep or 5 ton from the Army to give the mechanics something to paint MC green and put new TAC marks on.

Jim
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Patrick McBride - March 27, 2020

In reply to Y Hodge.
Appropriation is the best nation to be from when your deployed. When I was in Somalia before Blackhawk down happened, we would get our MRE’s and a little extra when the supply guys were not looking. We never got caught and enjoyed the large tins of food that were meant for the chow hall but found our stomachs first. SEMPER FI to all who earned the title.

Bill Allen - March 27, 2020

No PX, No R&R, No Beer Gardens, No USO. Danang was a blip in the night leaving Vietnam in the early morning hours on a Pan Am flight for El Toro, late November 1966. LCpl Allen 1/5, Hill 54

Gordon - March 27, 2020

We also acquired vehicles and other “stuff” from the Army. Some bigwigs were coming to visit one time so someone decided we should hide the extras even though they were painted and numbered. Of course the numbers didn’t match anything in our books. We hid them by taking them for a tour, just driving around “some place else”. Gordon 2/12/3MarDiv

Frank Walker (SSgt, CWO3, Capt, USMC(Ret)), RVN 67-68 - March 27, 2020

Made it to the PX once. Don’t remember the beer garden but do remember the USO or was it the Red Cross place to the side of the PX with nice looking round eyes passing out coffee, soft drinks and snacks. Heard rumors that there was a Division sanctioned massage parlor there also. I’m sure that because Marines have such high moral standards massages were all that were performed.there. With all the Army units new in country it was a good shopping place for other things. I rode a gun truck to the PX filled with other battalion people . Left with a new barrel for my Ma Duce. Always wondered what the dogface thought when he found an almost smooth bore barrel on this brand new Duce.

L/cpl T. davis - March 27, 2020

Went to Freedom hill PX don’t remember a beer garden I remember the round eyes doughnut dolly’s had a buddy in MP valley just up the road they had a EM club there also a good mess hall on the hill 1st Mar Div 1970

Donald [sonny] Key 68-72 - March 27, 2020

In reply to Frank Walker (SSgt, CWO3, Capt, USMC), RVN 67-68.
He probably never found out or notice any different`s in how it shot lol

GYSGT J Duerrwaechter - March 27, 2020

Been there many times from HQ.III MAF . 1969-70.

BRENDAN MCCARRON - March 27, 2020

LIKE A LOT OF THE OTHER GUY’S COMMENTS I ALSO DO NOT REMEMBER A BEER GARDEN. IF THERE WAS I SURE WOULD HAVE VISTED MORE OFTEN. I DO REMEMBER A USO WITH A RED CROSS. THEY WOULD SELL US A 4 PACK OF CIGARETTS FOR A BUCK. THEY WERE GIVEN THE PACKS FOR FREE. STILL DO NOT LIKE THEM. NOW THEY SELL THE FREE BLOOD THAT’S DONATED. THEY ALSO TOLD A FRIEND ABOUT HIS FATHER’S DEATH 2 WEEKS AFTER IT HAPPENED. I WAS THERE FOR 19 MONTHS SO I SURE WOULD KNOW ABOUT IT. I WAS THERE 1965 TO 1967 WITH THE 1ST MAW. SEMPER FI GUYS.

Dan - March 27, 2020

Interesting to hear about the Red Cross’s antics from Brendan McCarron, as I worked with a guy that was a World War ll army combat vet on Okinawa. He hated the Red Cross because of the very same thing- charging for cigarettes.

Mike Koontz - March 27, 2020

I remember the DaNang PX. I got there a few times when I was assigned to guard the new 3rd MAF headquarters being built on the DaNang River, at an old French fort, across from the city. There was a ferry landing there and when we were off duty we got to take into town. I was standing in line in the PX one day, it looked like lines at a grocery store in the “World”, and I looked over at the line next to mine and there was Martha Raye! She was about seventh in line. I was floored! she could have asked to go to the front of any line in the place and the troops would have accommodated her gladly! She was so real that she just waited her turn like everyone else. I liked her before that but when I saw that I idolized her. I didn’t say anything to her. I wanted to leave her space. No one else was talking to her either. I’ve always regretted that I didn’t say something to her. What a great lady!! She really supported her troops!! As a post script the NCO in charge of our detail at the old French fort was Mike Beardsley. Some of you may remember the movie “Yours, Mine and Ours” with Henry Fonda and Lucille Ball. That was about his family. Back at Pendleton before the war he and his family used to come on TV in commercials for bread and we used to razz him. I think it was “Silver Cup”.

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