My Time in the Nam

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Bob Mauney - April 20, 2020

Murray…..When were you at Camp Evans? I was there from December 1966 until about the middle to last of February 1967. I think I forgot to tell you that in Dong Ha, I was next to the ammo dump and left Nam about a month or so before it was blown up. A buddy of mine that was there at the time of the explosions said that our company area was destroyed and that 3rd Engineers came over and loaded them on trucks to get them out of the area.

Bill - April 20, 2020

Alpha 2/1? I don’t think so! Alpha would have been 1/1. I was Echo 2/1 for most of my tour and,then H&S for about a month. Bill 0331 68-69

Sgt T.K. Shimono (59- - April 20, 2020

One of my best friends in the Marine Corps was a Corpsman. During off hours we would talk about medical issues and how I as a grunt could take care of wounded Marines, prior to the Medic arriving. Sorry to say, he was killed during the Battle of Hue.

chris wesling - April 20, 2020

My father, a ww2, Korea & vietnam vet served from 1942-1972. Retired as a MGY/SGT ,E-9 always spoke extremely high of navy corpsman, which he always said were as much a marine as he was. SEMPER-FI

Keith settlemire - April 20, 2020

I was with 1/7 all of 69 and part of 70. Alpha 2/1 we loved our corpsman is baldy la Ross hill 55 hill 37 sound familiar.

Bob Mauney - April 20, 2020

Murray, I was with A Co. 3rd Shore Party Bn (Redpatchers). We sent out HST’s (Helicopter Support Teams) with the grunts. At Dong Ha, we were located on the opposite side of the air strip from 3rd Engineers next to the resupply LZ. I was on operation Chinook north of Hue prior to going to Dong Ha. Thuan An was a small Island at the mouth of the Perfume River. At that time the only way we had to shuttle back and forth was on a landing craft during the day. They stopped running at sundown. There was a mortar platoon and bulk fuel there also. We went into Hue and pulled 24 hour shifts unloading LCU’s and at night when not in Hue we pulled guard duty on the Causeway on the mainland where the landing crafts docked to pick up anyone going to and from Thuan An. Or, pulled perimeter guard and different security details.

Bill 0331 - April 20, 2020

Not a big deal Willard but Danang was Quang Nam. Bill 0331 E-2/1 68-69 Bless the “Docs” P.S. Anyone remember the incident near Firebase Ross in 70? Bill

G Willard 0311, 8651, 8511,…. - April 20, 2020

WELL SAID LARRY AND JAMES, well said. If you were Bravo 1/7 in ’67/’69 Doc that would be Hill 55 SW of Danang, Quang Tri, where Carlos Hathcock and John Burke took out “Cobra” with the scope shot and Hathcock took out “Apache” (the female sniper that was the base of a lot of the Marine torture stories – some true, some fiction). I was an 0311/8651 (grunt/Recon) attached to Alpha 1/7 on 55, then 3/7 on 10 in ’69, one of only 2 Tet’s in Vietnam. Had a Corpsman on 10 named Holliday (you got it: we called him Doc Holliday). He loved the children, hated most everyone else except his Marines. Hope he’s still kickin’ it out there. Semper Fi Doc!, Semper Fi!

Murray hermanson - April 20, 2020

Bob, I was with C company 3rd Eng.Bn attached to different grunt units for the booby traps and mines. Was in all those places except Thuan An doesn’t ring a bell. Who were you with? Are rear area was Dong Ha.

Murray hermanson - April 20, 2020

Jim, middle May 67 was on Hickory with H 2/9 just northeast of Con Thien. Two tanks were hit with RPG’s, No balls Mother Fucker and Soul Sause. Soul Sause was a Flame tank. We got some of the crew out alive, one guy his skin was pealing off. He was black but white where his skin was pealing. I always wondered if he made it home. We lost 7 KIA and 12 WIA in that exchange. Might have been your flame Tank.