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February 18, 2019 Grunt.com Admin

TET 69 Secrets

It have been 50 years since the 69 Tet offensive and now i ca finaly tell the truth about my service in the Marines.It is now declassified. On Feb 1 1969 i just finished my scout sniper training at Stone Bay Camp Lajune and was home enjoying 20 day leave when I got a call to return to HQ 2nd Recon. Once I arrived I was sent right away to a secret location near Onslo Beach.The only thing we were told was that we were shipping out to an undiclosed location. We were all issued a M-21 sniper rifle and loaded onto cattlecars.The next stop was Cherry point airbase. We were loaded onto C-130 cargo planes and imediatly took off About 10hours later under the cover of darkness we landded at Danag airbase in South Veitnam and were loaded onto covered trucks but still did not know where we were going. Finaly we were at our destiation Hue city. We were told to lock and load and to set up firing positions aroundd the city andd to shoot anyboby tring to leave the city.We were ther for about a week and lost Marines and We were then sent back to Danag again under the cover of darkness and told to never speak about waht we did.All any body need to know was we were on a training mission and the guys we lost were just lost None of us got any medals or nothing. I think I need a drink.
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Comments

G Willard MOS’s 0311, 8651 (now 0321), 8511, NCOIC PA - April 21, 2020

If the Harry and Herman show is out there, HANG THIS CLOWN! Took me a whole day to stop laughing. VEItnam? Danag? Onslo? Secret location? Where? Nothing but sand once you crossed the bridge. Good Lord. Think this guy fell asleep “sniping” squirrels in the woods after drinking a gallon of home brew, and this is what he came up with. About the only things he had right was there was an M21 Sniper rifle (modified M14 7.62mm) – but that was predominantly an Army weapon and possibly used by Carlos Hathcock’s “A” man, John Burke – and a Tet offensive in 1969, mostly focused around military installations around Danang and Saigon. That was what prompted Nixon to order the bombardment of PAVN and VC strongholds in Cambodia. Original Tet was in 1968, but there was indeed a Tet offensive launched by the PAVN and VC in Feb 1969 (see Tet 1969); I came out of that one with 2 AK hits, 2 Purple Hearts, and a stretcher ride back to Millington (Memphis) Tn.

Bob - April 21, 2020

Danag? It was between Fu By and Chew Lye.

Lonnie King - April 21, 2020

Anyone know where Danag was ? I don’t remember that one Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa !

Bill Jackson - April 21, 2020

Sounds like the stories you here at the VA from non service connected Veterans.

John Vaughn (61/65) - April 21, 2020

This story is very clearly BS so I won’t another comment but will once again ask that the Editor of this News Letter go back to the format that the real Sgt Grit used. It was much more user friendly. I still check it weekly but not with the excitement that I use to have.

Tom Harrison - April 21, 2020

Hue City was also from late January until early March of 1968. Not only is he a lying wannabe, but also poor in History or researching data.

Tom Harrison - April 21, 2020

Not buying it. No one stationed at Camp Lejeune or learned about Gen. John A. Lejeune would forget how to spell Lejeune, Onslow, or Danang. This guy is either a wannabe, guilty of Stolen Valor, or both.Already enough veteran snipers in country or at Pendleton or Okinawa to handle the task. We would never transport newbies when veterans are close and ready. Bet the guy is another one of those “Almost joined the Marine Corps”.

Don Cossey 63-69 6413/MAG 26 - April 21, 2020

Roger that on the BS Scanner…I was a winger and it would take a C-130 almost that long to go from the point to El Toro back in the day..Don’t it make you mad when a low lift tries to act like a Marine on the back’s of us real Marines…

Jim Praytor 1965-69 21472## - April 21, 2020

Sgt. Grit definitely needs a BS Scanner.

David B. McClellan 3/5 1st MarDiv ’69-’70 RVN USMC - April 21, 2020

This moron HAD to be at Woodstock in 1969 and this story is his LSD trip on a Flying Carpet through the Purple Haze of Time. I wish these wanna be hero’s would find a real cause to pursue instead of pissing on the memory of the True Hero’s of the Vietnam War whose names are forever inscribed in the cold, hard, black granite in Washington, D.C. As a Vietnam Veteran and a Combat Marine I take it personally the attempts by these cowards to insert themselves into a brotherhood/sisterhood of Veterans who earned the respect they are trying to steal. Semper Fi and God Bless America.

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