A couple of pics of me in the late 60's on an old WW2 submarine, the Seafox, one in port & one off the coast of Nam in 1970 Mike Neptune on the right me on the left. More stuff if you are interested-
Not only was I in Da Nang, but in Phu Bai, Dong Ha and Hue. Not actually operated inside the places named but on the out skirts.
Of course I did visit.
I was in the 3rd Recon Div., H&S Co. , I was a field radio operator, 2531 MOS.
Based mainly at Regimental headquarters but our company was located right below Gen. Westmoreland"s bunker.
My brother, on the left, and the neibor kid to the right..
He grew up two houses away..
They are geting ready, for a ride into the Happy Valley..
Over the next 5 day's, there outfit would win a Unit Citation..
I allway's looked at this pic as,"Two Michigan Boy's Going Hunting.."
Joined the LANG, 156 Inf in 1948 while I was in high school. When I was a Sr, the Korean War broke out and I was a Squad Leader in a Machine Gun Squad.
Took an Honorable Discharge from LANG, joined Army, 11th Airborne Division and served 3 years as a Paratrooper. Did not make it to Korea and did most of my time in Artillery and later working in Military Training Schools of various sorts.
As a footnote, got GED in Army, finished high school, went to college on the GI Bill, graduated, did graduate work at two different Universities and retired at the ripe old age of 56. Taught at Jr College part time a few years and have not worked since.
Will be 75 in a few months and am going strong. Like to shoot BR 22 RF and occasionally pistols.
Will look for some period pictures, black and white in those days.
just a quick reminder for all the vets out there...
if you were in prior to '92, you are at a very elevated risk of having hepatitis C... seems we were right about not trustin those blood drenched airguns we got shots with in basic....
also, some of the gammaglobulin shots were contaminated with the virus also
there is also quite a bit of speculation that some of the overseas shots we got were contaminated also...
the VA itself admits that 1/2 of the vietnam era vets using the VA hospitals are infected...
get tested!
cletus
ps: you can get free testing by donating blood at the red cross
A buddy of mine's dad was killed in Vietnam, he was a Mohawk pilot. I had never heard of the aircraft before I met him. They have a picture of his dad someone just happened to snap of him as he was preflighting his ship before his last flight. I read the western union his mom got, it read that he was missing in action on a military mission over North Vietnam & then about a week later they got another that read, "We're sorry to inform you that your husband Capt. Jerry White was killed on a military mission over North Vietnam"
I've always thought the way they worded those messages was sort of cold; maybe it was because he was on intelligence gathering missions that they were worded the way they were. I don't know; but she said there was no warning, no clergy, just a messenger boy who said, "have a nice day" when he left.
My older brother went in the navy about '65. He ended up a corpsman with 1st Marines, Viet Nam. I went in the Marine Corps and wound up on an aircraft carrier. The USS Midway.
That's an S60 -- a 57mm anti-aircraft gun the Iraqis left behind when they exited stage left from the Mother of All Battles. Behind me is a self-propelled 122mm howitzer that was also abandoned.
Ill take a brief moment away from all the nice pictures to say:
THANK YOU ALL for serving our country, weather by choice or not (some vietnam soldiers), I know I am thankfull for all of you fighting for the USA.
I wanted to go into the Airforce and be a pilot when I was almost done with highshcool, but due to being born with a heart murmer the recruiter told me I wouldnt pass the medical check (even though the heart murmer has never held me back from any physical activity). I still have 20/10 vision as well
This is a great read, and an outstanding way to pay tribute to those who have served. Well done, all of you! A buddy of mine just finished reading a book about four Navy Seals who were overpowered in Afghanistan, but they went down taking out far more than our enemy ever imagined I am sure. Thank-you just isn't enough for the risks, the time spent away from family, and the ultimate sacrifice that so many of our finest have made for this country but Thank-you and Happy New Year. God bless the United States of America!
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