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Wonder what NVA & Charlie thought of 'rats.
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New book, also Viet Nam era NGUYEN CHARLIE by Corky Trinidad. I bought this book while in country many many moons ago! Enjoy....!
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I was at the Bob Hope show, Christmas of 1965, at the SeaBee base, Hill 327, just north of DaNang, and then, Christmas of 1967, Midway Island. Bob Hope was a great patriot
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An hour later you're hungry again?
Note the bullet holes in the cockpit door. We kept a red grease pencil to circle the shrapnel/bullet holes for the attention of our maintenance folks. Most were obvious enough not to need the red markings
I was amused that the family name came first (Nguyen), then the given name.
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Remember one of our guys throwing some rations out the back of a Duce and a Half to some kids. One can was ham and limas, kid that grabbed it yelled,” you numba 10 GI” when he saw what it was. The Orphans were the saddest, wonder what happened to all of them?I often wonder about a few ARVN Officers I knew, gave one my Gerber knife.
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Don't remember if I poster these pics outside an orphanage or not. Any way. this kid was troopin' the line of hueys hustling cigarettes. The rest of them stayed inside the wire.
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This is the format of the book NGUYEN CHARLIE. How many had a pair of Ho Chi Minh Sandals?
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Don't forget Michelin. They grew the rubber trees they hid in.
I had a pair but sold them a few years ago. The straps are made from inner tubes and the sole are...well you know.
Highway 13 (AKA Thunder Road) going up through a Michelin plantation. That's a lot of rubber trees.
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Should have kept mine. Probably collectible. Tossed mine out.
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Ho sandals are very collectable. I missed a huge opportunity to get any VC or NVA uniforms/ gear about a month before DEROS. 2 ARVN officers came into our area we were closing and said they had any kind of VC/ NVA stuff they would trade for air conditioners or evaporator coolers. We told them “ help yourselves”, we got in our jeeps and headed to MACV annex . Wish had “ traded”. Hindsight is always 20/20.
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Ho sandals are very collectable. I missed a huge opportunity to get any VC or NVA uniforms/ gear about a month before DEROS. 2 ARVN officers came into our area we were closing and said they had any kind of VC/ NVA stuff they would trade for air conditioners or evaporator coolers. We told them “ help yourselves”, we got in our jeeps and headed to MACV annex . Wish had “ traded”. Hindsight is always 20/20.
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We, Jarheads, would have killed for air conditioners/evaporators!
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This seems to go with the previous conversations.
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Yea, get them where it hurts !! Our generator was a favorite target, especially on Sunday when the hooch maids had their day off. Some of the girls were pretty good at providing coordinates.
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Yea, get them where it hurts !! Our generator was a favorite target, especially on Sunday when the hooch maids had their day off. Some of the girls were pretty good at providing coordinates.
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Reminds me of this: There was cement factory on the civilian side of the wire at Da Nang, It had a tall gantry and I was on guard on the post about 100 yards away also in a tower, I saw a couple of guys hiding in the tower and observing the Flight Line. Called it in and awaited orders, keeping them in my sights the whole time. The Guard Officer came on the line and refuesed permission to fire. He told me that they were sending "Mobile 2-7" to investigate. "Mobile 2-7" was Air Police and that drove a jeep reminiscent of Rat Patrol. They came with lights flashing and of course the two guys di-di'd.
About three hours later we got hit, in the area they had been observing!
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Some of our offices had AC or evaporator coolers. As our Group stood down the remaining detachments “ inherited” lots of equipment, vehicles even few nice guns( grease guns , M-60’s and M-2’s).
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Wonder if that ever happened?
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I doubt it, but after packing all that stuff I hope he had room for at least a basic load.
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Have seen guys throwing them like this!
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Now I know where they got the character from Family Guy.
I don't think I ever saw an over weight soldier in Vietnam.
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Was there a welcome station? Free maps?
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Were there farmers there? I thought all in black PJ's were VC!?!
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I remember hearing about "Pink Elephants" when I was at Da Nang from the OV-10 Drivers. Seems the elephants were crossing a river and had churned up a bunch of red clay. When the water/clay mixture dried they looked pink. That is my story and I am sticking to it.
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What memories, read about the pink elephants. They used whatever they could to move stuff south. Shame SOG units were not given “ free rein” to hinder the trail traffic.
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Our aircraft flew the trails almost every night. Usually loaded with 28 500 Lbs bombs. On a good night they would get secondary explosions, meaning the had hit something for sure. Can remeber one crew getting 18 secondaries. A lot of foot and bicycle traffic was taken out too. Our aircrew had a patch for their flight suits that said "Laotian Highway Patrol".
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Heard there were “ other devices” that would have ruined their days/ nights. Bombing restrictions in certain areas were just plain stupid.
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Don't shoot the Water Buffalo!
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My one brother was on the carrier Hancock, he said the film on one plane showed the pilot lighting up a fully loaded elephant. The pilot got an elephant on the side of his plane to go with a jet he had shot down
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“They” would rather have some of them shot than the water buffaloes. We were told Never hit one with vehicles, wheeled or track , forget what the payout was. We had several contact teams that went to S.F. and other compounds. One guy actually killed a buff with a M-79, IIRC he got article 15.
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Didn't have elephants in III/IV CTZ but lots of water buffalo. My last mission was to go up into II CTZ to look for the 1st Cav CG. (He was already dead, flew into a mountain side) The 3 gun ships we had with us were told to rocket any elephants with pack marks on them.
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There were plenty of tunnels over there. Have read that some were retty elaborate.
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Don't get me started on that subject. "The Tunnels of Cu Chi" might be an interesting read. The Cu Chi base camp (home of my Bn HQ) was built on top of a large existing tunnel complex.
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either lead follow or get out of the way. (don't have to be crazy to be point,but it helps)
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I can imagine that aviation assets were used for some friviolous things.......
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Bug juice? Most resupply missions I flew were ammo, water and food, in that order. No telling what was snuck in with the good stuff. If you wanted to see the grunt's eyes light up, land with a couple mermite cans of hot chow.
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Cu Chi, Home of the 269th CAB, 25th ID, etc. Top center. Saigon is bottom right. Just come out of the big city, NW on Highway 1. You can't miss it. Excuse the condition of the map. It got carried a lot 53 years ago.
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I was south of Saigon, down on the Mekong at a little village Vinh Long. I hadn't heard that there were tunnels under the base at Cu Chi. 7/1 Air Cav. Assigned to 1st Aviation Brigade.
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While at ITR on the grenade range, there was a kid who threw the grenade stiff arm. It went straight up with an ever so slight arc. It came down in front of the bunker. The instructor shoved the guy down and and got next to the bunker wall. The kid got a royal reaming and was shown how to throw a grenade.
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The kid should have been shown how to throw it BEFORE being given a live one. I know we threw dummies before we got close to a live one. Also I remember remember being show the correct way to open the packing container so we could confirm the pin was intact before removing the grenade.
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