Vietnam Vets-When & Where

[Frank46]

USS Franklin D Roosevelt CVA 42 westpac cruise 66 to 67 and then home. We spent more time below water than a submarine. Most snipes on that ship did. Frank

 

[litenlarry]

1st Recon Bn, 1st Mar Div..DaNang was our rear area..The mountains to the north, northwest, west, southwest and south. were our "playgrounds", circa '69-'70...

 

[CH47gunner]

Phu Loi, in III Corps, 1969-1970. Approx. 30klicks s/west of Long Binh/Ben Hoa & just down Hwy.13 from Di-an.
213th Assault Support Helicopter Company (BlackCats), 1st Aviation Brigade, 12th Combat Aviation Group, 11th Combat Aviation Battalion.

 

[Engine 21]

Never went to NAM, but if any of you went on sick call evenings to the General Leonard Wood Hospital ER in the evening after mess we may have met in 67-68.

Sorry, was there in 63' and 64' - old Little Korea.

 

[wilkoi]

Navy tour in 68 and 69. White shirt (flight deck trouble shooter, launch and recovery, A4 F aircraft) VA-22

 

[Old Seabee]

Vietnam

11/65-2/67 Phu Bai, Hue ,Dong Ha. Seabees MCB -7

 

[mg357]

My uncle Charlie who died i december 2014

Was a United States Army vietnam veteran

he served their with the u.s. army as a vehicle mechanic

was in country from 1964-1965

his full name and rank was

Private First Class

Charles Wallace Linton Senior.

 

[unclebob]

I know that no one here knows me or my family, but Thank You for all you have done for us !!!

 

[ordy]

I was a red shirt with VA-23 aboard the Oriskany (CVA 34) 1969-70. Played as hard as we worked when we got back to the PI.

 

[Bkreutz]

Many different places, '70 & '71. Spent a lot of time at Phu Bai in a experimental op with the ASA det there.

 

[Bill_inBouse]

324th ASD, 145th Avn 1st Avn Brigade "Spartan" heliport Bien Hoa AFB
April 69-Nov 70 Flew out on my 20th birthday after an 18 month tour.

 

[EQGuy]

Never went to NAM, but if any of you went on sick call evenings to the General Leonard Wood Hospital ER in the evening after mess we may have met in 67-68.

We may have met then. I ended up spending the night in the Hospital at Fort Leonard Wood in the Fall of 68 with an upper respiratory infection. I remember the doctor was a really cute captain. I was a PFC at the time. I never made it to Nam either. My overseas tour was in Alaska at Fort Wainwright.

 

[vito]

326 Med Bn, 101st Airborne (Airmobile) Div, Camp Eagle, '70-'71. When I left for RVN my son was 20 months old and my daughter 2 weeks old. He's 46 now and has two kids, she's 44 with 3 kids, and I added three more kids later. Puts that time into some perspective.

 

[eddie68]

I wasn't in Viet Nam, but worked for the 19th Bomb Wing (H) SAC stateside, as enlisted man.

 

[max]

18th MP BDE, HHQ Long Binh 12-69 to 11-70. I was trained as an MP, but my first day in country I was asked if I could type. My dad said never volunteer, but I figured I had nothing to loose at that point. I typed intelligence reports and got to go to the general's daily briefing. It was interesting, 12 hour days, 7 days a week, but it sure beat being out in the jungle. For a couple of weeks we had a pistol "team" and I got to shoot the 1911 some.

 

[OLDNAVYMCPO]

Tonkin Gulf, South China Sea and Perfume River. USS America and USS Constellation, '70 and '72. Bomb director supervisor, Flight Deck Maint Chief. After war became Seabee.

 

[e3mrk]

HQ Btry 3/11 Com. First Marine Division.
I missed going to Nam by a Week,We were getting ready to go and They stopped sending Troops over There.
And I can say that it didn't break My Heart at all.

 

[Oldiron]

The draft board was freely giving away scenic tours of Fort Benning and S.E. Asia in '68 and since I know what pine trees look like I decided to go into the CG.
Was just telling my youngest son last night, while one of the send money to the sandbox vet groups commercials was on, that the nation needs to do a bunch of retro support to the Vietnam vets. It wasn't a popular war but the bullets and blood was real, and I think the ones that were drafted against their wants and wishes deserve a lot of support and praise from the nation.
Era vet but not area vet, Larry

 

[ben_g1]

Long Binh late 69' and early 71' most of 70' was at Fire Base Mace, Black Horse and Yuan-Lux. Also in Cambodia near the parrots beak, during operation Fish Hook (building a portable airstrip)

 

[the ringo kid]

Too young here. The only contribution I ever made--aside from our school who adopted several soldiers and such that we sent cards and candy too--All I ever got to do--was to kick a hippie in his knee when I was about six or seven. Said hippie was protesting the war--and had stationed himself right across the street from where we lived--- at Flato Park--holding a peace sign and chanting something. I was irritated so I ran across the street and kicked him in the knee.