How Many Viet Nam Vets Here?

[Sully]

From one Nam Vet to another, Welcome Home

 

[Shmick]

don't think I will ever adjust to stateside after the shitwad so called americans made me feel so welcome,
i want to punch anyone that tells me"thanks for your service" , it doesn't seem real since now it is popular to say so. only once has a nam vet told thanks for your service and i replied f--k that, welcome home. he gave me a funny look and said welcome home, i wondered if he had really been there. all the other vets i have run in to said welcome home.

Hey rider1234us:
You managed to sum up what I've felt perfectly. I'm grateful for your way with words. Welcome home, brother!

 

[Catfish]

i wonder how many of us felt like that. I was at camp holloway during the time you were there I suppose you were on artillery hill, made a few trips there while in pleiku. I don't think I will ever adjust to stateside after the ****wad so called americans made me feel so welcome,
i want to punch anyone that tells me "thanks for your service", it doesn't seem real since now it is popular to say so. only once has a nam vet told thanks for your service and i replied f--k that, welcome home. he gave me a funny look and said welcome home, i wondered if he had really been there. all the other vets i have run in to said welcome home.

Close, my main base was below and between two different artillery hills, Camp Schmidt. I spent a lot of time moving between Dak To, Kontum, An Kye, and Quinn Yan. A very close friend of mine spent two tours at Holloway and one at Schmidt, being the 2nd. He was a supply sergeant. We took turns visiting each other every couple of years after his third tour. I gave him his last ride and took him to one last rock concert just a couple of weeks before he passed from cancer a couple years back.

Damn I miss him, he gave me the nick Catfish when we were in Nam, because home was a river town.

 

[rhino 2]

Close, my main base was below and between two different artillery hills, Camp Schmidt. I spent a lot of time moving between Dak To, Kontum, An Kye, and Quinn Yan. A very close friend of mine spent two tours at Holloway and one at Schmidt, being the 2nd. He was a supply sergeant. We took turns visiting each other every couple of years after his third tour. I gave him his last ride and took him to one last rock concert just a couple of weeks before he passed from cancer a couple years back. Damn I miss him, he gave me the nick Catfish when we were in Nam, because home was a river town.

Holloway... Was that called Dragon Mountain back in 66?.... I spent some time in and around there Twice.[Dragon Mountain] I remember Puff clearing the perimeter, Before they put the Auto-Guns in... That was some light show...

 

[Ayatolla of Rockin' Rolla]

And we're still taking casualties from that god forsaken place due to our agent orange exposure!

Just lost an old friend last week due to advanced stages of Parkinsons Disease, 68 yrs old

He Was drafted 6 mos after me.I will deal with cancer every day (in remission now) for the rest of my life

 

[Catfish]

Holloway... Was that called Dragon Mountain back in 66?.... I spent some time in and around there Twice.[Dragon Mountain] I remember Puff clearing the perimeter, Before they put the Auto-Guns in... That was some light show...

I believe you are thinking of Camp Enari and Holloway was another landing zone south. Holloway is the only existing base today in that area. It is a Vietnamese Army base. To be positive I'd need to research, but that is what I remember reading sometime past.
When I wasn't driving a 5-ton humping ammo, I was guarding ammo depots and maintaining inventories. It provided considerable time thinking about home and screwing with your head. I just feel blessed that I'm alive today and can talk about that period detached from anger. No place to go and nothing I can do so I just keep riding the wind of freedom.

 

[rhino 2]

I believe you are thinking of Camp Enari and Holloway was another landing zone south. Holloway is the only existing base today in that area. It is a Vietnamese Army base. To be positive I'd need to research, but that is what I remember reading sometime past.

I was there [Dragon Mt.] before Lt Mark Enari was KIA...He was the first 4Th Div. officer KIA.
So they decided to name the camp after him...

 

[Catfish]

Holloway... Was that called Dragon Mountain back in 66?.... I spent some time in and around there Twice.[Dragon Mountain] I remember Puff clearing the perimeter, Before they put the Auto-Guns in... That was some light show...

Yes, I saw that as I've quoted, but I don't think that was Holloway even though I never spent any time there and I bet it was some light show. Being wrong as often as I'm right has been a part of my life since I can remember. :AGGHH: I was a draftee and only spent 19 months in service. 12 months and four days in Nam and processed out as a civilian. The first 7 months were spent in basic at Fort Bliss on Logan Heights, three months at Fort Drum, the rest in Fort Knox. From Nam to home all in the same week. You have my respect.

 

[rjaykay]

Welcome home Brothers and Sisters

12th EVAC 25th Inf 66-67. I would do it again! Proud to have served.

 

[slickrick]

Veitnam 69/70 USN

USN

 

[Chuck Knopf]

1970 to 1971 Phu Bai

Quite a few stories when I returned , also . None good . Puff was a real thrill to watch working.

I was there from July '69 to Jun '70 US Army with the 101st Airborne stationed at Camp Eagle between Hue and Phu Bai. I was lucky, a Radar O'Riley type of sorts. Things were different then, we weren't looked at as heros but rather the scum of the earth when we got home. I'll never forget after I got home to Buffalo NY I flew down to Philadelphia to be with my Fiance and thought she would like to see me in uniform, so I did just that. When she saw me her look spoke volumes! She tried to recover and asked me why I was in uniform when I was discharged, and asked me If I wanted to change. I don't think she even kissed me right away, and it was obvious she was ashamed to be with me.

It has taken me up to just a couple of years ago to come to grips with all of it, and sure don't feel like any kind of hero. Better men than I didn't get to come home.

As of this year I am now a lifetime member of the VFW and a member of the American Legion as well, but am not active with either. To me it's just a cheap place to get drunk, but hopefully as I do get involved that outlook will change.

I am currently 60% disabled thanks to exposure to agent orange and type 2 diabeties and am trying to be declared 100% as I was sort of forced to retire last fall because of the increased discomfort of periferal neuropathy in both feet and hands.

So that's my story and I'm sticking to it! What's yours???

 

[rhino 2]

Quite a few stories when I returned , also . None good . Puff was a real thrill to watch working.

I agree.. Some i tell.... But most i'm taken to my grave....:cxtv:

 

[xlor8]

I was there

1st infantry 3bg Lai Kai Feb1966 to Nov 1967...

 

[Sully]

 

[grunt67]

vietnam Vet

Sept 2, 1969 to Sept 1, 1970 with Charlie Company 3/8 4th Infantry Div. Cambodia May 6, 1970

 

[rhino 2]

Sept 2, 1969 to Sept 1, 1970 with Charlie Company 3/8 4th Infantry Div. Cambodia May 6, 1970

Dragoons......I was with them At Lewis 65.. Nam 66/67....At that time we had to stay at least 2 clicks from Cambodian border......Orders from the 3 Stooges..
Johnson..Macmera..Westmoreland..

 

[Ret1SG]

Sept 2, 1969 to Sept 1, 1970 with Charlie Company 3/8 4th Infantry Div. Cambodia May 6, 1970

I also made that trip into Cambodia, traveling as a RTO to the FO for a ARVN Mech Unit. It was a 3 week raid for our trip.

 

[grunt67]

vietnam Vet

Thank You for your service. I made good friends there some I still have contact with them. enjoy life, it too short!

 

[Sully]

the-ultimate-vietnam-war-quiz

 

[rhino 2]

32 Outa 35......Coulda done better if i had more time to study... I hate pop quizzes :gah:

 

[Catfish]

32/35 here also. I missed the song by Country Joe McDonald, number of deserters, and the year ground operations started. :Shrug:

 

[Old Man Zzzz]

US Navy; Sep 67 - Sep 87; Stationed onboard USS FOX DLG-33, provided support off Yankee station, 5" gun support and SAR support.

 

[rhino 2]

US Navy; Sep 67 - Sep 87; Stationed onboard USS FOX DLG-33, provided support off Yankee station, 5" gun support and SAR support.

I was on the coast and on one patrol..[Army 66.].. And a ship... I guess it was a destroyer :Shrug: let loose with their 5'' guns over our heads... Very impressive.. And dead on i might add...ThumbUp

 

[Sully]

My state ( Georgia ) just came out with a Veteran Tag for Motorcycles. ThumbUp

 

[Phu Cat]

Entirely TOO cool.

PC

 

[jeyoung]

DaNang August 1971to July 1972. US Army 196th LIB. Carried M-60 for 9months then the Green Machine, RTO for the Captain for about 2 months. Earned the CIB, Air Metal and Army Accommodation Metal. They couldn't kill me but the Agent Orange is trying. Turned 21 while in the bush.

James Young :cxtv:

 

[rhino 2]

DaNang August 1971to July 1972. US Army 196th LIB. Carried M-60 for 9months then the Green Machine, RTO for the Captain for about 2 months. Earned the CIB, Air Metal and Army Accommodation Metal. They couldn't kill me but the Agent Orange is trying. Turned 21 while in the bush.

James Young :cxtv:

Yep... I carried the Prick 25....[66] I wonder if you did the same as i... When a resupply came in with new battery's [Too much weigh to carry] everyone wanted the plastic bags they came in.. So i made a deal if they carried the extra battery when i need it i would bayonet the old one toss it, And put a new one in and they would keep the bag.ThumbUp

 

[grunt67]

vietnam Vet

this is for jeyoung that served with the 196 LIB. My brother Richard Rocha also served April 71 until Tricky Dick brought him home with the 196 LIB. He was point man, and once or twice went into tunnels. He trying to find some of his bodies. As many Vets he remember their handle not their real name. This is a wild shot so I m hoping you serve with him and remember him. His wife threw all his photos away when they divorce. Thank You for your service and welcome HOME!

grunt69 4th ID

 

[jeyoung]

this is for jeyoung that served with the 196 LIB. My brother Richard Rocha also served April 71 until Tricky Dick brought him home with the 196 LIB. He was point man, and once or twice went into tunnels. He trying to find some of his bodies. As many Vets he remember their handle not their real name. This is a wild shot so I m hoping you serve with him and remember him. His wife threw all his photos away when they divorce. Thank You for your service and welcome HOME!

grunt69 4th ID

The name does not ring a bell, but my memory ain't what it use to be. I was with Co.B 2nd/1st !96th, 4th platoon, 1st squad. Our rear base was on the west side of DaNang.

I was there from Aug.

1971 till end of July 1972 when we stood down and came home. The only tunnel I went in was in the hills that surrounded DaNang and once in it turned into caves that was a NVA hospital.

 

[grunt67]

The name does not ring a bell, but my memory ain't what it use to be. I was with Co.B 2nd/1st !96th, 4th platoon, 1st squad. Our rear base was on the west side of DaNang. I was there from Aug. 1971 till end of July 1972 when we stood down and came home. The only tunnel I went in was in the hills that surrounded DaNang and once in it turned into caves that was a NVA hospital.

Thanks for the fast reply, he was there during your tour. He was with Charlie Company, also in the west side of DaNang. Again Welcome "Home"