Padre Posted August 16, 2018 Share Posted August 16, 2018 Yes Sir: 1971-1991 Sergeant FIrst Class US Army (Retired) 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted August 16, 2018 Share Posted August 16, 2018 1963 - 1965, 5th inf div. Ft. Carson, weapons squad Sgt. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmcbeat Posted August 17, 2018 Share Posted August 17, 2018 Army, 1969-1970, 17th Combat Aviation Group 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted August 17, 2018 Share Posted August 17, 2018 (edited) When I got the first GG shot an old Bos'n mate told me to "be sure and work that arm good right away". I did, and it didn't bother me any more than any other shot. He was right. Edited August 17, 2018 by janice6 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramjet38 Posted August 24, 2018 Author Share Posted August 24, 2018 On 7/18/2018 at 11:12 PM, Pax said: Mobile Riverine Force, Mekong Delta Have a couple of friends that were brown water Navy. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramjet38 Posted August 24, 2018 Author Share Posted August 24, 2018 On 8/17/2018 at 5:27 PM, janice6 said: When I got the first GG shot an old Bos'n mate told me to "be sure and work that arm good right away". I did, and it didn't bother me any more than any other shot. He was right. Had mine in the ass and they marched us for about two hours afterwards and it helped immensely. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usnret Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 Was in USN flight school from Jan 1973 till wings June 1974(Fighters, F-4)..before the war ended, most guys went to Pacific fleet..I expected same but no soap as VN fell in 1975.. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted January 13, 2019 Share Posted January 13, 2019 No Viet Nam Veteran. However, I was in a squadron of 5 Minesweepers (Ocean) in the Mediterranean with the 6th Fleet. We got orders to go home to Charleston, SC in 1959. Two of us in the squadron went West to home. The three remaining ships went East through the Suez to Viet Nam. They didn't get back to the states for a few years. Then they got stationed in CA. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Citra47 Posted January 14, 2019 Share Posted January 14, 2019 (edited) Duplicate Edited January 14, 2019 by Citra47 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TXUSMC Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 (edited) Became a Marine on December 21, 1974. The Marines who taught me to be a Marine were all infantry officers and sergeants who had served several tours of combat in Vietnam. The credit for anything I did well in the next 20 years belongs to them. Edited January 15, 2019 by TXUSMC 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moshe Posted March 12, 2019 Share Posted March 12, 2019 My father was. But, he has computer phobia. You won't find him on one without supervision or under protest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted March 12, 2019 Share Posted March 12, 2019 (edited) 23 minutes ago, Moshe said: My father was. But, he has computer phobia. You won't find him on one without supervision or under protest. I'm a computer user. My son has a couple of degrees, one is in Computer Science, he keeps trying to teach me digital systems. I keep telling him I don't care to know anything about "logical processes", I'm an analog engineer. Edited March 12, 2019 by janice6 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NPTim Posted March 12, 2019 Share Posted March 12, 2019 To all the Vietnam Vets, welcome home. I wish with all my heart that y’all had come back to the hero’s welcome you deserved. I was too young at the time and oblivious. God bless you all. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pistolay Posted March 12, 2019 Share Posted March 12, 2019 On 7/7/2018 at 3:40 PM, willie-pete said: The gamma globulin was the worst. Jeez, you got that right! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuitarmanNick Posted March 24, 2019 Share Posted March 24, 2019 USAF '73-'78. Served in R.E.D. H.O.R.S.E units 823, and 554 primarily in Florida, Korea, and the P.I. with a couple of TDY's to exotic places and loaned to sister unit 555 that I would rather forget. Might have been the M-60 training. Aided in the evacuation of critical personnel and resettlement of South Vietnamese refugees during the pull out among other things. Damn, that was a lifetime ago! 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saltwater Posted March 24, 2019 Share Posted March 24, 2019 USN 65 - 67; VR-21 NAS Barbers Point on some little island in the Pacific ....... I think it was called Oahu. 67-68 USS Hancock, CVA-19 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt Longmire Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 Not me. Nixon stopped the draft before they got to my number. Knew lots of friends and relatives that went. Some never came back (alive). Guy from our little podunk logging town was the LONGEST HELD MARINE there. The only guys held longer were Air Force. He was in captivity over 2500 days. Sgt Richard Burgess. Escaped twice and was recaptured. He has some stuff online that he wrote about. Look him up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 The draft was a fact in my youth. I volunteered to go into active service so I could ensure my specialty rather than leave it to chance. I had a great time in service. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pfigment Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 69th Engineering Battalion, Can Tho, 1968, for about a month until I was asked to and volunteered to help build and rebuild A team camps for Company D 5th Special Forces. Took a lot of schidt for being a “leg”, but it was much better than putting up with regular army bull schidt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GT4494 Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 No but as a child (10 in '68) we would go out to the base hospital in Japan and visit with the guys that were in such bad shape they needed rehab before they would put them on an medivach flight back to the states. Made a huge impression on me. I will retire from my vocation in March (40 years in the Navy FBM program) and that will be the first time in my life that I will need an escort to go on a Military Installation. Seen a lot and done a lot with the active duty folks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted January 12, 2020 Share Posted January 12, 2020 (edited) 4 hours ago, GT4494 said: No but as a child (10 in '68) we would go out to the base hospital in Japan and visit with the guys that were in such bad shape they needed rehab before they would put them on an medivach flight back to the states. Made a huge impression on me. I will retire from my vocation in March (40 years in the Navy FBM program) and that will be the first time in my life that I will need an escort to go on a Military Installation. Seen a lot and done a lot with the active duty folks. Congratulations to you for a fine career! Thank you. One of my Grand Daughters husband just retired as a Master Chief and will be home for good in a few months. Edited January 12, 2020 by janice6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 On 3/24/2019 at 11:36 AM, saltwater said: USN 65 - 67; VR-21 NAS Barbers Point on some little island in the Pacific ....... I think it was called Oahu. 67-68 USS Hancock, CVA-19 Poor baby! Dirty duty in Hawaii is stressful watching the babes surfing on Waikiki Beach. (jus saying) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Historian Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 I was born in 1972. So clearly, i missed it. But i just wanted to say: Thank you all. You leave me in awe when i think of what you did when you were asked. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DWARREN123 Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 1970-1992 retired SFC/E-7. U.S. Army 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pappypatchin Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 Started NG in high school. Went RA, 82d Airborne. Re-uped from 101st to go to 173d. 173d Airborne '65-'66-'67-'68 Arty FO/Recon Sgt by trade. My 3 yrs were on line with the Inf. Unique story: we were so far out commo was hinky. Needless to say that's when I really had to go to work. I made the call for fire and a Korean came on the net. Very recognizable accent if you've lived with them. I ID'ed myself, in Korean, using my Korean, nickname and where I got it instead of having my RTO do all the secret decoder ring stuff. My RTO is looking at me like I was nuts. Gave my mission in Korean and corrections. got our **** out of the wind and made the grunts very happy. Good thing the tour before VN was Korea. We might have been toast in the time it took to run thru the authentication sequence, if they even had the same Signal Operating Instructions one we had. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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