A beautiful day
At the end of December, 1968, we were on a company size operation in the mountains somewhere west of Hue. Delta company was also on an operation in the mountains and made some contact with the enemy....
View ArticleCentipedes that could be in a SiFi movie
On occasion we would encounter giant centipedes when we were on missions in the jungle. I had never seen an insect so big in all my life. They weren’t hard to miss because of their size. It’s colors...
View ArticleSoldier shot himself in the foot
I heard about a new soldier that shot himself in the leg shortly after being assigned to our platoon. He was one of two guys that joined out 1st platoon. The guy that shot himself had not even been...
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Night ambush on the Song Bo – Part 2
View of Song BO River, where we ambushed vietcong in a sampan. After striping down to his fatigue bottoms he dove into the river and swam out to where we last saw the sampan. When reached the middle...
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Treetop Flyer
I was talking to an old friend today. I told him about my Vietnam blog and he told me something that gave me an idea. I recently saw a couple of YouTube videos that I really liked that reminded me of...
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Buddy re-assigned to Alpha Company
Alfredo Hernandez and Greg West at firebase I took the picture in this post of Alfredo and Greg as they took a break from working on one of our fire-bases. They are resting against a fuel or water...
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Hot LZ continued
Huey taking off from fire base with troops, headed to an LZ in the jungle. As my squad readied weapons and gear we were given final instructions by our squad leader, Sgt Dunn. He told us that our...
View ArticleYellow rain
We were stationed on a firebase overlooking the A Shau Valley one time. The top of the firebase was bare with not a lot of protection from the elements. On this particular day it was a mostly clear...
View ArticleNew guy with bug killer
Toward the last part of my tour, we had a new soldier join our squad while we were out on a mission in the jungle. His last name was Carpenter. Most of the men in our squad had been together for...
View ArticleThe story about the soldier who just walked off into the jungle
While our platoon was stationed at Firebase Long we heard a story of a soldier who just walked away from a firebase and disappeared into the jungle. The story was that he didn’t take his weapon or...
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