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Originally Posted By BROvet04:
Glad too he has a whole bunch of slides at his house somewhere I'd love to get developed. Unfortunately he is in the hospital recovering from cancer surgery. I hope he pulls through. Dementia is setting in at his age too. 78 and will be 79 in Oct. Been in the hospital since early May. View Quote Thanks for sharing those pictures. That's a nice looking rifle you put together for him. |
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Thanks for the kind words and prayers everyone. He seems to be improving so I hope he can get out of the hospital ASAP. I know he hates it there is giving the nurses and doctors hell. LOL
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Advanced Glock Certified Armorer.
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Thank him for his service from us and prayers for him to get better.
You did real good on building him the rifle. Ron |
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Thank you all for your service. This thread has some amazing stories!
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As a kid (born in 63) I remember watching the nightly news on the war in SEA but never really understood until I worked with a Marine that fought there. He spoke of the good times but rarely about the tough times. He's the one that taught me how to shoot and I bought my first gun from, Ruger MkI Government Model...still have it. :)
Since working with him I've read more about that war and tried to thank all those that fought and served. For the guys here on AR15, thanks for your service, sacrifice and welcome home! Now days I work with a bunch of "kids" that have been serving and fighting our current GWOT. And everyone of them, Army, Navy, Air Force & Marine has been a squared away guy I can trust. Thanks again and please keep sharing the pix and stories! 7mm-08 |
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Originally Posted By Sarge13:
I seemed to quite often be at the wrong place/wrong time. I was at Nha Trang in the fall of 69 when charlie hit the fuel storage tanks on the SE side of Nha Trang. I was also there later when they rocketed the air base. Since the SFOB was between the air base & charlie we always got any short rounds. Then I was at Dong Ba Thin with a Recondo class when they got rocketed. Later I was at an A camp in Chi Lang in IV Korps when they got hit on Easter Sunday morning 1970. That one was one time to many. We stopped the attack in its tracks and killed a large portion of the attacking force, but that time they finally got to me. I took grenade hits that screwed up my left hand/arm and put a piece in my gut. Went out early that morning (29 Mar 70), along with 3 other wounded in a Huey to the 3rd Surg hospital at Can Tho. Spent time there recovering from surgery to get all the pieces out of me and the holes patched up, then went to Can Rahn Bay hospital for a while before being put on a mediva back to the states (by way of a 10 day delay in japan). 14 months after I got hit they medicaly retired me. 15 yrs, 2 months down the tube! But I do get disability retired pay. I've got photos of some of those excursions, but have Not been able to figure out how to post them on this board??? Sarge View Quote |
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Originally Posted By LoneWolf545:
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Originally Posted By Sarge13:
I seemed to quite often be at the wrong place/wrong time. I was at Nha Trang in the fall of 69 when charlie hit the fuel storage tanks on the SE side of Nha Trang. I was also there later when they rocketed the air base. Since the SFOB was between the air base & charlie we always got any short rounds. Then I was at Dong Ba Thin with a Recondo class when they got rocketed. Later I was at an A camp in Chi Lang in IV Korps when they got hit on Easter Sunday morning 1970. That one was one time to many. We stopped the attack in its tracks and killed a large portion of the attacking force, but that time they finally got to me. I took grenade hits that screwed up my left hand/arm and put a piece in my gut. Went out early that morning (29 Mar 70), along with 3 other wounded in a Huey to the 3rd Surg hospital at Can Tho. Spent time there recovering from surgery to get all the pieces out of me and the holes patched up, then went to Can Rahn Bay hospital for a while before being put on a mediva back to the states (by way of a 10 day delay in japan). 14 months after I got hit they medicaly retired me. 15 yrs, 2 months down the tube! But I do get disability retired pay. I've got photos of some of those excursions, but have Not been able to figure out how to post them on this board??? Sarge |
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Official NorCal_LEO callsign: Patch
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Originally Posted By delete:
RVN, OLAD, Dalat, 14th APS https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/132102/IMG-0011-243894.JPG https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/132102/IMG-0012-243895.JPG View Quote |
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Do kids still play Cops and Robbers, or are they just taught both are equally bad and given a participation ribbon after a rousing game of scoreless Everyone's a Winner Ball? - BehindBlueI's
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Originally Posted By jblomenberg16:
I have to chuckle at these two. My daughter and I raise beef for a hobby as part of a 4H project. If you get a steer (or cow) that doesn't want to move, it is pretty darn tough to get it to move! View Quote They were easier to clean out with a fire hose. A few time the were shipped in C7 (caribou's). The crews on the C-130 refused to carry them. I have a few more picture of them to post later. They went to the forward camps. There were a few times mortar's, rockets and small arms were so bad that the Air craft would land and slowly roll down the landing strip. The cattle would jump off the ramp. It would take a few days for them to gather them up. Air drop was tried and it just did not always work out so well. Attached File Attached File Attached File Attached File Attached File |
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The following video created by GordonDenniston. It covers the 119th AHC flying out of Dak To in 1967. While it may not be anything new to those who served, I found it informative and well worth my time (particularly around 36:28). Hopefully others will as well.
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I may have posted ITT already, but if I didn't...
God bless all the guys who went over there, and pray that God takes good care of our brothers that didn't come home. |
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I'm really enjoying all these pics !!
Please post more if you have them !! |
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Originally Posted By 4thUSMC:
Wow, never knew Chinooks were used as gunships! Was that something done in country? View Quote |
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Fear is a reaction, courage is a decision.
I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders, not for an easier path, but for stronger feet, not for weaker enemies, but for a stronger self! |
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Originally Posted By Snake_driver:
Gun's-A-GO-Go is what it was called. It was a prototype that didn't really go anywhere. Great idea considering the large lift capability of the Hook, but also a huge target for the bad guys. The Cobra was the first purpose-built gunship that really fit the bill. View Quote |
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"Let's eat Grandma!
Let's eat, Grandma! Commas, because your poor grandmother shouldn't be cannibalized." -Chapman |
I hope to make my pics visable again.
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This world would be a better place to live if it weren't for people!
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Originally Posted By Sarge13:
I seemed to quite often be at the wrong place/wrong time. I was at Nha Trang in the fall of 69 when charlie hit the fuel storage tanks on the SE side of Nha Trang. I was also there later when they rocketed the air base. Since the SFOB was between the air base & charlie we always got any short rounds. Then I was at Dong Ba Thin with a Recondo class when they got rocketed. Later I was at an A camp in Chi Lang in IV Korps when they got hit on Easter Sunday morning 1970. That one was one time to many. We stopped the attack in its tracks and killed a large portion of the attacking force, but that time they finally got to me. I took grenade hits that screwed up my left hand/arm and put a piece in my gut. Went out early that morning (29 Mar 70), along with 3 other wounded in a Huey to the 3rd Surg hospital at Can Tho. Spent time there recovering from surgery to get all the pieces out of me and the holes patched up, then went to Can Rahn Bay hospital for a while before being put on a mediva back to the states (by way of a 10 day delay in japan). 14 months after I got hit they medicaly retired me. 15 yrs, 2 months down the tube! But I do get disability retired pay. I've got photos of some of those excursions, but have Not been able to figure out how to post them on this board??? Sarge View Quote |
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So you can shoot? Come to an Appleseed, let's verify that claim, then start helping me teach others to shoot too!
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Originally Posted By somedude:
Did the Chinook have a higher top speed especially diving? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By somedude:
Originally Posted By Snake_driver:
Gun's-A-GO-Go is what it was called. It was a prototype that didn't really go anywhere. Great idea considering the large lift capability of the Hook, but also a huge target for the bad guys. The Cobra was the first purpose-built gunship that really fit the bill. ETA: Here's a link to a great website that will tell you almost everything about the Guns-A-Go-Go Program that started in 1966. It turns out there were 4 prototype aircraft built. Three were destroyed during the testing and only 1 survived to be on display in a museum. Guns-A-Go-Go |
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Fear is a reaction, courage is a decision.
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"Let's eat Grandma!
Let's eat, Grandma! Commas, because your poor grandmother shouldn't be cannibalized." -Chapman |
yes the VC made there own claymores. sheet metal exterior scrap metal set in concrete in the business end and filled with whatever explosive they could find. highly effective but more directional than the US version, there was a road junction with an NDP on it known as " Claymore Corners" that was famous for all the claymore attacks. I thought that it was a name that was only used by my company, but later I found out that almost the entire 1st division knew that name.
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I saw several like these that were alot bigger , NVA would also hang them in the trees , along with mortar rounds of all sizes , no one was ever killed by one where we were at just wounded from the shrapnel inside them , they put rocks , nails , broken glass , and empty pieces of brass inside them ,what they could find was put in them , an early warning device to let them know we were coming
Originally Posted By somedude:
I knew they made improvised weapons out of everything, but first I heard of vietcong claymores. June 13, 1967 - Lt. Clark Welch and PFC Ben Dunn, Recon Platoon, 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Division, with Viet Cong claymore mines. https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/14/b2/ee/14b2eedab89e76cf7493a46a3507910f--viet-cong-vietnam-history.jpg View Quote |
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One of our platoons came across a factory in the jungle where they were making those. The were melting the TNT out of dud rounds and pouring into shapes like those. But they had a misshap and the place had been blown up. There were some parts of bodies around.
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The Ricky Recons used plastic soap dishes filled with screws and nails and a small chunk of C4. Didn't have outriggers, so they duck-taped a pair of nails to the sides and viola - homemade claymore. Insert a blasting cap and pick your detonator. Pretty damn slick.
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http://www.amazon.com/Gentle-Propositions-J-S-Economos/dp/0615997635
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Low rider C123?
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Originally Posted By somedude:
I knew they made improvised weapons out of everything, but first I heard of vietcong claymores. June 13, 1967 - Lt. Clark Welch and PFC Ben Dunn, Recon Platoon, 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Division, with Viet Cong claymore mines. https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/14/b2/ee/14b2eedab89e76cf7493a46a3507910f--viet-cong-vietnam-history.jpg" target="_blank">https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/14/b2/ee/14b2eedab89e76cf7493a46a3507910f--viet-cong-vietnam-history.jpg View Quote |
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RVN, Mobility,
Song Be 1970 Attached File OLAD, RVN 1968 Dalat. Attached File Attached File Attached File Attached File |
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couple I saw yesterday while looking up modified guns.
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"Let's eat Grandma!
Let's eat, Grandma! Commas, because your poor grandmother shouldn't be cannibalized." -Chapman |
Originally Posted By Snake_drive
Great story! I love those FAC drivers and have a tremendous respect for the job they did. They were either completely fearless or totally insane. I flew that same AO in '72. The bad guys were deadly serious about the job they did there. By '72 the FAC's were flying the O-2 (pronounced Oscar Deuce). Great little plane. View Quote Anyhow, the old man once told me a story about the prelude to the invasion of Cambodia and having to root out a 20mm gun placed on the N side of the a bridge somewhere N of An Loc in the days before the advance. He had another one about landing in Indian Country at/near a place called Boo Gee Mop (I've mispelled it badly) which supposedly had been over-run in years prior (that one has all the earmarks of a a genuine Sea Story though). Dad knows how to write an entertaining story. |
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My father in law is a Vietnam vet, and has recently opened up to me about some of his experiences. He told me about how he was awarded his BSM and the link below is the battle he was awarded his PH. Crazy thing is, after everything he went through, he and his friends hold me and other OIF/OEF vets in the highest regard.
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I survived ARFbortion 2016
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Originally Posted By delete:
OLA, DALAT,1968, CAM LY AIR FIELD. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/132102/IMG-0043-258500.JPG View Quote We were having a new concrete runway built next to the old runway. They built the runway from each end towards the middle. There was a small section in the middle that had not been completed. We had lots of the red dirt that had turned to powder dust and had filled in the gap in the runway. From the air it looked like a completed runway. CCT (air traffic controller) had told them to land on the left runway (it was shorter and looked like crap). The Co-pilot decided that the runway on the right looked better and landed on it. It did fine until they got to the gap in the runway. It drove the front landing wheel into the inside of the air craft where there is a box behind the cockpit the loadmaster or FE. stood on. It knocked him into the cargo area. They flew a C-123 maintenance crew in that jacked it up, lowered the landing gear back down, tied it up with straps and cable, wire, etc. and flew it out. It would not have been good to leave it there over night. It would have been pieces of scrap metal in the morning. We had several air craft crash when landing/take off in the year I was there. Snipers, mortars, rockets were always a problem also for air craft. I forgot something. Trees were a problem. Tall Pine trees. We had several air craft hit the tops of the trees usually with the wing. It usually happened when the heavy fog rolled in. |
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The First Infantry Division has digitized many of its publications and they are available at
Col Robert McCormick Research Center Digital Collection use the collections drop down box and uncheck all the boxes except Vietnam collection. The American Traveler Vol 29 published Sept 12, 1968 has a article about an ambush I was on " Ambush Foils Hungry VC" |
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a few pics not sure where they are all from. to keep the thread alive.
Attached File Attached File Attached File NVA sam batteries Attached File Attached File |
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"Let's eat Grandma!
Let's eat, Grandma! Commas, because your poor grandmother shouldn't be cannibalized." -Chapman |
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"Let's eat Grandma!
Let's eat, Grandma! Commas, because your poor grandmother shouldn't be cannibalized." -Chapman |
Arms wide open, I stand alone. I'm no hero, and I'm not made of stone.
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SEAL Team 2 in Nam. View Quote Attached File 6:33 Attached File 7:31 Attached File |
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USPSA-IPSC Phuc cancer I liked this place a lot better when it was a gun forum. |
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Originally Posted By misplayedhand:
The following video created by GordonDenniston. It covers the 119th AHC flying out of Dak To in 1967. While it may not be anything new to those who served, I found it informative and well worth my time (particularly around 36:28). Hopefully others will as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNlQ1sjEBc0 View Quote |
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Originally Posted By Denner:
You may have heard of triple canopy jungle, how dark was it? These pictures were taken in the afternoon on a sunny day https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/81853/Vietnam_Pictures_146_JPG-302596.jpg https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/81853/Vietnam_Pictures_144_JPG-302595.jpg View Quote |
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http://www.amazon.com/Gentle-Propositions-J-S-Economos/dp/0615997635
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this was the reason why rockets from gunships were not effective till the delay fuses were added to them , they all exploded at the top of the canopy instead of hitting and killing the badguys underneath it ..
Originally Posted By Denner:
You may have heard of triple canopy jungle, how dark was it? These pictures were taken in the afternoon on a sunny day https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/81853/Vietnam_Pictures_146_JPG-302596.jpg https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/81853/Vietnam_Pictures_144_JPG-302595.jpg View Quote |
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This takes me back. I was there in 1967-68 and yes I love the TET. I was Navy river boats. As for weapons we had M-60's up to twin 50's.
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fyi Ken Burns Vietnam is on pbs this Sunday. They are telling it from several sides, including the communists and hippies so it might be a little different his previous stuff.
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"Let's eat Grandma!
Let's eat, Grandma! Commas, because your poor grandmother shouldn't be cannibalized." -Chapman |
Originally Posted By somedude:
fyi Ken Burns Vietnam is on pbs this Sunday. They are telling it from several sides, including the communists and hippies so it might be a little different his previous stuff. link View Quote |
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http://www.amazon.com/Gentle-Propositions-J-S-Economos/dp/0615997635
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Originally Posted By M10KEN:
this was the reason why rockets from gunships were not effective till the delay fuses were added to them , they all exploded at the top of the canopy instead of hitting and killing the badguys underneath it .. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By M10KEN:
this was the reason why rockets from gunships were not effective till the delay fuses were added to them , they all exploded at the top of the canopy instead of hitting and killing the badguys underneath it .. Originally Posted By Denner:
You may have heard of triple canopy jungle, how dark was it? These pictures were taken in the afternoon on a sunny day https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/81853/Vietnam_Pictures_146_JPG-302596.jpg https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/81853/Vietnam_Pictures_144_JPG-302595.jpg Point-Detonating fuses were worthless in those applications. When the switch to 'resistance capacitance' fuses was made they provided a world of difference in canopy penetration and kill probability. |
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