So what did I do for work uniforms ? About a mile out the crew started kicking boxes out the doors. The crew truck got there about 1745 hr or so and the doc was still busy. The bundle was given to the mother who would take the bundle out side and set it down in the dirt by the street. After the little girl died I never went back to the clinic. of any of that. January 30, 1968 marked the beginning of the Tet Offensive. Nobody bothered to help the new guy with the profoundly negative and dangerous war situation you found yourself in. Vietnam War Wannabes | Page 3 | Senior Forums I think it was on May 22,Wednesday when I was on the night radio,phone watch that I wrote my poem about this event. I was given our 2 new carpenters to help with the concrete pour, 3rd class builder Calabresy and builder CN Craig Taylor. On the "left side" was all the said hours 1700 to 2100. Gallons of Herbicides Sprayed. course. blocked. The VC had taken their 782 gear (combat gear, weapons and ammo) and bugged out. I dreaded standing that watch but ever 5 and then 7 days I was going to get it! Stephen Marcoux Obituary (1947 - 2017) - Hoosick Falls, VT - Legacy We are the Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 1122, based in Collin County, Texas. Drive out the back gate and about 2 miles to the Navy Seabee base. Paperback. "My wartime experiences have changed me. I don't laugh as much or the Some guys were able to go through their whole tour in Vietnam in John Wayne mode. My friend and his dog Rusty had cornered a very large possum against a tree and I went around the back of the tree and shot that possum at the base of the skull at point blank with a 22 cal short. Historian, US Navy Seabee Museum. This article incorporatespublic domain material from websites or documents of the Naval History and Heritage Command. Coate took care of my paper work and handing in my bedding while I was packing up my sea bag and then it was back to clothing issue somewhere in China beach to pick up my clothing issue which was 4 sets of green utilities a couple soft hats (the Marine Corps kind) and a pair of work boots. Didnt take long to figure out that everyone could see that you were a FNG. There was a Marine listening ambush set up outside the perimeter in that area. Great Discounts & More! I was driving on the perimeter road with the dry storage ASM wall on my right. There were 6 area work centers in the Da Nang AO . Coate was not there to know about Puppy. In another incident, a black guard was shot to death when a black sailor went on a wild shooting spree at Camp Tien Sha near Danang. Select the period (starting by the reporting year): precomm - 1967 | 1968 | 1969 - now Register and add yourself to the Crew List of the Naval Support Activity Danang. Photo's by Vietnam Veterans page 3 - CAMP SABRE The kids were always hanging around and the best way to keep them from stealing was to befriend them by giving them candy. Most of the time if you were I didn't realize at the time that the intended target was me and the generators. These places were essential for the completion of the overall mission and are important for understanding the assignments and accomplishments of personnel who served with the U.S. We had devastated their economy and destroyed their infrastructure. a small cargo plane in the middle of the night, all I The little girl was fusing and didn't want to leave the nurse so it took a little effort to hand her off to me . roof. Get those Fucking Gooks away from that Damn trailer". Camp Tien Sha Vietnam 1968 from Monkey Mountain nstar48 Media item Jan 30, 2008 camp tien sha monkey mountain united states navy seabees vietnam war year 1968 Comments: 2 Category: Images of Vietnam China Beach from Monkey Mountain 1968 China Beach and Marble Mountain from Monkey Mountain Vietnam 1968 nstar48 Media item Jan 30, 2008 I was told to put it between the farmers teeth with the ends sticking out of the sides of his mouth and I was to gently but firmly hold on to the ends of the stick and hold his head down. YFU-62 by ghost549 on DeviantArt MAY 10, 1967 FOR COLLEGES State-Related Status Unique By WILLIAM E. DEIBLER HARRISBURG (AP) How would yo There was only one hospital bed and a couple cots in the building at that time. Surprisingly, I never step foot on a ship, I was always stationed in Navy hospitals. My AR 15 slept on my left side right next to my body so I could always feel where it was. Late in the day we had built them a nice hootch and had them moved in. I have spent countless hours over the past 15 years driving my motorbike around the Camp Books area looking for any of our workers. I thought the clinic was for children. Recent photo of Cheryl and me The port of Danang contained only three small piers, three Landing Ship, Tank (LST) ramps and a stone quay that were inaccessible to oceangoing vessels; even smaller craft had trouble approaching. [1], By July 1968 NSA Danang handled 350,000 tons of cargo each month for the 200,000 allied troops in I Corps. maids walked in and started cleaning Maybe it's just me. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. The plane started to drop, going in steep and fast. side was a area called Bridge Ramp which was where the Navy LSTs would pull in After I let them go I was sitting on my tool box waiting for the crew truck to come pick me up. year 1968 | MilitaryImages.Net The memory of this little girl and the events at the Children's hospital are the reason I never had children of my own. [4] NSA Danang originally operated from a commercial pier on the city side of the Hn River and this "Museum Ramp" (.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}160300N 1081328E / 16.05N 108.2245E / 16.05; 108.2245) near the Cham Museum began operation in November 1965 off-loading Landing Craft Utility (LCUs) and LSTs. So just go back to work and keep moving so he doesn't have a stationary target and you should be OK!" ---- I spent the rest of the day until after dark alone in the shop building a foot locker. really an enclosure. of the enclosure with a "shower Camp Horn is a former United States Marine Corps and United States Army base located in Danang, Vietnam. $10 of that came from me. If your lost and want ed Camp Haskins (South) for Camp Tien Sha to complete the retrograding of equipment. He was standing about 10 feet from me and the first round of a rocket attack went through the ventilator on top of our building ,exactly four feet above the LTs head and exploded in the ware house bay next to our shop. The nurses were all Vietnamese and were employed there so I would often see the same nurses. and the LT moved to the Da. from two times. Alan on base [1], The logistic establishment at Danang functioned with growing efficiency by mid-1968 as it built new port and shore facilities. It sure seemed longer then a month, to me it was more like a few months! with her work. to DaNang. because of all the flares in the mountains next to the base. quarters. First came the steps and as soon as that was finished I helped the Navy doctor and Vietnamese nurse move in a big grey office desk and an open book shelf unit. this place, wearing only "shower I needed to know which of the sound meant danger! I was They were only a couple hundred yards away! She would be down on her hands and knees crying and waling. Hard at work in the Investigations Office, Camp Tien Sha annex, Da Nang area, 8/69 to 7/70, Ray Norton. I was to hear FNG called to general quarters was in at Camp Fay, never. The only answer I could give them that they would except was. I wanted to know everything about what happened to those Marines. Was a different Doc and Nurse and they didn't know anything other than the farmer had been moved to the civilian hospital in Da Nang City. He finished his tour with detective work as one of six NSA investigators at Camp Tien Sha, adjacent to Da Nang. Soon we came to the bridge across the Han River. the "enlisted head" identified in We were here, [1] In November 1965 500 men moved into the old French Army camp, Camp Tien Sha at the foot of Monkey Mountain. Here is the battalion report for May 1968. Over 130 rough terrain and warehouse forklifts and 20 cranes eased cargo handling. It was what those say I rarely ventured onto the left Sandoval. Then after thinking about it I realized how wrong I was. The advantage was that I got a whole extra year of dive time at Hoods Canal with Pett and got to do deep water dives with him ( 120 to 140 feet) in the summer of 1966. It was no problem during the day because either the XO or Chief were there or the secretary,interpreter (miss Nguyen). BBC News, Da Nang, Vietnam Da Nang is one of Vietnam's major ports, a city rich in history. Because of the rocket attack on May 13 (rockets hit with in 50 yard of this building) some of the officers there wanted escape doors out the back of the building where they were starting to build their own bunkers. The new wood frame building that I did was behind the camera. I slammed on the brakes and dove out the truck door head first catching my foot under the clutch peddle on the way out. Around back there was a Jeep with a utility trailer on behind. . didnt get shot at and we safely landed and taxied off the run way. I asked about the little girl and the doc said she had died Thursday night. This is a 122mm rocket crater in the road in front of our shop. shoes" and one of the Vietnamese It was a real learning experience for the three of us. I suppose that I needed that time alone to recover from the amputation! Here in Vietnam with the advanced gangrene she was going to die and there was nothing that could be done! I am not sure what possessed me to write poems there. Any damage at FLC was my teams responsibility to asses , clean up and repair or replace so I had direct involvement in all rocket and mortar attacks at FLC. I do remember very clearly the event that happened that totally burned me out on working there. They were pissed off at him because they were sent out there that night when they had already done a day patrol, and they wanted to scare the crap out of him. So every week there would be a different doctor. To know all the different sounds was to be able to read what was happening at night and how safe I was. It was a strange way for a job to start. Yes that's me smiling up from the 122mm rocket crater. When we arrived at Red Beach the Seabee team shop was a mad house. These detachments decentralized the support function and improved the logistic flow. In mid-October 1968 the Deep Water Pier complex ( 16.12N 108.214E) on the Tien Sha peninsula was completed, beginning operations in September 1968.

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