Vietnam

Chuckman said:
My father was in the Marine Corps, in intelligence, he did three tours, the first was 65/66 (arty), 67/68 (MACV), 71-72 (Hml-167).
Thanks for what you did.
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Chuckman said:
My father was in the Marine Corps, in intelligence, he did three tours, the first was 65/66 (arty), 67/68 (MACV), 71-72 (Hml-167).
Thanks for what you did.
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Khe Sanh?
 
The old man was a helo pilot in the ugly angels squadron. Flew mainly H-34ā€™s.

After getting discharged with shrapnel in his leg that almost went gangrenous, married my mother and then went back and flew for air America.
 
Chdamn said:
The old man was a helo pilot in the ugly angels squadron. Flew mainly H-34ā€™s.

After getting discharged with shrapnel in his leg that almost went gangrenous, married my mother and then went back and flew for air America.
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I have a coworker whose dad was a helo driver with the Ugly Angels in Vietnam.

JustKeepSwimming said:
My Dad was on SEAL Team One and did 3 combat tours in Vietnam. Some amazing stories and amazing men that fought in the jungles there.
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I have seen your other posts. The stories he could tell.
 
Dad was air force in Saigon 65-66. Wound up being a courier for hq; carried pouches all over Saigon and many bases/outposts.
 
I was part of a Marine Corps motorcycle club, lot a Vietnam Vets. Many are my heros. Jack K., just died last year, was at Hill 881N outside of Khe Sahn. At one point he was with 1/9, the original Walking Dead. My buddy Jimmy has two Purple Hearts, one from an AK, another from a B40 rocket (RPG-2) near The Rockpile.

Other than my family, I have no greater love and respect than for these Vietnam combat veterans. God bless them.
 
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Dan0311 said:
I was part of a Marine Corps motorcycle club, lot a Vietnam Vets. Many are my heros. Jack K., just died last year, was at Hill 881N outside of Khe Sahn. At one point he was with 1/9, the original Walking Dead. My buddy Jimmy has two Purple Hearts, one from an AK, another from a B40 rocket (RPG-2) near The Rockpile.

Other than my family, I have no greater love and respect than for these Vietnam combat veterans. God bless them.
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I was young, but I remember the CACO visits on Camp Lejeune when I was growing up. My dad would say "I am no hero, but I those men are...."

Maybe because VN was the first war I recall and in which I had a personal stake with family, I am also partial to VN vets in a way that's different than veterans of other wars.
 
Chuckman said:
@Chdamn , your pop still with us?
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Yes he is. Heā€™s 80 and still getting around better than most 60 year olds.

My son is staying with him for the next week or so and the old man is taking him to everywhere interesting in KS. Lol.
 
Chdamn said:
Yes he is. Heā€™s 80 and still getting around better than most 60 year olds.

My son is staying with him for the next week or so and the old man is taking him to everywhere interesting in KS. Lol.
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If you haven't, start getting his stories on paper. Doesn't have to be graphic, can be anything...OCS, flight school, squadron life, anything.

@Lucky , @JT , @SSgt75 , same for y'all.
 
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Chuckman said:
If you haven't, start getting his stories on paper. Doesn't have to be graphic, can be anything...OCS, flight school, squadron life, anything.

@Lucky , @JT , @SSgt75 , same for y'all.
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Been trying. I posted the few heā€™s written on here awhile back.
 
Chdamn said:
Been trying. I posted the few heā€™s written on here awhile back.
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I talked with my coworker, her dad is Charles 'Lin' Hall. She's unsure of his time in VN. Ask your pop if the name rings a bell. If so, small world.

I remember some of those stories. The more you get.... I tried searching for your posts again. Can you move them up or share them on this thread? This thread would be appropriate.

My dad died when I was 8, so I have very little. I have connected with a former Marine with whom he served in the mid-60s, so that's been a nice connection. My dad did have a diary from his time with HML-167, which has been pretty cool with piecing some things together.
 
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Chuckman said:
If you haven't, start getting his stories on paper. Doesn't have to be graphic, can be anything...OCS, flight school, squadron life, anything.
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I do wish I would have done that with my Dad, especially towards the later years of his life when he started opening up about it. The handful of stories he did tell me were fricken doozies.

I found it interesting that in the last two years of his life he started to express remorse for the number of people he killed and how they went about doing it. He seemed especially concerned about all of the ambushes on the VC in sampans. He kept bringing that up. Close quarter and hand to hand combat will do that to you I suppose.
 
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JustKeepSwimming said:
I do wish I would have done that with my Dad, especially towards the later years of his life when he started opening up about it. The handful of stories he did tell me where fricken doozies.

I found it interesting that in the last two years of his life he started to express remorse for the number of people he killed and how they went about doing it. He seemed especially concerned about all of the ambushes on the VC in sampans. He kept bringing that up. Close quarter and hand to hand combat will do that to you I suppose.
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I imagine there are still some Team 1 guys still around, maybe not many, from whom you could get some info and connection. That was a small group. I have an acquaintance who volunteers at the SEAL/UDT museum in Florida who could help if you are interested.

The type of warfare they were engaged in was just different, not what they were classically trained for. The population did not help, either...they often did not know who were the 'good guys' and who were the 'bad guys,' and one could be the other in the course of minutes.
 
Chuckman said:
I imagine there are still some Team 1 guys still around
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There is a handful left. Two of them actually made it to my Dad's service in April. I kind of "grew up" with them being around as a kid and then as an adult going to the yearly ST reunions in Coronado (San Diego). Those annual ST reunions were some of the greatest and most humbling experiences of my life.
 
Chdamn said:
Yes he is. Heā€™s 80 and still getting around better than most 60 year olds.

My son is staying with him for the next week or so and the old man is taking him to everywhere interesting in KS. Lol.
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Dang, he looks great for 80!
 
My dad served in the mid 60's, was never deployed over seas. But I have always been amazed at how many funny stories from his time in the "Green machine" he has. Id wager, in his life (he is in his 80s) that he spent 2 years in the army, and he has more stories about those 2 years than probably all the other 78.

No, again, no fake grandeur, he freely admits he spent most of his time at HQ doing paperwork because he had been to college, and knew how to read and write.
 
My dad was in. He doesn't say much, about his time, other than driving a truck, hooking up radio stuff... standing in a tower and watching bomb shockwaves flap leaves and low clouds. And one time pulling a mounted machine gun off its mount and running it across camp to fire into the trees and not knowing how he was doing it since he used to be called "flaco" or "skinny". I honestly don't think i've ever asked much about his time in, because he tends to be a talker already, but his time there somehow never makes it into conversation. He doesn't do VFW halls, parades, meet-ups, none of that stuff.
 
Chuckman said:
I talked with my coworker, her dad is Charles 'Lin' Hall. She's unsure of his time in VN. Ask your pop if the name rings a bell. If so, small world.

I remember some of those stories. The more you get.... I tried searching for your posts again. Can you move them up or share them on this thread? This thread would be appropriate.

My dad died when I was 8, so I have very little. I have connected with a former Marine with whom he served in the mid-60s, so that's been a nice connection. My dad did have a diary from his time with HML-167, which has been pretty cool with piecing some things together.
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Found these 3. I feel like Iā€™m missing one but this might be it.

Oh and he says he definitely remembers a Hall but it was too many beer 30ā€™s ago to remember a first name.

Tell your friend to ask her dad if he remembers an M.L. Morris. He has been described as ā€œsuccinctā€. Lol.

https://carolinafirearmsforum.com/i...et-home-another-story-from-the-old-man.42359/

https://carolinafirearmsforum.com/index.php?threads/hello-marine-another-excerpt-from-my-dad.24123/
 
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The St Christopher (My Fatherā€™s Writing)

Iā€™ve been after my father for many years to begin chronicling his life before itā€™s too late. A lot of the amazing things he has done are still classified so it makes it hard. He is also a very humble man so has a very hard time writing about himself. Well he finally started. Iā€™ll share...
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Gonna try to get this right. My dad was at Camp Reasoner, Freedom Hill, Da Nang.

Roger Fleming
1st Recon Battalion, Alpha Company, 1st Platoon, Cayenne. Not sure on the exact dates.

He didnā€™t tell many stories. Iā€™ve come to realize that some folks lost someone in Vietnam, but many of us lost someone to Vietnam. My dad actually was a baby killer. Think Lone Survivor with 2 small kids but everything went the other way. Nobody was going to win in that situation. And dad made the call to protect his men.

Went through his 4 scrap books. Odd mix of personal stuff, stuff from friends, and war photography. Pulled a few things out that I think are his. In a few pics it looks like they are cross training with Army SF.



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ā€œColonel Maggieā€ Martha Raye, USO peformer, amazing lady and dear friend to the Green Berets.

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