Freedom Bird
a Huey ride from Hawk Hill to Chu Lai. a C130 ride to Cam Ranh Bay. then to a 707 for the "WORLD". we boarded, found seats, and buckled in. taxied out then the take off run the ongoing chatter...
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Huey ride to Chu Lai...C-130 to Cam Ranh Bay...after confiscating my piece of Chinese .122 rocket shrapnel... seated in Northwest Orient Jet already ogling the stewardess. MP comes on board with...
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Hey Chu, Some Lifer making a big deal out of minor stuff like the color of socks always drove me nuts. Let me tell you in all sincerity, Welcome Home!!!!
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MP78 wrote: Some Lifer making a big deal out of minor stuff like the color of socks always drove me nuts. Let me tell you in all sincerity, Welcome Home!!!! That varied by unit and command. Field...
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While I agree that some units may allow a troop to swap out some small things in the field. Of course you couldn't let this stuff makes it's way into your display of issued equipment during an...
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No Jim...he did not.It was 1968 and he was a young 2nd Louie with no VN ribbons so odds were not good he would survive his upcoming tour. The black market was going strong when i was in Nam. If you...
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CHU Lai 68 wrote: . Just curious...was there a black market in Germany? Sure was! Hottest thing on the market was American cigarettes. They had American brands available, but mostly with Turkish...
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Nothernug is correct. I didn't smoke and I could get a carton of Marlboros for $2.60. That would let me drink all week down at Edies gasthaus. I could get a 1/2 gal. bottle of Jim Beam for $6.40 and...
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What?! No Jaegersnitzel??? I used to really enjoy that with a side of pommesfrittes.
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There's a German restaurant here in El Paso, started by a real German WW II vet, I understand, that serves a mean Jaegerschnitzel, along with a lot of other schnitzels, and German beer. The place is...
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Honestly, we even had the hotel staff call restaurants in the towns we were in. We even went to one that was reccomended by one of the staff as being her favorite because of the quality of the...
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I guess a mini-story could be written about this long/short journey. I say "long/short" because it seemed endless at the time, but compared to troop movements in previous wars, or even deployments to...
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Good post on trip to The World from The Nam. I made it twice, 68 and '70. Conditions at Ft Lewis much more primitive than the pictured one. No sweat, that's the way it went. It was funny to see the...
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Colin wrote: ... The place is more Bavarian than Northern German; "Gunther's Eidelweis". .. This is a little OT but Edelweiss is the cap insignia of German and Austrian mountain jaegers, ww2 and...
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Edelweiss grows in high mountain places and was worn by troops (mountain) to show their strength as only the best climbers could get to it. I have an Edelweiss pin from Austria placed on a cap worn by...
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Again, my Father was the supposed last Commander of the Presidio before the Army left. He also controlled Ft. Baker, Barry and Cronkite, Hamilton AFB, Alcatraz and others. There is nothing written...
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C-123 ride from Quang Tri Combat Base airstrip to Danang, then C-130 to Cam Rahn Bay. Then Flying Tiger Airlines to Ft Lewis, Washington. Got into Ft Lewis late on a Friday, they seperated guys...
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rice paddy daddy wrote:C-123 ride from Quang Tri Combat Base airstrip to Danang, then C-130 to Cam Rahn Bay. Then Flying Tiger Airlines to Ft Lewis, Washington. Got into Ft Lewis late on a Friday,...
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While at the airport waiting for a flight, some Army men took their brand new uniform off in the men's room and threw it in the trash and put on civvies they had in their duffel bag. I left mine on...
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The abuse stories are far rarer than those actually claimed-a lot of VN vets insist on taking the "poor me" ground and continuing to hold it. I will say that if one actually had an abusive experience,...
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