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as some you know i have been having more health problems it got to the point of hospitalization. today the doc’s done a sonigram and found a 3.5 cm anaurysum in my stomach my info is on the roster page
I am always amazed at the postings of those who came before & after me. The names change on where the fire fights took place, the fire base names change, our KIA’s continued, new friends are made in each time frame, and we will always be brothers for eternity even though we may have never met because of these bonds.
short round:
So ol’ “Snowbird” Louie is coming to visit? Tell him I said Hi.
i left RVN on 22 oct of 70. a week prior i caught a ride out to hawk hill and spent my last nite out there with 1st platoon, then back to chu lai . not sure where they were prior to that, and after leaving kham duc on 26 aug of 70. C. company did have a 3 day stand down in chu lai, i believe early to mid sept of 70,. i`ll see lou laparl tomorrow and ask him about sept and oct of 70. lou is here in AZ, away from the back east snows.
Janie!
How’s things in Ar-kan-sawww!
I tried to send you an email the other day, but it bounced back. I guess I’ve lost your new one.
For those who don’t recognize Janie, she was married to the late SFC Ronald Stailey, who was the 2nd PLSGT in 1970-71. She’s family.
Hello Gary, every now and then I come onto this site. Found a couple of pics of Ron on this trip. Was nice, although nostalgic, to see. Copied them to my file. If you come across any more, I’d appreciate being copied. (SFC Ronald Ira Stailey)
welcome janie to this site we put our other half thru alot so again i say welcome
LT:
I’m sure it’s me that is wrong. Since I got there in November of 70, I doubt they went back sometime between August and November. Someone else who knows may come along and straighten me out. Whenever it was, people who were there talked about it a lot. Kham Duc became like the standard of bad operations, until Antenna Valley and it was the standard until the DMZ. I guess since we had no institutional memory, a factor of 1 year tours, the worst area the company operated in during anyones year became as “bad as it gets.”
Gary,
Your comment about the company just coming back from Kham Duc when you joined them confuses me. Did 2/1 go back to Kham Duc after we withdrew from there in late august of 70??
Short Round:
I don’t know as I never operated in the Hiep Duc Valley, though I know where it is. My first operation was just over the hill in Antenna Valley beginning in early Dec, 1970. When I joined the company in late November, they were just coming back from Kham Duc, I think. We did 3 operations in Antenna Valley, then three out around LZ Mary Ann in the Thein Phouc area, then it was off to the DMZ. After that, we stayed somewhere in the Que Son Mountains until I came home. Our base camp moved from Hawk Hill to Camp Perdue in Danang just after the DMZ operation.
gary–if i remember right–VERY debateable- we humped up LZ west while in the hiep duc area. i`m thinking LZ siberia was out in that A.O. also. don`t remember when we left that area–maybe late may of 70 ? lt ty might remember. the 1 time we were to get a C.A. out there, the NVA decided we didn`t need 1, opened up on the choppers, and scattered them all over. guess they wanted us to sweat our butts off in the valleys, like they did.
Robert Lee Daugherty……. KIA 02/26/72 RIP
Terry:
Early in our marriage, I laid down the law to her. I would make all the decisions. I would take care of the money. I would make the rules. She would do nothing other than what I told her to do. I was THE BOSS!
Well..believe me, that shocked her. In fact, it shocked her so badly that I didn’t even see her for 3 days. After that, the swelling around my eyes went down enough that I could just barely see her moving around in the kitchen.
You know, I’ve been married to my sweet little lady 39 years in July. I told her right from the beginning that I would make all the IMPORTANT decisions. So far, I’ve never had to make one! Good Luck Brandon
Larry:
No comment. ‘-)
Cap:
Teresa must have caught you down at the VFW hanging out with some sweat hogs and bar flies. There’s just some days it not even worth chewing through the restraints. :>)
Brandon:
I’ve been married to the same woman now for nearly 40 years, so let me give you a piece of advice learned the hard way. The secret to a successful marriage is for you to surrender right off the bat. Give it up and make life easier for yourself. You’ll lose anyhow, so might as well do it early on. 🙂
Thanks for the congrats everyone, I appreciate it!
Walt
I used to catch, clean and eat chickens with Hoang all the time. the fact is that I ate so many chickens that I swore off them for life. I went without them for 20 years after Nam. 1990 I gave in and started eating chicken again. The Nam chickens were so tough I used to hack the meat with a razor so it was chewable.
I remember Sgt. Vega cooking a pig for us it wasn’t to bad. Plus we cooked chickens when could catch them.
Congratulations Brandon.
LT:
Don’t be so sure about that. We killed and ate a “captured” hog once, but our “chefs” managed to burn the thing so badly that each man only got a charred piece about the size of a golf ball. 🙂 It was all we had to eat that day as our intrepid Army helicopter pilots couldn’t bring in resupply for over a week. They said the weather was too bad to fly, but the Marines were in the air all the time. We were out of EVERYTHING!
Boy Rock if you and Hoang could have gotten ahold of some of that wildlife in Vietnam we would have eaten high off the hog as they say! Who needs money where you live, Larry, seems like you could subsist.
Wildlife abounds around here too. I see sweat hogs and bar flies down at the VFW all the time.
Larry
While your sightings are impressive, when I lived in Chicago I once saw a squirrel, two sparrows, a black bird and a rat. The rat was a two legged version which was stealing a car. All in one day. Talk about wildlife……
Yesterday, me and the wife were out and about and came upon a herd of about 25 elk about 15 miles from our house. What is so crazy about this is that this southeast corner of Colorado, we have to be somewhere close to the flattest place in America. We do however have a lot of creeks and one dry river here. We have lots of deer, antelope, bear, bob cats, occasionally a mountain lion, brown bears, coyote, wild pigs, pheasant, quail, jack rabbits, prairie dogs, coons, badgers, porky pine, and several other tasty critters.
Monday the Division of Wildlife had the chopper out shooting the wild pigs as they are a big problem for the guided hunting groups as they root up all the planted food areas intended for the deer and elk. I heard they got 80 some hogs and 14 coyotes.
Last Saturday, a friend of mine was out and about and we saw what we call a 6 point buck deer, but anywhere else it was a 12 point deer because they count both sides.
Brandon, Best wishes to you and your new bride to be.
Brandon,
Congratulations on your impending nuptuals.
Congratulations Brad!
I talked to Rex Allen the other night. He is really getting busy now in his die cast business. He had been really slow business wise for the past year and half. Rex is going to join the four of us that will show up about a week early for the reunion and do some fishing and hanging out.
My son, Brandon is getting married in Las Vegas in May. He is my last child to get married. Several of you guys got to meet him in St. Louis last year.
Pete,
Have your Uncle contact Larry Harper so we can get his information listed on the roster and he can obtain the password to the roster through Larry. Dan Munoz lives in Racine, WI
LT and Bill. My uncle is John Stewart was with Charlie company, 2/1. 1st platoon and he thinks 3rd squad. He said that its hard for him to remember peoples names; mainly last names. He was in a domolition squad. His squad leader was Sgt. Jack Phister or Fister. CO was Capt Rudoph Yap. He was wounded in Hep Duc, Aug 19th of 69 after Charlie went to reinforce Delta of 3/21. Capt Whittecar fo Delta was the one who bandaged him up in French Hootch. Dan Munoz is the soildier who put him on the medivac tp LZ Baldy.