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Hey guys!
What is the most unusual thing you received from home in a package while in Nam. I know Larry Foster’s was a .38 cal pistol. I believe mine might have been a can of smoked oysters.
Whenever I think of KIA or WIA in any war I always think there was a first & last. I don’t know about anyone else but after about a month of serious humping I thought I would have either happen early in my tour as I did not want to do all that humping & have it happen at the end. Cheerful guy, aren’t I?
By the time I left, I was resigned to being killed and just wanted to get it over with. Actually coming home unharmed was a shock.
Yeah. Captain Morris loved the 90. I remember one time we were about to hump back in and had about 30 rounds. he picked up the gun and started firing (I don’t remember if there was a target). I “warned” him that the in our training the specs said you could only fire like 3 rounds a minute or something. He just laughed and said something like “Keep loading Infantry.” And, of course there was no one I would rather take orders from than him. He did it so you guys would have less to carry.
RIP Robert Lee Daughterly KIA Feb 26, 1972. Probably C 2/1 last KIA. Platoon size patrol ambushed.
Jim:
You are correct in Robert being our last Charlie Company brother killed. He was from Abilene, TX and he was 24 years old when he was killed. RIP brother Robert.
The first C Company soldiers killed were nearly six years before the last.
The first C Company soldiers came home nearly six years before the last.
There never seems enough to show for that lengthy period of war.
It’s not my birthday either yesterday or today. Save you happy birthday wishes for much later when it happens.
A cold Coors beer goes down good even when it isn’t my birthday!
Happy Birthday Larry …..Thanks for the Website…..Those Coors beers go down nice and smooth.
Well guys, if I am not mistaken, the 24th or the 25th is Larry Harper’s (Sgt. Fury) birthday. He looks so young that it is hard to guess his age. Let’s hear a big Happy Birthday for that Coors drinkin SOB…….
Happy Birthday Larry!
There were grenade launchers for the M=1 Garand and also the M-14
Didn’t those stick in the end of the barrel? That had to be some tuff times when you fought in WWII.
My walking point story. As a 90mm guy I never did it. Not even once. Not even when not carrying the 90. I’m trying to figure out if I feel guilty or not. Naah. Thanks guys for doing all the dirty work so I could just blow stuff up with a lot of drama. Plus, you had to carry all the xtra 90mm rounds for us.
Just so you guys have someone ELSE to get a case of the jaws against, I only walked point ONE TIME on a night patrol. Of course, I did walk THIRD from the point all the other times.
Infantry
It was an honor to carry those heavy ass kicking rounds for you. I should say for you and Cpt. Morris.
Gary,
You are correct as I have stumbled around my whole life but have blessed in so many ways with finding acorns.
I remember we had it pretty good in 1st platoon. We had Flannery who loved to walk point, and was the best, and Shortround was our ace tunnel rat. When Flannery left the field with a $million dollar wound (Baby broke his leg in a friendly jungle frolic), we got the dogs to walk point. They were very good when we had ’em…. if we kept our distance.
Gary, are you telling me “Army Intelligence” exists?
LOL I know that’s the world’s greatest oxymoron, but the Army manages to do a few things right occasionally. After all, even a blind hog finds an acorn now and then.
Larry I guess we are just to old because the M203 Grenade Launcher, Grenade was not in use when I was there. Those “young” whipper snappers” had all the luxuries. We had to do it the hard way. They will never understand our hard work ethic.
Didn’t they have grenade rifle attached launchers in WWII & Korea?
The 203 was one of the few things the Army did right. Heck, it’s still in use today. I always wanted a pair of legs for it so it could be used as a 40mm trench mortar. 🙂
One of the more memorable times I was walking point was in a triple can-of-piss (pee) jungle and I was ordered to take an unchartered route thru the jungle. I was chopping jungle with a machete to make a trail and making about 100 yards an hour working my behind off. The CO kept calling wanting to know what was going on and we explained what we was having to do, but it had little effect on his impatience. I was so worn out and tired of his shit and replied to his about 10th call of why is it taking so long that I told him “If you do not like it get your ass up here and help chop our way out of your stupid behind ideaâ€. Lt Ruesch told me that I was in deep shit for saying that. But you know what? I never heard another thing out of our glorious Captain Gardner that day. But I will give him this; we did not hit any booby traps that day and I slept well that night.
Larry: I did that once too. I mean ALL DAY chopping through brush a fly couldn’t get through. That night, I was so tired I just sort of fell over in a heap.
How tired was I? So tired that we got mortared that night and I slept right through it! I’m told 10 or 12 rounds hit inside and outside our little perimeter, but I never missed a snore.
Gary
I slept thru a firefight once. I think it was that day I watched Larry chop his way thru the jungle all day. I mean that really wore me out…
Does any one have any “walking point” stories. To this day I remember my first time as a “newbie”. I was carrying the M-79 and when my turn came up I put a canister round in & walked point. Later it hit me I would only have one shot. No one offered me an M-16 nor did I asked for one. Guess my job was to catch the first rounds of an ambush. What can you say. I was green as grass & a newbie.
I carried a 203, so I had a full mag and a buckshot round.
Wow, Cap! I looked up the 203 and saw it was an attachment for the M-16. I never saw one of these in my tour. I saw where it came out in 1969, but I guess it didn’t get to Charlie Company until after I left. I left field on July 24, 1970.
Like riding a bicycle, you never forget. Happy Birthday Ben! You don’t look a day over 69.
Happy 70th birthday to Ben Buehler a few days ago!
Happy B-Day, Ben. Hard to believe a crusty ol’ grunt like you can still run marathons!
Happy Birthday Ben. You still have the good eyes. It was just 4 years ago you spotted that booby trap wire near my front door.
Those were your 66 year old eyes. Here I thought I could have gotten you and Larry with one trap.
I was walking point that day and I told Ben that’s strange a horizontal spider web support line at the top of your stair case. He looked and said “stop, that’s not a spider web, that’s a trip wire”. You did not even come close to getting us. You were so disappointed we saw the trip wire!
Has anyone heard from Top Silverman lately?
The last I heard from Top Silverman was that he was going to try and make it to the Minnesota reunion. Other than that, I do not think I have heard from him much since he attended the St. Louis reunion in 2009.
I got a email from Top Washington a while back and he said that he will be attending the reunion in Seattle. He was our Top Sgt just before Top Silverman. I think Top Washington was there until about January, 1970.
Loved you dress with the thigh high slit.
Short Round, when you open the reunion tab above it shows two other tabs to open. One is the core group 1964-1970 and the other one is core group 1970-1974. It is the later core group reunion in May. When I opened it to see what you are talking about it does say May.
Well said!
larry–i just checked reunions and it said 2 are in September . what is in May–other than your corns ?
any rex updates ? i heard he likes watering corn.
nice 80 plus degree weather this week–even a couple new record highs. thankfully no rucksack to help enjoy heat.
Like it says above, “This website was set up to promote social and welfare activities of all the Jungle Warriors who “faced the fire†with the Charlie Company or were attached to the company in the Republic of Vietnam.†I feel that our annual reunions attempt to do more of the same purpose this web site intends. There are two reunions this year and I do not like the idea of putting labels on the reunions. But I am afraid if I do note list core group years someone may not end up at the reunion they intended. I have labeled one group “core group 1964-1969 and another one “core group 1970-1973â€. I think a lot of the earlier division issues did not involve any of the active participants of our reunions. We all did about the same thing, all the difference was the year you were born and when you got drafted (or for some joined). Some of us are older and some of us are younger, but we did pretty much have done the same thing. We all came home and experienced the same thing only in different years. Like the Beatles used to sing “He say I know you, you know me, One thing I can tell you is, You got to be free, Come together, right now.â€
I have attended both groups’ reunions and they are equally enjoyable and we basically do the same things at the reunions, only at different times of the year at different locations. The core group 1970-1973’s reunion is in May. I will not be able to attend this reunion as I will be helping with planting 1,200 acres of irrigated corn.
Check out the reunion tab on this web site for the details that are available on the 2016 reunions.
Chuck….That was funny!
Ty,
Mine came two days ago. Have read it & really enjoyed it.
Thanks, Bill B! You fellas inspired me ! Everyone has been extremely gracious. Enough about me … what is everyone else doing?
Ty, a really great piece of work. Short, simple and right on point. You’ve created something about us that will live long after us. Our demographic will never be duplicated. I appreciate it very much. Thank You
Ty ….I got your book in the mail yesterday….It brought back a few memories…. I experienced almost everything that you wrote about over there except the boom -boom…..Best wishes, Bill
Very kind, Bill. Thanks! Take it to the next reunion and have everyone sign it for you. Makes for great memories.
Bill
It appears that the only Boom, Boom you got was in the form of a booby trap…..
I was pulling for broncos all the way, but that missed field goal by the panthers cost me 50 bucks. the wife says that picture doesn’t look like me. now she knows I live a double life!
I am assuming this is Sipps not Scanlon. For those of you that do not know what he is referring to on the picture not looking like him. I get a farm magazine that had a front cover photo of a guy that would pass as Tom Sipps. I sent the cover to Tom Sipps. I can’t figure out why his wife thinks he leads a double life if the photo does not look like him. If the missed field goal cost you $50, how much did the fumbles cost you? They must have been a lot of money.
Great game yesterday glad the Broncos won. Superman sure turned out to be sore loser with no class.
Yea for my Broncos! I am so happy that we don’t have to put up with superman bull shit for eight months.