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LT
How do you cook them skeets? I was just up at the Rock River near Byron for my anual shootout. I took second place. Not bad for not shooting since last year. Will practice this year to make you proud next year.
My thanks for the service you all did for our country and a special thanks to all of you who helped me make it home. Happy veterans Day. Stay safew.
Larry,
How close does Amtrak come to Walsh?? My thoughts are to all Vets on Veterans Day! Heading for Applebees???
Rock,
You need to get up there and shoot some of them skeets!!!
Happy Veterans day everyone. I’m leaving tomorrow for Larrys and some R&R.
Happy Veterans day to all veterans and those presently serving in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Larry,
I assume you will be sipping ice tea & playing cards of “old maid”. Real hunting is when they shoot back. I remember those days of “real hunting”. Enjoy and the best ever weekend of visting.
Bill
My big pheasant hunt is this weekend. We are expecting 27 guys. At 7 a.m. tomorrow, I am picking Rex Allen up off Amtrack. Thursday, Wally Searight and his son in law will arrive. We will have the Baca County skeet shooting championships on Friday afternoon. Friday night we are having prime rib supper mixed in with sipping a few and some cards. On Saturday pheasant hunting opens. We should have our one day limit of 81 birds by noon. Saturday night we will cook some of what we shoot for supper. Then sip a few and play some cards. Sunday, repeat.
enjoy. eat a couple of those for me. down a few for those that can’t make it hope you had a great Vets Day everyone.
Ben:
I think I have Tom Hadley traced to Brazil, Indiana, but I cannot get him to answer anything.
Art:
Your name should now show up with your photos.
LT, don’t know who the third guy may be. Ty has looked and can’t ID him either. Blew up the original and can’t quite make out the name tag. I don’t remember him as being assigned to us.
Pictures posted to the immediate right: Top right, I have a photo very similar, may be the same one (April 1970). When we NL near a village, the CO at that time always ordered me to round up civilians to bring back to the perimeter, hoping we would not get mortared. That is a war crime and I am not proud. Lower left – I agree that is Sgt Mihn. I wonder what ever happened to him. Lower right looks like Tom Hadley (Hoosier, Squad Leader in 3rd Platoon) blowing a dud round (late 1970). Anybody know where he is today?
Ben do you what the name of the Lt shown with Ty and I in your last photo is?
Larry, these new ones are the ones i sent you, the photos of the single viet namese was sgt minh our interpreter for charlie co. gill is in one of them with another 2nd platoon i for got who the demo guy was. the black and white photo was from kham duc at our perimeter. the airstrike was for b company at the runway. the viet and the grunt i thought were the kit carson scout and a lt they are from 1970.
horrible what happened in FT. Hood. you never know. well wishes to all living brothers and a hearty SALUTE to those who have gone home.
cliff stueve swagger= to walk with confidence
Larry:
I responded to your most recent e-mail. Did you get that one?
I have been uploading photos and trying to get everyone identified in photos. I would like you guys to look at the photo section and help me with identifying people in photos and identifying where the photos were taken and the approximate date. I have a section called unknown, I cannot remember where the photos came from, but I would like to know. I think they came from someone from 2nd platoon in the 69-70 time era, but I do not know.
Larry:
I tried to respond to your e-mail, but it bounced back as undelivered.
Try again or call me tonight (Friday) at about 1800 hours.
LT, thanks for thinking of me.
I did my OJT at Ft Polk, summer of 69, training an AIT platoon. Thought it did me well after I got to VN. Several years ago my son brought home a movie from where he worked titled “Tigerland”. Unvoluntarily it took me back to that summer of 69. As in the movie I did get one guy out of the Army.
Ben,
I will do my annual duty to my fellow vets by standing outside the local post office selling Buddy Poppies tomorrow.
Guys! I just got an email today from USAA saying that they were now opening their doors to all veterans who served honorably regardless of length of service. I have been with them for forty years and am real pleased with their rates and service. If you are in need of insurance for life, car or home give them a look see!
40 years ago today I was 2 days shy of a year in the field. Stayed 2 more weeks to get an early out thinking the Army would not keep me in the field for two extra weeks. That is what a Spec 4 gets for thinking. They did keep me in the field for two more weeks & I got even with the Army, the VC, & the NVA. I lived.
I wonder if the later (post 1967) C 2/1 uniform still included the Semper Primus epaulet badge. This is from Always First and shared with the 3/1, 11th LIB.
Shown here
http://www.uniforms-4u.com/Productimages/9242/small-u-army-1st-infantry-unit-crest-10983.jpg
If it is part of everyone’s uniform, there is room for it right under the burning worm on the Home page.
Sorry Brandon, I’m sure you have plenty else to do.
Jim:
Yep. I stayed right there for LPC (Leadership Preparation Course, which made me a Squad Leader) and Infantry AIT at North Fort in A 4/3. I should have just rented an apartment downtown as I turned out to be nearly a Louisiana citizen anyhow! LOL
After that, it was off to Germany where the Army, in it’s infinite wisdom, made the gunner on an M-60 tank with C Co, 2/37th Armored, 4th Armored Division. What the hell, right? Train me as Infantry, then put me on a damned tank! But, I fooled ’em. Fired 3rd best in the Battalion on the annual tank gunnery range at Grafenwoher! I would have captured the top honors, but I missed one silouhete target with the co-axial machinegun.
After 5 months there, I found myself with Charlie Company, after a 45 day leave in The World.
Serving in Vietnam with the guys I served with was a blessing from God.
Gary you must have stayed right there for AIT? I was there for OJT right after NCO school.
Forty years ago, at this very hour, I was on a plane to Ft. Polk, LA to begin basic training.
FORTY YEARS! Good Lord!
All- hope the VA stuff gets handled for you all- I claimed again 3 months ago and haven’t heard anything after sending them 9 months of my dialysis labs. As to the ill I hope all are getting well …larry’s wife. and Bruno. As to the photos- emailed with Ben B. and that may have been his SKS. I was married and didn’t take any graphic pictures or write down any of the stuff. Thats all the photos I can find as the kids and ex-wife have some and the rest???
LT- I wasn’t issued a booney hat so I bought a cheap one at Hawk Hill so I wouldn’t have to wear that steel pot all the time. Those cheap hats never held up. And Britt says Hi back= just got back from having wekly dinner with her and the grand daughter. Hope all is well with you.
Rock:
WTF! Just like 40 years ago, instead of a pat on the back for 99% of the things done right, here comes the kick to the doodads for the 1% that might be incorrect. I still love ya anyway :>)
Thanks Ben, I will check it out. Have a good one.
John McCabe, go to Charlie Tigers link from this page. They have a site similar to ours. I went there a couple weeks ago for info on a KIA friend of mine and within a couple days I was in contact with a fellow grunt that served with him – with the details of how he was lost.
Greetings. I have a good friend and former co-worker who served in C 3/21. He did his training at Fort Drum and Camp Devens. He has recently been stretching his on-line legs and I have been assisting him with trying to contact former soldiers he may have served with. His name is Richard Williams from Utica NY (where he currently resides) and he was stationed at Tay Nihn. He was hit on Nov. 3rd 1966 ( 43 yrs ago today, and it is the only day he “celebrates”) during Operation Attleboro. If anyone knows/remembers him or would like to contact him please let me know. Thank you and have a safe and happy holiday to all you Gimlets out there! Also, does anyone know of Capt. (at that time) Russell DeVries’ status or location?
John