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My unit 4th/31st, Charlie Company was volunteered to go to Kham Duc in July/August 1970. Kham Duc was not part of my units AO. We set up our perimeter near/along the tarmac. I am looking for a name of a guy who served with the units whose AO was Kham Duc that was KIA by friendly fire. I don’t have a precise date other than it was in July/August 1970. The incident that happened was that my squad was patrolling an area over by where the rubber plantation and old locomotive was out in front of our perimeter. Before returning to our perimeter we left a mechanical claymore behind. When we got back to our perimeter the claymore went off so we turned around to go back out there to see what caused the claymore to go off. If I remember right we found 3 guys laying on the ground. They had tripped the wire to the claymore. Two were wounded and one was killed. I’m looking for the name of the guy who was killed. It was my understanding back then that the guy who was killed was a short timer and had a week or just days left in Nam. I know this is a long shot in finding his name but any help on this matter is much appreciated.
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You had lie down while the rest of us had stand down
Bill,
We left HH on 1 March 70 for Chu Lai and stand down. That was my first one but I didn’t make it and spent 3 days in 23Med with fever or unkown origin!
LT emailed me a copy of CIB orders dated 2/24/70 with both our names on it. I did not recognize any other names from Charlie Company. I have a vague memory of an awards ceremony. Does anybody remember if we were on Stand Down in late February 1970?
Bill,
It sure is a small world!
Hey Bill Beckum….My father worked in the A&P Meat Plant in Elmsford. He commuted from Fordham Rd in the Bronx. Around 1972 my parents bought a house in Mahopac and the old man commuted from there. I stayed in the Bronx in the cheap rent conrolled apartment, but I visited them often. Mahopac was a nice place……It’s a small world.
i do not send out intenional SPAM if you recieve any from this address it was picked up somewhere in the realms besides my mail box—sry —wishing all a good day
Jim,
I believe it was all three we would go for some great scenery. Once on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving and before I moved to Mahopac I had to drive from Elmsford to E. Setauck which was around 84 miles & the LIE was one big parking lot. It took me 3 1/2 hours across the north shore. Will never forget that trip.
No real north shore highway. Northern State parkway parallels the LIE though I think it crosses it in two places and is north of it and south of it in different sections but not by that much.
Norhern east-west road is Route 25, which is all lights and stuff. North of that is 25A, which is more scenic and slower.
for those of you who don’t know NY suburb traffic. An hour ride is often about 20 miles! A 60-mile trip to New York City at rush hour is about 2 and one half hours. My frien in Montana goes about 140 miles in that amount of time!
No wonder it moved so slow! We all thought we each were on point. In the early 80’s it was said the average speed during rush hour was 7 mph. Can anyone tell me the highway across the north shore? Can not remember the name.
Bill and Jim: I drove a truck all my adult life and made many, many a trip out the LIE as far as Farmingville and back again. And, Sunrise Hwy too. Who knows? We might have all been side by side!
The good old LIE!
Okay Bill. I guess we never crossed paths,e xcpet maybe sitting in traffic on the LIE!
Jim
Jim,
I worked for GE in what was prior the old “News Day” building on the south shore. This would have been 81-83. From 83-84 worked for GE in Elmsford, NY. From there moved to Kansas City, MO in 84.
Hi Tucc.
Interesting. I just heard the other day that the middle finger goes back at least 2500 years. One story says that the Normans (or someone) if captured would get their middle finger chopped off by the enemy so they could not shoot a bow & arrow. In order to antagonize the enemy (if they hdn’t been captured) they would hold up the middle finger to show it off. Pretty cool and relatively innocent way to start a curse.
Jim, here’s another one. The flushing toilet was invented by an englishman by the name of Thomas Crapper.
Here is some useless info. on the F word. 15th century England, in order to consumate a marriage; written approval from the king was needed. It was called Fornication Under Consent of the King.
Jim
Your post was just fine…… Worry not.
Hey….. Fine is an “F” word……. Go Figure…… There I go again with another one.
I better finish this posting.
Jim: It didn’t bother me.
Bill Beckum. I live in Medford since 1975 and in my day-to-day travels fixing copy machines I have spent time and done business in all those places you mentioned. Highly unlikely that we met but what company did you work for? As a copier tech, I meet lots of people and there is a slight chance. it would be pretty funny.
Jim,
Ok here is the story. Did not know you lived so close to Port Jeff. Since you do, we actually lived in East Setauket and I worked in Lake Ronkonhoma. We lived there for 18 months. I then got transferred to White Plains, NY and we moved to Mahopic, NY in Putnam county for 9 months. Those were interesting times. Being from KY everyone thought I talked funny.
Tooch: Okie dokie.
My younger son, when he was about 22 or so, heard me “F” something (real good reason, I’m sure) and informed me that it ws the 5th time he had heard me say that. I still don’t say it to women, not even my wife, except in very special circumstances (not anger, but describing a movie scene or something). So, for a non-religious guy, I’m pretty good at keeping the cursing to a minimum.
Mark Twain said something like “You shouldn’t cuss too much because it takes the fun out of it when you really need to!”
I do have my own personal favorite curse which I save for very special occasions.
it is “F… and A Half!” I’m really proud of that.
Gary, I have not forgotten you,I’ll give you an update at the end of this week. Tooch
I remember using that “F” once in front of my Mom right after getting home from Vietnam out of habit. She turned around, never said a word to me, but gave me a look of disappointment that only a Mom can give. After that until this day that word has been gone out of my vocabulary 99.5%.
Slips out now and then when I am by myself.
chuck–if i remember correctly–F word usage doubled during monsoons–on average.
Well, fun me! Who the fun woulda thought that? Ya learn something’ new every funnin’ day, don’t you? I’ll just be funned.
YES, Gary!
So…FTA meant, “Fun The Army?”
🙂
I say the “F'” word all the time. I going to have “fun” doing this or that! Isn’t that the “F” word we used in Vietnam? This is fun getting soaked, humping, and ducking from enemy and friendly fire.