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My wife returned back home again yesterday from rehab facilty. She has to take strong pain killers, but can walk with a walker. She will have to go to physical therapy a couple of times a week……Good luck on your operation, Chuck……..Short Round…..140 lbs?….That’s about how much I am over my ideal weight.
Short Round and Russ, Rocky lives on the east coast of Fla. I e-mailed him a few months ago; he seemed to be having some family problems. By the way, I gave him the Rocky nickname Tooch
Guys,
I need to correct my previous entry. DEROS stands for date eligible to return from overseas!
Short Round
Bill, Larry and myself eat 140 pounds at breakfast……..
a comment on earlier ones. any person that has not opened a olive green can, to see a muther (lima bean) staring back at him, hasn`t lived a full life.
russ–did you DEROS from the kham duc resort site we are at in july/aug ? that was the brass idea of grunts getting a extended stand down.
any chance you`ll meet up with rocky or ron hurst from 1st platoon ? both in FL.
while traveling overseas, see if you can get some slightly used knees at a good price.you should be able to sell them for a good profit at the reunion. heard some grunts are looking for them. at 140 lbs my knees are doing ok,better than my teeth.
SR…..I was short when the company went to Kham Duc, so Ty put me up on West to run sorties to you. I was riding them out, til we almost got shot down, so I finished my days drinking cold beers on beautiful LZ West.
Isn’t Rocky over on the east coast..?. I’m on the Gulf side on Sanibel. Don’t know where Horse is……. Haven’t talked to him since he got back to Lewis in 70.
I don’t remember Ron Hurst..?
Russ,
It stands for Date (maybe estimated) Return Overseas
Russ,Are you coming to Rapid City?
Hey Ken…….I will let you know by next week. I would really like to go, but I’m currently down in Florida recharging the batteries for a brutal August/September travel schedule to asia and central America, which finishes with a few days to pack for Rapid City. So not sure yet.
What did DEROS stand for again..?
Bill,
Sounds good to me. Lake George sounds good.
August 1st has been a special day for me for 42 years. And when i’m asked why, very few human beings on the the plant know the word DEROS.
I arrived in-country Jan 4 1970 after a 30 day Christmas leave of Holiday partying weighing a pretty heavy 6-3, 240 lbs. Left in April for Camp Zama Hospital in Japan weighing 160 lbs…….Now I wish I could get back down to 240…..Yes LT, I am willing if you guys want to come. Either Lake George or Saratoga are close to where I live. If anyone is a race horse fan, the Saratoga track season is every August.
Lurch,
Sounds to me like you are volunteering to host a reunion in NY?
Gary
When I left country I was 6 foot 2 inches and 145 pounds. my ribs were showing but I was very healthy. Today, two of us walk in the same pair of shoes if you know what I mean.
Gary,
I weighted 190 lbs on 5′ 11″ frame and 173 when I got back. Now I look like the Good Year blimp. My grand kids want to use me in parades.
C-rats provided something on the order of 5000 calories a day, heavy in proteins….IF you got to eat 3 of them a day. That’s not enough to sustain a teenager or young adult undergoing heavy physical activity, but it was enough to keep us all from starving to death and being able to perform the mission, which was the overall goal. Living on mostly C-rats, I lost a lot of weight, but I can’t say how much. I CAN say that I weighed 155 lbs. on a 5’11” frame when I got home. Today, I weigh as much as that PLUS a full rucksack, PLUS an M-60 machine-gun, PLUS 600 rounds of ammo. And, I don’t eat C’s any more. LOL
It is hard to be exact, but in the first year (’66-’67) we were in the field about 75% of the time, with C Rations providing maybe 80% of our nutrition.
As distasteful as they were on occasion, swearing off them was not an option.
Wow! Seven weeks and I’ll be in Rapid City, SD. I hope we have a real good turn out! I don’t think you could have dented a John Wayne bar with a blow torch.
Chuck, I have decided to get my knee done after the reunion as it is getting real hard to walk. Hope yours comes out great!
Gary, amen to that!
I left the ham and mothers and, sometimes, the ham and eggs unopened for the dinks. Let THEM gag and get the shits! 🙂
I have to say I may have open lima beans & ham once but never ate them the whole time. Threw them away. Couldn’t even trade them.
Tooch….. Don’t you remember the hard chocolate candy bars and the ham and lima beans in C-rats?….Maybe you traded them for peaches or cigarettes?
Bill, the only things I took from c-rats were peanut butter, cocoa, cigs, and jellied pork. Mom sent me a good supply of chef boy-ar-dee spagetti. When we started getting that dehydrated garbage, I swore off c-rats .Tooch
chuck-uhhhhh–have some cpt morgan already or did LT or bill, or larry teach you to spell ? its “immune”. hmmmm–good question–can a john wayne be melted–any 1 know ? i`ve heard some have survived rpg hits.
yes valley fever is an AZ thing. maybe chuck got it when jogging when it was 120 degrees out there. your immune system must have been strengthend by some ham and muthers. good all is well–looking forward to your knees.
What the hell is a john wayne bar, and what are ham and muthers?
Are we getting old or what?
Chuck……Somebody up there likes you….. Glad you caught a break !
Chuck,
That is the best news I have heard in a long time! What the heck is Valley Fever? Is that an Arizonian affliction?
congrats on the good news u all..
SR
No cancer on the lungs. It turns out the nodule had Valley Fever in it. What was there was dead which means my amune system knocked it out. Looking good. As for the knees and the reunion, there are two ways we can approach it. 1. Cut a slit above each knee cap and slide in a thick slice of hard salami for the bones to ride on…….. 2. Cut a small hole on the side of each knee, melt down a John Wayne bar (if that is possible) and squirt it into the joint. The lifespan of a John Wayne bar is close to 273 years. I’ll need a little Cpt. Morgan with either proceedure.
chuck–so i take it the lung thing is ok. correct ? can we do your knee surgery on a table at the reunion in sept ?
my 5 yr ch-up is coming up in Aug–it won’t be 5 yrs till Nov-22..they want to get ahead of the rush..
Thanks guys for the good wishes. Bill, the way they found the spot on my lung was from a pre opp x-ray I had taken 4 days before I was supposed to have a total knee replacement. Good luck to your wife and let me know how that goes. Anything has to be better than this bone on bone.