Vietnam

[jawjaboy]

Vietnam feller here. '69-'70. Your United States Navy. Amphibs, da real Navy! Brown water, coastal, rivers. Proudly served. Honorably discharged 1972. :patriot:

You?

[AlPackin]

Vietnam 70-71, RA, 67U2F, 1st Aviation Brigade, ASHC, SP5.
Regular Army enlisted, Chinook Flight Engineer, !st Aviation Brigade, 179th, 196th, 243rd Assault Support Helicopter Companies, Specialist 5th Class (don't think that rank exists anymore),Honorable Discharge 1972

[Anvil]

I respect the hell outa you guys! I never served in the military myself. I'm trying to make it up on the back end in law enforcement.

[lcarreau]

Did you get to meet Kerry? :)

[Con43]

Did you get to meet Kerry? :)
Never did meet Big John when I was there but then we tried to stay away from people with cameras unlike Kerry.

[Jammer Six]

I did the same thing over seas. Now I wish I had a few pictures of my shiny ass overseas.

[kidcop]

They called a cease fire in Nam when I was in Boot camp. I didn't miss the Storm though.

I do have a great deal of respect for those who did serve in nam though. I think if we had stuck it out a little longer and let the Military do their job, things would have been much different.

[AlPackin]

They called a cease fire in Nam when I was in Boot camp. I didn't miss the Storm though.

I do have a great deal of respect for those who did serve in nam though. I think if we had stuck it out a little longer and let the Military do their job, things would have been much different.

nah, more time wouldn't have helped, the military DID it's job, it just wasn't winnable from the start. Lot's of elites got rich though.

[unclebob]

67,68 69 Korat Thailand loaded bombs etc. on the F105 aircraft. 71-72 Ubon Thailand Gunner AC130A/E gunship. 73 Korat Thailand loaded bombs again. 73- 75 Korat Thailand Back to flying. 75-91 Gunner on the AC-130 E/H Hurlburt Field Florida. Also flew combat missions in Grenada and Panama and a couple of others. Retired in Feb of 91. 25 1/2 years.

[Murphy's Law]

1964-1982 and retired SCPO (sparks/radioman). Many ships but all time served on the West coast. First four years in the Tokin Gulf or better known as Viet Nam providing NGFS (Naval Gun Fire Support). ALso served USS Oriskany CVA-34 Aircraft carrier. Bad explosion off Nam cost over 100 of my shipmates. My years in service were the best time of my life...hands down. Now have many a story for my grandchildren.

[zipper046]

USNR - 1999 - Present. Intelligence Officer. Two tours after 9/11, 1 in Iraq, the other INCONUS & OCONUS. Did some work with Amphib's (they call them MIUW's and IBU's now - Mobile Inshore/Undersea Warfare Units and Inshore Boat Units)...quirky bunch, but Freakin' A-1 all the way.

[kostner]

Vietnam 66-67 101st Airborne 2/327 Still have problems from that adventure but would serve again. Have noticed a lot of young woman at the VA hospital in the mental health clinic. Hope they get the help they need.

[BoltNut]

Only a son of a Navy man (late WWII ana early Korea), then he went into the Coast Guard on the Great Lakes (where he ran into mom in the U.P.)...that's where I eventually came into the story! :-)

Love you guys, and respect you with every drop of free blood flowing in my veins!!!

[lonedog]

DAT (dumb-@$$ tanker) 4th Combat Engineers, 4th Inf Div -- Central Highlands, Cambodia 69-70. Some of you may have seen our 88 -- "Mission Impossible". The fastest biggest baddest tank in the war.

[SCmasterblaster]

1974-80 USN Seventh Fleet USS Rowan DD-782. We were plane-guarding the USS Midway CV-41 during Operation Frequent Wind - the emergency evacuation of Saigon on 28-29Apr75. I saw far too many emptied US-built helicopters being pushed over the side of CV-41 after the people were welcomed aboard the carrier. They floated long enough to pass my destroyer. I saw the fore-lorn faces of many South Vietnamese refugees. And to think that we are about to do the same thing to the Iraqis. This memory is quite intense for me, enough to be one of the very few things remaining in my memory after a traumatic brain injury on 18Jun08. The USS Midway is now a San Diego tour ship; one ady I will go see it. The USS Rowan was sold to the Formosan Chinese, who promptly ran it aground and abandoned it.