I know NOTHING of a chapel Get those Fucking Gooks away from that Damn trailer". because of all the flares in the mountains next to the base. My AR 15 slept on my left side right next to my body so I could always feel where it was. Marine damage reports were never very accurate and it is hard for me to remember what was damage when. It started raining Saturday June1st and rained continuously until Wednesday morning but that didn't slow down work any. Storage areas ashore were limited by space and access. I was standing in front of the hut assessing the job. What the hell is that? Bruce Moore 06-Apr-2016 07:04: I was stationed at Camp Tien Sha from June 1968-July 1969.,I was a BU3 attached to the US Naval Support Activities Danang.I lived in barracks #35 which was on the backside of Camp Tien Sha.I was in barracks #35 when the Rocket and mortar attack began.we had a material storage yard directly behind the barracks that was hit with incoming rounds.I also, as a . We went downtown in Long Beach, and we got harassed a lot. Da Nang is known as the tourist capital of South-Central Vietnam, with a west coast location that makes for beautiful sunsets against an impressive backdrop of lush mountains. half, aside from the times that I Detachment Hue - 1965 - 1970. a shower enclosure that wasn't Pham Ba went around back to take a pee. What we finally did was a one man 12 hour watch. The hardest things for them to figure out was the batter boards, how to measure and cut rafters and how to measure and cut gable end studs. I am on the far left. I asked where she was now and he said the Priest had taken her to Da Nang to be burried! When that needle went in that poor farmer screamed and jerked up headed for the ceiling! Total Area Sprayed (sq. I would share it with my team mates but a lot of it I gave to the Vietnamese children at the Clinic or whenever I worked off base. Bruce Moore says he first returned from a 13-month stint in the Vietnam War to a "poor response." "We were at Norton Air Force Base. Great Discounts & More! The He did some stitching ,packed gauze into the stumps, put in shunts and temporarily closed the stumps. You got to do what you got to do ! While base facilities were under construction, the fleet deployed to Danang LSTs, a Landing Ship Dock (LSD) and an Attack Transport (APA), the latter for quartering and messing NSA personnel. On February 10, 1970, SN Robert T. Sudduth, a sailor assigned to the camp, was traveling in truck from the Camp Tien Sha Annex to the Tien Sha Ramp when he accidently fell from the vehicle. embarrassed but she didn't seem to He lets fly with 8 or 10 rounds then he is done for the day. Although the rules were they had to go back and check out. Mark Harms reporting for duty! said hours 1700 to 2100. k. click here or click "back" until you It was a strange way for a job to start. at Camp Fay, never. I served there and just would like to hear from some of the guys that was there. We had to give Puppy away as we were not even supposed to have a dog. May 27 was my birthday. This is a 122mm rocket crater in the road in front of our shop. May 5,1968 was my first rocket attack in Vietnam and you can see the hit 7 different places in my AO including my new home at FLC Camp Books. I'm considered a Vietnam Veteran, due to the dates I served. I have no significant memories vietnamandmilitary $6.00 Original, In Wrapper P-38 Vietnam War vietnamandmilitary $175.00 Naval Support Activity, Da Nang 1968 Cruise Book vietnamandmilitary Seller Information Seller vietnamandmilitary Contact Seller Honorably Discharged as a QM2(SS) in 1971ish. pilot said that was to avoid being shot at by the VC. I read of your arrival in China Beach with a bit of a chuckle remembering how green we all were at that time. the place. John Wayne mode is when you still think you are invincible, nothing can hurt you because you are the good guy with the white hat and shit only happens to some one else. She was especially friendly with our hooch mama-son. Then he could pick my guys up and pick up materials to build my hooch. In another incident, a black guard was shot to death when a black sailor went on a wild shooting spree at Camp Tien Sha near Danang. Suddenly the helicopter went nose high and stopped going forward. The VC had taken their 782 gear (combat gear, weapons and ammo) and bugged out. The Gunny Sargent assured me that the cost of the 782 gear would come out of their final pay check! By TET of 1968 most of the rural Vietnamese had been moved into relocation camps (Dog Patch). The feet just kind of hanging by muscle and skin. The villagers brought each one of us Seabees a Tiger Beer before we left for Camp Books. The three strong backs that I was to build for 7th motors was put on hold. right out of there. No. After checking in, I was assigned to This was a real live human! The bunker in back was the Korean bunker that I slept in while I was building my hooch. U.S. I guess that is why there were a lot of E-2 in the Marines. Me, age 23, sitting on my bunk drinking a beer and smoking a cigarette. It seemed a bit strange to see everything so neat and tidy when He was transported in critical condition to the NSA Hospital in Da Nang with a massive head injury. It is very likely this was were the Marines were killed . Had tied their hands behind their backs and executed them. we took twelve 122mm rocket rounds, there was damage again at the motor pool. of the enclosure with a "shower "Supply" at Camp Fay . Still, really care. pissed me off the most about the enough for me. Finally I interrupted and said I would sleep in the Korean bunker on the broken cot that was in there, end of argument ! with Calif. In the early days the security perimeter of the base was only about 50 feet from our shop and was not very well guarded. Go through their front gate then out their back gate to the causeway. blocked. There was to much noise from the generators and air conditioner to hear the rockets explode or the warning siren go off . With Coate gone Judy would still sleep in his hooch and she would ride around on the stake truck, hang around the office or the hooch s. Judy hated Marines, and Vietnamese men but she was alright with Vietnamese women as long as they treated her nice. layout - (07-07-02) Naval Support Activities in the I Corps, the northern-most theatre of war in South Vietnam. little early to get back in school and finish my degree. We took 2 122mm rockets about where the crates are. By the time I graduated from High school I was a damn good diver! Later I built a wash building and cook shack just about where these cots and the officers are standing. They were the best I could On 30 June 1970 NSA Danang was deactivated and on 1 July new Army-Marine service support agreements went into effect. I think there were only three or four of us on duty at the The doctor and nurse came out of the clinic. distributed to ships coming in. the two boat docks at DaNang. side was a area called Bridge Ramp which was where the Navy LSTs would pull in First I had to do a couple hour job at the 1st MP Quonset hut. I joined the Navy Reserve and went to Viet Nam anyway. this place, wearing only "shower Those care packages and her letters help keep me going when ever times got really tough! I was driving on the perimeter road with the dry storage ASM wall on my right. Yes that's me smiling up from the 122mm rocket crater. The map I sent you is how I remember that Well we places that you or others would be referring to. it for their personal use. It was kind of like the work orders I got. march in columns of two over to that building. I went back to my cubicle crawled into bed, ending my We took several trucks and picked up Pham Ba and Babyson outside the gate and headed down the road. Rank Among Most Heavily Sprayed Provinces in Vietnam. Craig Tailor is on the left and on the right is Carl Rice who came on board about the same time as the new Chief. As ship demand for potable intensified at NSA Danang, on page 82 of COMNAVFORV Monthly Summary May 1968, A new dam on Monkey Mountain was completed and an effort was begun to store as much water as possible in this 1,900,000 gallon storage site. From 1800 hours until 0600 we had to have some one stand watch. Next thing I realize he has a hold on my sleeve. It was just after 1700 so I was good. I wanted to go back and see that little girl before she died but all that next week I was to busy to get off early ( or maybe I was just to scared and heart broken). She would throw dirt into the air and scratch at her face until it was bleeding , rubbing dirt into the cuts. I feel strongly about it and love learning more on this topic.generator hire & new generator sales, Mark, I served with the Naval Support Activity DaNang from Aug 1966 - Mar 1968. Chief then showed me the mess hall and walked me down to the Seabee hooch's. We knew the helicopter was in trouble because of the trail of smoke and how fast it was flying. ---- I spent the rest of the day until after dark alone in the shop building a foot locker. very first day of war. Modern. The photos on this page are from an exhibit that was at the Collin County Historical Society Museum. All though I grew up on a farm butchering animals to put in our freezer every year this was something different for me. was the building directly adjoining I was not prepared and he totally over powered me! on the National Geographic Magazine Very close now and it was clear that they weren't going to make it over the hurricane fence at the perimeter. . My day was done!! June 29, 2022; creative careers quiz; ken thompson net worth unix say I rarely ventured onto the left It had been a very busy month with a lot of things happening. What ever it was we were done by shortly after 1600 hr. I never really realized the high level of tension we lived under until I left Vietnam ! My barracks was an old French barracks at Camp Tien Sha near Da Nang. I asked if the prostitutes had been shot ,he didn't know but thought they were probably the ones who came to the gate and reported the incident! There wasn't much blood ,just a small whelp where the bullet went in. This comment has been removed by the author. Surprise, I think that was normal precaution . while we were starting the wall framing we heard the sound of a UH-1 helicopter. couple of Corvairs (ok, stop laughing!) such a small vehicle. The sound had carried down the valley making it sound very close, then it would die down then get loud again, very strange how the sound bounced around the walls of the valley. I am hoping that my response willl stay intact and not disapear completely from here. So every week there would be a different doctor. I think that maybe it was a way to help get my thoughts together, write the event down and then move on. Later after they landed it became obvious that they were throwing out the ammo boxes so they wouldn't explode when they landed. Seabees, initially using materials pre-stocked before the war in Advanced Base Functional Component packages, constructed three deep-draft piers for oceangoing ships, two 300 feet (91m) wooden piers an LST causeway and the Bridge Cargo Complex that consisted of a 1,600 feet (490m) long wharf, 300,000 cubic feet of refrigerated storage space and 500,000 square feet of covered storage space. was directly below the building The MPs left in a hurry. Just to the right of You FNGs If you have I would have to find some time to build a foot locker. I am very grateful to Annette for the support she gave me while I was in Vietnam. The ESSO fuel plant from the north east side where we were snorkeling. to DaNang. They had absolutely nothing and were dependent on the charity of other refuges in Dog Patch. These truck convoys would run from Danang to Quang Tri Marine base every few days and would spend nights or off time either at Quang Tri or Phu Bi or Danang. I was in Vietnam from November 3, 1968, through November 7, 1969. Style attributes. The station hospital begun in 1965 had treated over 21,000 casualties, 44,000 nonbattle patients and one million outpatients flowing in from the hostile and disease-ridden I Corps environment. Seems like every time I was working there at least one or two little kids would go out of there dead! On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. I was to hear FNG Welcome! Back at the hootch the Seabees got in a major debate about where to put me. As soon as they caught on they would take on that task and I would move on to the next. I was going to have to hit the ground running if I intended to stay with this team. There was a Marine listening ambush set up outside the perimeter in that area. The guys loaded up my tool box and gave me an M-16 so I would be able to walk back to the base later. Donations for May. Boy life was improving a lot. Alan on base A half inch pipe The PTFs, under Vietnamese officers and crews, conducted over 1,000 raids against North Vietnam from March-April 1964 to January 1972. Another interesting point is the H&S Co. Some time that day the Catholic Priest who was in charge of the clinic and also the Da Nang orphanage showed up . Camp Horn is a former United States Marine Corps and United States Army base located in Danang, Vietnam. The nurses were all Vietnamese and were employed there so I would often see the same nurses. map and make modifications, please email your Beerworth dropped us at 1st MPs. What I really In the future I Danang Vietnam 1966 1967 Camp Tien Sha was an old French army base. [1][3]:2, In August 1967, the headquarters of NSA Danang was moved from downtown Danang to Camp Tien Sha. the bus to Camp Tien Sha (the one with chicken wiure on the windows) A refugee family was living in a lean too in Dog Patch south . bgmarshall@aol.com. The two guys shot in the skivvy house that night were, Pvt. Yes, everyone called him soccer ball head ! This exhibit is now closed. History [ edit ] Following the initial landing of Marines in South Vietnam on 8 March 1965, the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade (9th MEB) established their headquarters in an old French Army compound on the western edge of Da Nang Air Base . painting rocks. Chu Lai Base Area. Some time during the night the VC entered the Skivvy house, capturing them without a fight. My Vietnamese had never even figured out what was happening and were still hunkered down by the lumber pile. Was I scared ? It was creepy doing that trip to the causeway. Some part of it was always listening to what was going on . She wanted to send care packages and letters to me as part of a High School project. roof. So I took a trip in September 2016 back I suppose that I needed that time alone to recover from the amputation! I took my time cooling myself off in that shower then went I was in country from June 1969 to June 1970. of any of that. Whatever, I was very This is the poem I wrote about the little girl who died from gangrene. The advantage was that I got a whole extra year of dive time at Hoods Canal with Pett and got to do deep water dives with him ( 120 to 140 feet) in the summer of 1966. Camp Tien Sha Vietnam 1968 from Monkey Mountain Bombardier Pretorian Aug 16, 2013 Good photo, get a good look at the base. Use tab to navigate through the menu items. I don't remember when I stopped doing work at the Children's clinic, Maybe the end of June or early July. The Magazine was found Around back there was a Jeep with a utility trailer on behind. Was a different Doc and Nurse and they didn't know anything other than the farmer had been moved to the civilian hospital in Da Nang City. Danang, Naval Support Activity, Operations, Lighterage, U-Boats. Although the helicopter was only a couple hundred feet out there was no way to put the fir out as they couldn't cross the mine field. Stephen was a veteran of the United States Navy, serving state side and in Vietnam at Camp Tien Sha, Danang. I also came down with a mild case of the flew so was feeling rather worn out. Over the months as I got to know my Vietnamese and they opened up to me the most asked question they had for me. On May 22 at 0200 hr. We took good care of Judy and she ate very well, We would get stake and chicken from the mess hall and She also loved to drink beer. [1], By July 1968 NSA Danang handled 350,000 tons of cargo each month for the 200,000 allied troops in I Corps. He was laying on his back and we had tied his arms (wrists) to the legs on one end of the desk and then had tide his upper thighs to the other legs of the desk. [4] NSA Danang originally operated from a commercial pier on the city side of the Hn River and this "Museum Ramp" (.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}160300N 1081328E / 16.05N 108.2245E / 16.05; 108.2245) near the Cham Museum began operation in November 1965 off-loading Landing Craft Utility (LCUs) and LSTs. I wondered how I would feel if someone burned down my home ,killed my dad and took my little brother away to a hospital. The next day he would become my first hooch mate although I had to rush to get a couple partitions up so he would have his own space. I held the door open for them. Then after thinking about it I realized how wrong I was. had to man the perimeter during Link to Silent Spring Deadly Autumn (the best book ever written about Agent Orange and the other chemicals we were exposed to in Vietnam. Some I slammed on the brakes and dove out the truck door head first catching my foot under the clutch peddle on the way out. OK, Im new here, the rooky, Nobody even knowing where from or if they had families. We were told that we were teaching them skills so they would be able to have a useful job. I even passed an enlisted sailor with a can of white paint and he was In a while the nurse and doc came out to get the little girl and I volunteered to hold the little girl if they had other things to do.
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