How many Vietnam Vets
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Topic: How many Vietnam Vets
Posted By: TMiller/NC
Subject: How many Vietnam Vets
Date Posted: 17 Mar 2019 at 3:38pm
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How many on the forum are Vietnam Vets and have gone back either on business or a visit? I am and have no desire to go back. |
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Posted By: Darrell G (MN)
Date Posted: 17 Mar 2019 at 3:55pm
| 3/65 to 5/66 and I got out of there once alive , I sure am not interested in going back. |
Posted By: Leon n/c AR.
Date Posted: 17 Mar 2019 at 5:00pm
| Feb.67-Feb68. No desire to go back. Leon |
Posted By: acd17toy
Date Posted: 17 Mar 2019 at 7:34pm
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I served from 1965 to 1967, but not in Vietnam.
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Posted By: Bob D. (La)
Date Posted: 17 Mar 2019 at 7:37pm
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I spent 13 months there + a few months extra on temporary duty assignments. No desire to ever return. I went in alive and in one piece and fortunately, returned the same. ------------- When you find yourself in a hole,PUT DOWN THE SHOVEL!!! |
Posted By: Hubert (Ga)engine7
Date Posted: 17 Mar 2019 at 8:13pm
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Never went over there and have no desire to go. Enlisted in the Air Force in July 70 , discharged in August 76 and enlisted in the Army Guard he very next day. I have the highest regard for everyone who honorably served over there and at times I feel I missed out by not being "invited" to spend some time over there. ------------- Just an old country boy saved by the grace of God. |
Posted By: Pat the Plumber CIL
Date Posted: 17 Mar 2019 at 9:19pm
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God bless everyone of you that went and all those who have served . An employee of my grandfather back in the day got drafted and he ran for Canada .My grandfather who served in WWI told my older brother and I that we should serve if our country calls on us . No ifs ands or butts about it . Again thank you for all that were called and went . Glad I was born when I was . ------------- You only need to know 3 things to be a plumber;Crap rolls down hill,Hot is on the left and Don't bite your fingernails 1964 D-17 SIV 3 Pt.WF,1964 D-15 Ser II 3pt.WF ,1960 D-17 SI NF,1956 WD 45 WF. |
Posted By: Michael V (NM)
Date Posted: 17 Mar 2019 at 10:02pm
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what Pat said,, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE,, my age did not correspond with any conflict, all though I did register as required and would have proudly served if asked.. side note,,, step daughter works for Disney On Ice, is a world traveler,, she seems to like Thialand a lot,,
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Posted By: thendrix
Date Posted: 17 Mar 2019 at 10:11pm
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As the last couple said, thank you to all who served! ------------- "Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan |
Posted By: desertjoe
Date Posted: 17 Mar 2019 at 10:29pm
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A good friend of mine was, sadly, the first casualty in Vietnam from New Mexico. He didn't tell the truth when he volunteered while still a junior in high school at age 17 and gave his life for what he believed in. We were so caught up in the happening, a bunch of us from Artesia volunteered to the Navy fresh out of high school in May of 1965. We were going to pay em back for Sammy. As it happened, I was the only'ist one out of the group that didn't make it due to failing their hearing test 4 times before the base Commander sent me back home, promising to take me a a couple of years when their standards were lowered. They classified me 4F and like he said,,in two years, they "offered" to allow me to volunteer to change to 1Y and be elgible to go,,,,I told him I was no longer interested,,,lots of mixed emotions bout that war,,,,so many innocent lives lost,,,,,,,,,,
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Posted By: klinemar
Date Posted: 17 Mar 2019 at 11:19pm
| Thanks for serving! I never did. Registered for the draft. My dad a WW2 vet told me not to volunteer he did! Nixon started the volunteer army and I got married! I knew many that did go. One got wounded and some are showing the wounds now with Agent Orange! |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 18 Mar 2019 at 1:32am
| I never had to go, medical reasons |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 18 Mar 2019 at 1:56pm
| Army 67 - 69 but never had to go over. Thank You All that served for your service. |
Posted By: weiner
Date Posted: 18 Mar 2019 at 2:10pm
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Volunteered for draft May of 63 to May of 65, Ft Carson, Colorado. Never went over there. My company went over couple of months after I was discharged. I still can`t believe that I was not extended. ------------- Real heros wear dogtags, not capes. |
Posted By: Coke-in-MN
Date Posted: 18 Mar 2019 at 2:13pm
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Seems I server in Navy 62 to 64 - now unofficial the carrier I was on MIGHT have been in the area - Them PRACTICE NAPALM canisters we filled with AvGas never met land - Them Anti-personnel ordnance that looked like dimascus wire wound canisters - though the wires had little cuts every so often to kind of shred - well they went on a one way trip also . As did some other odd things from the bowels of the magazines on board - seems 500 and 1,000 lb objects hung under Spads and Scooters also made one way trips somewhere in the South China Sea area where were weren't at . Officially it seems a little after i got off something called Gulf Of Tonkin got into the news and the first air strikes (Officially) were launched from same carrier . No desire to see the area again - including the Philippines - though Japan might be OK ------------- Life lesson: If you’re being chased by a lion, you’re on a horse, to the left of you is a giraffe and on the right is a unicorn, what do you do? You stop drinking and get off the carousel. |
Posted By: Jon NW Iowa
Date Posted: 18 Mar 2019 at 7:34pm
| Drafted into Marines 1969 thru 1971. Trained to go but never had to go over. |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 18 Mar 2019 at 9:12pm
| I think and remember the gals that served in the nursing corps. Man those gals did some work. |
Posted By: JoeO(C-MO)
Date Posted: 18 Mar 2019 at 9:21pm
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A THANK YOU to all who served! A controversial action that is still questioned today! I joined the Air Force Jun '60 , 4 years active and 2 years inactive, discharged June 66. I put in for overseas duty but never got out of the grain belt region, never did. When I went inactive I had heard a few things in the news. A few months after going inactive the recruiters stopped at my place of employment offering MONEY to come back, I never did get back to them!! Thank you for your service!!!
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Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 18 Mar 2019 at 9:26pm
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From late 68 till mid 71, a member of the Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club. A proud member of the US Navy, aboard the USS Waddell, DDG-24. Don't and Won't go back. NO thanks. Thank YOU to ALL who served, no matter WHERE you were. We weren't given a choice where we served, so if you were in the States, Europe or where ever, THANK you! ------------- "Allis-Express" 19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17 |
Posted By: Kenny L.
Date Posted: 18 Mar 2019 at 11:07pm
| President Nixon send me a letter in April of 1970 went across the pond on Sept.18,1970 and came home 18 months later, served all my time with B troop 7/17 Air Cav 1st Aviation Brig. at camp Holladay outside of Pleiku , the first three months turned wrench's on oh58a helicopters then went to the lift platoon as a crew chief on huey and flight line NCO. Had some good days and some bad days and will never go back to that sh*t hole again. |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 19 Mar 2019 at 12:34am
| I was talking to a pal of mine, never knew he was in nam. He and his son went back 2 years ago. He said everywhere the troops kicked Charlie's or NVA's butt, the commies had put up big monuments telling how they had kicked the USA's butt. He was ticked off at Nixon for pulling us out of there. The commies were beaten but Nixon pulled us out and left everything to the commies. |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 19 Mar 2019 at 7:34am
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Thanks to all who served, no matter where! Johnson, Nixon, neither one of 'em really knew how to fight that war, and what a disaster. But no fault of the guys like you guys who served. I'm too young to have served there. My Dad served in the Air Force right smack in the middle of Korea and Viet Nam, so he did not see combat by luck of his timing. But boy I know a few guys who have told me some stories. The most amazing one is this: When I was my oldest son's cub scout leader, we were using the VFW hall as our meeting place. The president of the local VFW was the father of one of my boys. (Yes, he was "quite old" to be a father of a kid that age) I arrived early to set up, and I could tell something was on his mind. What's up, I asked? "I don't know how to feel about today. 38 years ago today, as I woke up, and looked to the guy sitting left of me, and the guy sitting to the right of me, little did I know that only 1 of us would be around to talk about it now. I was at the base where the first shots of the Tet Offensive took place. Now, how I came to be there is a little unusual. I had served my tour and went home the summer before. I went back to work at GM in Flint. You kept your seniority going while you served. Within the first week I was back at work, the supervisor decided to give me some grief over NOT taking a break. Then hounded me the rest of the day about various BS. I told him, I did not see your name above the door when I walked in this morning. Looked like it said General Motors. Same as always. I was so mad at that idiot, I stopped at the recruiting office on the way home. I asked the guy what it would take to get back in. He looked up my records and said how I had only been out such a short time I could step right back into my rank and pay. And since I'd already served a tour in Nam, I could have my pick of stations. I told him I wanted to go back! Go back? Why?! You've done your combat, you can do anything. Because that's where my guys are, and that's where my guys need my help. So I went back. And stayed 4 MORE YEARS! You shoulda seen the look on my guys' faces when I rolled into base! Sarge, what are you doing here?!!! I don't sleep at night much even now. When it gets dark, I usually get up and look out the window....
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Posted By: DennisA (IL)
Date Posted: 19 Mar 2019 at 7:50am
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I thank all who served and are still serving. It takes very great people that put others before themselves. My greatest regret in life has been not being able to serve. ------------- Thanks & God Bless Dennis |
Posted By: ihc pickups
Date Posted: 19 Mar 2019 at 8:12am
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I was there from June 1966 till July 1967. Got shot on both legs caught a rack of a AK-47.spent 30 days in the hospital then back out. Blood type OD. religion Infantry with the First Air Cav. No desire to go back to that s*() hole. Thanks to all that served. ------------- Mike |
Posted By: Armand(AZ)
Date Posted: 19 Mar 2019 at 9:08am
| I enlisted in the AF in 1962 shortly after graduating from high school. I was 17, and volunteered to go to VietNam. (my dad had a fit but he still signed for me to enlist). Ended up in a Tac outfit in the Philippines and was deployed to northern Thailand in 1964 to set up a rescue base with helicopters to pick up pilots shot down that made it to Laos and Cambodia. That was the closes I made it to VietNam. But, when I got out of the AF in 1966, I joined Philco Ford in PA and went back to an Army base at Nha Trang where I spent nearly three years as a civilian. Got there the week before the start of TET in 1968 and came back to the US in April of 1970. Made a lot of money for the time, but have no desire to go back. I watched a lot of the news footage when Trump was there and it looks like a modern place now, but it was a cesspool when I was there!!! |
Posted By: john(MI)
Date Posted: 19 Mar 2019 at 4:33pm
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I'm just a Vietnam Era Vet, 72 - 75, USAF. Never went over but I did have three brothers over there at the same time. One Army, one Marine and one USAF. two have since passed and we attribute it to Agent Orange. The other, I don't think would want to go back, and neither would I. Not being there still makes it a nasty place to me. I can't believe all of the people going on vacation over there. Quite frankly, it sickens me! ------------- D14, D17, 5020, 612H, CASE 446 |
Posted By: TMiller/NC
Date Posted: 19 Mar 2019 at 7:46pm
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Kenny L, I was on Engineer Hill across the Air base from Holloway in '68. My buddy that I was stationed with thru 3 prior assignments was at Holloway. Kinda of an unusual story about that, we flew out to Ft Lewis together and the Air Lines lost his luggage so I shipped over before him. Didn't have clue where he wound up until letters could be sent and received from wife so took probably 3 weeks, I could see from where I was to where he was. Come to think of it will be 51 yrs. this Friday since we flew out of Hickory, NC on a cold and rainy evening. |
Posted By: Kenny L.
Date Posted: 19 Mar 2019 at 9:38pm
| T Miller, Yes I flew in the air force base quite often some day more time then I went to, also the air base by fire base 6 that the name slips my mind right now it was to the north of us love watching the spitfire taking off when I was on guard duty. |
Posted By: LB0442
Date Posted: 19 Mar 2019 at 10:30pm
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I got out of the Navy in 94. When I joined there were still quite a few Vietnam vets still serving. I enjoyed the duty I did. The one thing I think is great that has changed is the fact that people appreciate what the military does for this country. When I got out there weren't any veteran discounts (that I can remember), certainly no veteran hiring programs, very few military appreciation events. Now a lot of places offer vets discount, heck even jack in the box fast food gives a 10% discount, Lowes, Home Depot, a lot of local business's here. The list is huge now. Back when I got out, even when I was in if you told someone you were in the Navy most of the time the response was great when you get out you can get a good job (you know they were thinking REAL job) or something in the line of you seem smart why didn't you just go to school. It's hard to explain but it was almost as if other people thought of it as a last resort. I am very glad about the atmosphere around vets now. I go to the VA once a year for a checkup, it is clean, well staffed, easy to get an appointment, not crowded at all. They ask if there is anything I need. The DAV will pick me up if needed. Everyone should go to those sh$t hole countries I went to just to see just how good we have it here.
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Posted By: Hubert (Ga)engine7
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2019 at 10:57am
When I joined the Air Force I already had a degree, but I got a far better and more useful education in the service. All of these snowflakes out protesting how bad this country is should be sent to one of these sh$t hole countries for a year or two and then maybe they would appreciate how good they have it here. ------------- Just an old country boy saved by the grace of God. |
LB0442 wrote:Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2019 at 10:40pm
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AMEN ------------- "Allis-Express" 19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17 |