The Post office took a close hit and there was damage to 3 ambulances by sick bay and a bunch of trucks at the motor pool. The sound was very loud so at first we thought it was close but couldn't see it. We had no black out lights on our trucks so we would have been any easy target for anyone who decided that they were going to kill us! loading the LSTs and loading onto trucks. I took my time cooling myself off in that shower then went I thought they were trying to lighten their load. If I wanted something I had to have Bet or Ski pick it up. My AR 15 slept on my left side right next to my body so I could always feel where it was. History is not a fixed set of facts. He was standing about 10 feet from me and the first round of a rocket attack went through the ventilator on top of our building ,exactly four feet above the LTs head and exploded in the ware house bay next to our shop. The 53rd had five (5) CO's from 1942 through 1946. . Because of the rocket attack on May 13 (rockets hit with in 50 yard of this building) some of the officers there wanted escape doors out the back of the building where they were starting to build their own bunkers. Detachment Hue - 1965 - 1970. It was not exactly what you would call a state of the art mental hospital ! Before we destroyed their lives they all had jobs and skills that worked in their culture! We set the radio on squelch so it would make a lot of noise and wake us up. Here in Vietnam with the advanced gangrene she was going to die and there was nothing that could be done! Don't go to Dog Patch at night and stay way from the prostitutes. There was an indoor movie theater, snack bar, hobby shop, NCO club and EM club, basket ball courts and tennis courts. Her husband was an ARVN soldier who had been killed. On Friday I left the shop at 1800hr and went to the Children's Clinic. Wittig was 23 and on his second tour in Vietnam in 1968 when he met Cht, then 19, at Camp Tien Sha, part of Danang Air Base. They were simply ghettos with poor sanitation , communal water supply, no roads or electricity. When I got on the bus to Camp Tien Sha (the one with chicken wiure on the windows) I knew I wasn't in Kansas. Wittig, a seaman aboard the USS Pocono LCC 16 who . The year 1968 was the year of the Tet Offensive including Khe Sanh and Hue City. That was my first time seeing dead Marines. It was about the most insane thing I had ever experienced and was hard for my mind to grasp what had just happened. We took a left hand turn at the intersection and headed out the Tien Sha peninsula towards Monkey Mountain. The weekend after the amputation I went to build a small operating room and install a examination light. The main supply base for the Marines in I Corp was at Tien Sha near the coast in Da Nang. First came the steps and as soon as that was finished I helped the Navy doctor and Vietnamese nurse move in a big grey office desk and an open book shelf unit. After I let them go I was sitting on my tool box waiting for the crew truck to come pick me up. Tlchargez ds aujourd'hui la photo Camp Tien Sha. "Sorry that's all we have!" The building site was about 150 yards outside of the north perimeter and the perimeter had not been opened up yet. Naval Support Activity (NSA) Danang was officially established on 15 October 1965. Camp Tien Sha Vietnam 1968. nstar48. I can still hear the snip of the scissors as the Doc cut away the flesh. Well I never did hear from Barbee. After the little girl died I never went back to the clinic. Naval Support Activity (NSA) Danang was officially established on 15 October 1965. It was kind of like the work orders I got. Why are you here in Vietnam ? I dont know a damn thing so We assumed everyone around us had the same idealistic desire to strive to do our best all the time. I think it was on May 22,Wednesday when I was on the night radio,phone watch that I wrote my poem about this event. Then walk the length of pier re-installing any buffer pads that might have come out. Le logo iStock est une marque dpose de iStockphoto LP. 40 reviews. The pain they suffered was of our making and they just wanted us to go home! One night I stood a four hour office watch and another night I was on a four hour barracks fire watch. Recent photo of Cheryl and me. Camp Tien Sha Vietnam 1968. Left Phung a Vietnamese carpenter and formerly a French foreign legion Major. ALL work centers report in : AWC # 1 reports everything is quite ! is shown across the Han River from Da Nang itself. The solution that I found was just to build big rectangle frames (20 feet by 40 feet) sitting on top the ground . It is long gone. It was good for our working relation ship to do them favors so that I could count on them to perform for me when I really needed them. I got my NAUI Scuba diving cerification in July 1966. 3. 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. He expired nine days later. So as May 1968 ended I had been in Vietnam for 1 month! 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. Nobody bothered to help the new guy with the profoundly negative and dangerous war situation you found yourself in. So off to Camp Tien Sha to get my gear and check out. I yelled "incoming" and took off running to the nearest watch post which was 150 yards away. So what did I do for work uniforms ? Another thing that screwed up the night for us was our night radio, phone watch, it was a real bitch ! I had to pick up a box of those little "letter balls" for IMB Selectric typewriters from Camp Tien Sha and from there, "fight" my way all the way to China Beach. U.S. Seems like every time I was working there at least one or two little kids would go out of there dead! Then there were the incoming Rockets, we had three big generators and fuel tank and we were a bulls eye. the evening to wonder about and check out what Camp Tien Sha had to offer. I got a letter from Annette Burrell ( Johns younger sister) sometime in May. He did some stitching ,packed gauze into the stumps, put in shunts and temporarily closed the stumps. In these years, U.S. Army Vietnam alone retrograded over 671,000 short tons of supplies. I am sure had I not done that , the Chief, when he came down to the hootch, would have solved the problem by sending me back to China Beach. My Vietnamese had never even figured out what was happening and were still hunkered down by the lumber pile. I pretty much walked the whole base then back to the EM club for a cold beer I held that little girl until it started to get dark and I had no choice but to give her to the nurse and walk back to the base. My work hours were 0600 to 1800 which made it impossible to use any of the base services! Then I could triangulate my frames ,run some string lines, pound in the rebar stakes. Later I built a wash building and cook shack just about where these cots and the officers are standing. LCU-63 * MI The shop doors were always open and a light on in the shop. The tents were on the right. Map of the Vietnam War. Marine damage reports were never very accurate and it is hard for me to remember what was damage when. Soon we arrived at our destination, Camp Tien Sha Vietnam, an old French encampment that had been converted by the Sea Bees into our base camp. En savoir plus sur les images libres de droits ou consulter la FAQ sur les photos. Here is a poem that I wrote about the helicopter. What has stuck in my mind all these years is how much that bullet hole in the blond guys head looked like the bullet hole in the back of the head of a very large possum that I had shot in the back of the head when I was about 16 years old. Da Nang East. Drinking black coffee trying to stay alert. I had never been a boss and language was an obstacle so there was a lot of pencil drawings or just comparing construction with the closest hooch. The Post office was about 75 yards from my hootch. - LCU-63 * MIA * If they were caught they were punished by court marshal and were busted one pay grade. I have 'issues' from that crap hole as well.I don't want to put my email address in here publicly so how can I get in touch with you?Ernie Hodge, is this the Ernie hodge that was with the fuel crew in 1966-1967. my name is larry Kirby and my twin brother is gary Kirby if this is the same Earnie Hoge please email me at lwk472000@yahoo.vom. DS CS: Jan 1968: 6 Oct 1972: NSGDet - at 8th RRFS, PhuBai, Vietnam. At that time the base fir truck showed up. airlines circling the DaNang airbase over the Country of South Vietnam. There were two supply tents up there and when the Field Marines (grunts) would come in from the bush they would strip off all their dirty clothes and throw them in piles in one tent then go into the other tent and pick up clean uniforms. the fresh meat so what do I know about it. 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). ( so we could see to make a quick exit to the bunker during a rocket or mortar attack. I was a certified SCUBA diver. In your time in the CBs did you decide to be the opposite and do the right thing with newbies? Those care packages and her letters help keep me going when ever times got really tough! Naval Support Activity Danang or NSA Danang was a United States Navy logistics support organization located in Danang, South Vietnam active from October 1965 to April 1972. . Vietnam Shortimer Calendar, Da Nang area, 8/69 to 7/70, Ray Norton. RICHARD river ROBERT sailors School served Services ships SKSN SMITH Special staff Station Hospital submarine supply Support THOMAS units Vietnam . Here is the letter I wrote my parents on May 15, 1968. It seems incredible that a thirsty, decorated . She would pull out handfuls of her hair and pound herself with clenched fists! Da Nang Vietnam 1968 stock footage and images. . When I started working on this clinic project I was full of good feelings as to how we were helping these poor Vietnamese people. She wanted to send care packages and letters to me as part of a High School project. He told me step by step every detail. Some times she would get so drunk that she couldn't walk anymore, was really funny watch her four legs going in different directions! Everyone had his turf marked out and nobody was willing to give any for me. I would have to find some time to build a foot locker. Some of the women were in their early twenties, so there is still hope. I even passed an enlisted sailor with a can of white paint and he was It is very likely this was were the Marines were killed . ), and on the day, before I was to leave, I hitched a ride headed to Camp Tien Sha on the east side of Da Nang where I was to be processed out. One of them used to take me to the MACV Club located by the USS Repose. The events highlighted in yellow directly affected me. We had to give Puppy away as we were not even supposed to have a dog. One about half way from knee to foot and the other just below the knee! thought though was he was just putting on a show for us new guys. Any damage at FLC was my teams responsibility to asses , clean up and repair or replace so I had direct involvement in all rocket and mortar attacks at FLC. The new wood frame building that I did was behind the camera. The nurse in the center of the picture is the one who helped amputate the farmers legs. It was losing altitude and we were wondering if they would make it. Nice history lesson for me. . The Navy Doc cleared off the big desk and the MPs deposited the farmer onto the desk. We started pouring concrete Wednesday June 5, 1968. When I look back it sure seems stupid but at the time what else could I do? On Friday May 17 I was sent out on another job. As time passed and I saw all of these kids sick and broken I realized that most of what this clinic was doing was trying to repair the damage done to these kids by the war itself. Suddenly dozens of tracer rounds started ricocheting off the wall about 20 feet in front of the truck! Me, age 23, sitting on my bunk drinking a beer and smoking a cigarette. The Sargent in charge told him we would have to get gear from NSA Danang because the Seabee team was turned over to NSA. Da Nang is one of Vietnam's major ports, a city rich in history. That night at the mess hall it was, " did you hear about the 2 grunt that got shot and killed at the Skivvy house last night"! Had fun there, especially since I had to wear civilian clothes. This is the first Poem that I wrote in Vietnam and is about the two marines killed in the skivvy house. We went through the gate, down Main Street, took a left and stopped in front of a small building that looked like a hamburger stand. BU 3 Beerworth s crew took over and finished the walls and roof on Saturday May 18. It was closed in late 1969, the Admiral moved to China Beach and in 1970 I was an RM2 working at the Triangle Communications Center on the east side of the Han River (between Camp Tien-Sha and China Beach). It even included a week in Coronado, a week at Pendleton (weapons training), ands a week at Whidby Island (E&E, and SERE. Probable a pissed of old farmer getting off a couple round while drinking his morning coffee. Well whenever I was working in that area I would sneak in the tent and find some dirty uniforms,still in good shape and steal them, put them in my crew tool box and take them back to my hooch and hand wash them ! It was common for the Marines to sneak off base at night for a couple hours in the Village. One night I was called out for some lights on the west perimeter. My day was done!! The village it refers to was just north of Camp Books. The Marines slept 12 to 14 men in a hootch. The Priest took the kid around with him and often left him at the clinic with the nurses as the other children at the orphanage would pick on him. Activity Navymen NSA Da Nang NSA's NSAD Officer opened operations OPPOSITE period personnel Plans port providing Public Ramp Rear record repair reported responsible River sailors SCRF Security ship small craft Staff Supply Support Facility Task Third tion tons transferred troops turned turnover U. I guess that is why there were a lot of E-2 in the Marines. It was just after 1700 so I was good. and drop their bow ramps. In 1960s and 1970s history, China Beach in Da Nang is where thousands of American soldiers spent a few brief days of their leave in what must have seemed like paradise in the midst of the Vietnam War. T are sections in the book about Camp Tien Sha, Cua Viet, Dong Ha, Tan My, Hue, Phu Bai, Chu Lai, and Sa Huynh. Anyone who tried to open that door without giving our pass word would have been shot. Naval Communication Facility. African Americans perceived racial issues. The MPs left in a hurry. After a couple rocket and mortar attacks my brain never went completely to sleep. We got danger close rockets in that area often. Remember the talk we got about staying away from the prostitutes that I got my first day in Vietnam? On the left I hated that phone, radio, air conditioning and black coffee! The take-in was the same as you wrote. There was about a weeks over lap so the knew Chief could learn his job! It was a Saturday, perhaps we were finishing up the cook shed. The nurse laid across the farmers upper thighs to hold him in place. The second floor office was just being framed up . Indianapolis, IN 46203. I went to my CO and asked to help. The Doc first put surgical tourniquets on and took the belts off. The guy on the right had black hair, he had been shot with a small caliber pistol right where the skull meets the spine. It was no problem during the day because either the XO or Chief were there or the secretary,interpreter (miss Nguyen). very first day of war. Well I answered once about the FNGs. Camp Horn is a former United States Marine Corps and United States Army base located in Danang, Vietnam. Nang officers billeting ! It's the 4th largest city in Vietnam. What I really Because I had to fend for myself I did help the newbies who moved into my hooch. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! In my first week at Camp Books after we were finished building the office, shop we installed a short wave radio which was used for communication with the Navy. I had plenty of time to take it all in and it was very UN-nerving. You have destroyed my country and my family! right , Huan one of my carpenters. Camp Tien Sha Vietnam 1968 from Monkey Mountain. Vietnam veterans, age 60+, American. Although the rules were they had to go back and check out. She smelled horrible! He was really short, only six more days and a wake up and he would be out of Vietnam, back to the world and his girl friend Judy. The plane started to drop, going in steep and fast. Lance Corporal James D Feucht (cause of death,misadventure). Short EM3 Camp Tien Sha Fire Department. These positive relations were largely a reflection of the fact that black and white soldiers in combat were heavily dependent on one another. I also came down with a mild case of the flew so was feeling rather worn out. They cut a hole through their new fence and cleared a path threw the tangle foot and mines wide enough for a 4 wheel drive mule. I am not sure what possessed me to write poems there. What the F is wrong with her? Driving around on the perimeter of the base checking for burned out security lights could also be very hazardous . The kids were always hanging around and the best way to keep them from stealing was to befriend them by giving them candy. They had to be manned 24 hours a day. The engine suddenly stop and flames shot out the top of both side back door openings. 30 on it. The authorized stockage list for Vietnam was reduced from a high of 297,000 different items in July 1967 to 74,900 items in March 1971, without any loss of the high quality of support provided to the combat forces. The Doc trimmed all the skin and muscle nice and neat adding clamps (hemostats) as he went. The lumber and wood crates in upper right was the start of our lumber yard. Besides the concrete hospital was a large concrete and stone ward building which had not even been started in early June. and I was just finishing up the door. On the back of the truck was his dog Judy and inside on the dashboard was an M-16 rifle. 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. There were 6 area work centers in the Da Nang AO . I was face down on the road under the edge of the truck with my foot stuck under the clutch peddle. For African Americans soldiers serving in the armed forces during the Vietnam War the domestic scene loomed large. He had to re arrange his schedule to accommodate me. 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. Suddenly the helicopter went nose high and stopped going forward. It was where the French first landed in the 19th Century in their quest to control the area and where . When I came off my Saturday night watch I was told I would be standing six hours duty at the PWC trouble desk on Sunday morning. Then a voice came from inside the Quonset hut." Luxury. Ray Norton. I did a phone call to the Marine Duty officer and he calmly told me the incoming fire had already been reported by the outposts. 15 rounds hit us with 3 KIA and 15 wounded. In 1997 I drove my motor bike through the gate while the guard was taking a nap at lunch time and was able to get to the main office and talk to a doctor. Level the frames and tie them to the stakes and I would have my concrete forms complete. Pett George my ex UDT instructor allowed me to go through the class early being as how my older brother Jay and my Dad were going through the class too. Did he live or die? She is always with me ! That was the LTs first rocket attack and he didn't react fast enough. Danang, VN _ _ DS CS: 1964: Feb 1973: Detachment Bravo, FLTSUPDET, Navcomsta, PI. My body was always waiting to react. In November 1965 500 men moved into the old French Army camp, Camp Tien Sha at the foot of Monkey Mountain. The doctor and nurse came out of the clinic. As such a small group we couldn't do the standard Navy 4 hour watch. You will use the chain of command ,don't come to me. Started at Camp Carter then moved to the Hospital for a while then sent to Camp Ten Sha. 6 years ago. Camp Tien Sha, Da Nang Camp Tieu Khu, Binh Duong Province Camp John R. Tine, Kien Phong Province Torello . I went out and sat on my toolbox and thought about what I had just experienced. There was a Marine listening ambush set up outside the perimeter in that area. Spent many watches all over the city of Da Nang. APL-30 or barracks craft in docks at Da Nang Harbor. By July 1968 NSA Danang handled 350,000 tons of cargo each month for the 200,000 allied . I was at Camp Tien Sha from June '69 until Feb '70. I was given our 2 new carpenters to help with the concrete pour, 3rd class builder Calabresy and builder CN Craig Taylor. They were only a couple hundred yards away! On Monday morning Bet returned the snorkeling gear to Special Service and noticed that they had two sets of double 70 scuba tanks with Mark-2 regulators. . Go through their front gate then out their back gate to the causeway. Under the supervision of the Doc , the Vietnamese nurse and I got him tied down. I am searching for anyone who may recall serving with me in the Seabees at Camp Tien Sha, Da Nang between 1969-1971. The firemen loaded foam canister on a mule and were able to get to the UH-1 and finally put the fire out. This was a Sunday afternoon BBQ about 1800 hr. Coate would send dog food care packages to Judy. It took until 2000 hours to finish that first slab. 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. 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. There was a young mother with several kid and grandma and grandpa. : . Les nouveaux clients peuvent tlcharger cette image en profitant de notre offre dessai gratuit sans engagement. We weren't expecting any new men and we don't have the time to train you. The Doc started by cutting the legs off. He's shooting from a long way out and hasn't hit anyone yet. 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. The little girl was fusing and didn't want to leave the nurse so it took a little effort to hand her off to me . I asked where she was now and he said the Priest had taken her to Da Nang to be burried! Because I was just getting situated it was just mass confusion for me . I would have to wait a few more days for that to start. The next weekend I asked about the farmer ? I was shocked when he told me she was only 15 years old! Some time that day the Catholic Priest who was in charge of the clinic and also the Da Nang orphanage showed up . The number of rockets are probably plus or minus a couple rockets. 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