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A few times when for no reason while sleeping, I see the orange glow growing bigger and bigger coming from what I thought was our POL dump at ChuLai going up in flames from a rocket attack during Tet...

He fought to the very end. RIP Major.

Semper Fi !

10% here, and no other insurance. Was hard to get anything after getting some hearing aids [too close to a bomb dump going up Tet] and the primary doc at my 1st CBOC was a joke, but when we got one...

Just remembered that I have a take off from a 1917, #194444, that I got from the CMP a number of years ago. Changed it out for a R marked stock that I got off a fellow back in the early 60's. Only...

Self Explanatory

Downstairs tonight rummaging around the gun room straightening up, when I happened to notice the writing on my scrap book cover for my time in the Corps. On the 28th of September, 1967 I landed in...

Did my 3 years with the Marines, wound up with 16 months at Mag 12 Comm at Chu Lai by the Sea fixing a lot of WW2 gear. Got out in January of '69, 42 years ago. Yup, the time flies real quick. Tet of...

I get pretty good service from the VMAC in Indianapolis, but the trick is getting the the doc at the clinic, where everything really gets started, to buzz Indy to get an appointment. On a trek now to...

Never was ordered to do anything illegal or immoral, it was all voluntary.

After ITR, almost a year of electronics school, then to Chu Lai. Spent one month on perimeter guard duty, one month working in the Americal Division PX warehouse [the Army thought as how the Marines...

Still have on my key ring, a John Wayne from the 1st ever C-Rat box at ITR I opened while at MCB Camp Pendleton, 1966.

It's 'purty damn "purty in it's own right.

Three R&R's in Bangkok, 'nuf sed!

Had a 1st Lt. come by my bunker on the North side of Chu Lai one night, actually his driver pulled up in front. Driver looked at me, smiled, pointed at someone coming around the back of the jeep....

You might just be a keeper after all.

Worked on a bunch of EE-8's down in Chu Lai, SB22's, SB86's, PRC6's, never taught how to work on them, had to rely on guys who had been there for a while to teach me the ropes as they quit...

When I was a kid, an uncle of my dad who was in that war participated in that truce, later go lost behind enemy lines for so long they sent his mother a death certificate. He took it down from his...

A jar of "zero beets" or "the keys to the jeep".

Does a guy taking a dump in an empty GI coffee can, putting it under the Hut Commanders [me] bunk while I was out to the pisser before hitting the rack count? This was in Nam, during the "warm" part...

Chu Lai by the Sea
Sept. '67 to Jan. '69
The first part was leading up to 'Nam, Tet of '68 was noisy.

Several years ago, I was at the battle field, and while going through the Visitors Center, I was looking over a mock up of the battle [had all those little lights on it] and got into a conversation...

Well, the story can best be started with me getting a copy of my SRB a few years ago, and the first thing I looked for was my rating. When I got to Chu Lai by the Sea in September of '67 my attitude...

Nothing as glorious as you described, EE8s', TA312s', SB22s', SB26s', and constantly replacing the plug in jacks for the switch boards. Add a month of guard duty, a month of "police duty" [had a crew...

Spent close to 16 months in down town Viet Nam at the big air base at Chu Lai in a Comm repair shop so you won't read anything worth a free cup of coffee from me. But about two years ago, I went to a...