Detachment Phu Bai - 1965 -1970. May 1. This book is the capstone volume of the entire series in that 1968, as the title indicates, was the defining year of the war. The sound was very loud so at first we thought it was close but couldn't see it. The wounded man was the Mess Sargent who was the only one at the mess hall at the time. Great link for in-country Vietnam vets, or those curious about the Vietnam War. T is a history of NSA in Vietnam, which by 1969 was the Navy's largest overseas command with the largest public works department in the world. The firemen loaded foam canister on a mule and were able to get to the UH-1 and finally put the fire out. Some part of it was always listening to what was going on . Remember the talk we got about staying away from the prostitutes that I got my first day in Vietnam? Barrels of asphalt damaged by rocket attack, April 1969 . Coate introduced me to a Chief Boatswain Mate who was our executive officer.The Commanding officer wasn't there( a lieutenant Junior Grade.) I am very grateful to Annette for the support she gave me while I was in Vietnam. At first it was because every thing was so knew and exciting. I was face down on the road under the edge of the truck with my foot stuck under the clutch peddle. I didn't understand at that time the danger of rocket attacks. It was Apart from some shopping highlights and historical sights, the main reason for most travelers staying here is its proximity to the well-known My Khe Beach, Lang Co Beach, Hoi An and My Son. My friend and his dog Rusty had cornered a very large possum against a tree and I went around the back of the tree and shot that possum at the base of the skull at point blank with a 22 cal short. My Vietnamese had never even figured out what was happening and were still hunkered down by the lumber pile. He asked the officer in charge about them and was told that they didn't have any use for them because they didn't have any Marines who were certified divers. 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. Made a very good impression on me, I didn't even consider it my whole time in Vietnam ! The Doc first put surgical tourniquets on and took the belts off. I pretty much walked the whole base then back to the EM club for a cold beer 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. In July 1966 the "Bridge Cargo Ramp" (160307N 1081352E / 16.052N 108.231E / 16.052; 108.231) began operations increasing NSA's supply capability. Hard bound with blue cover and full color replica of the U.S. It was losing altitude and we were wondering if they would make it. "Ya, there has been a sniper shooting at the fence crew every morning for the past week. 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. Then after thinking about it I realized how wrong I was. Danang was handling more tonnage than the port of Baltimore at the time. Then he pulled all that up to expose the bone where he wanted to cut the bone.The nurse held all the skin and muscle up while the Doc cut off the bones. Was I scared ? When I found out about that I went with Bet to talk to that officer. 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. After the bones were cut the Doc tied off all the bleeders and removed the hemostats . Les nouveaux clients peuvent tlcharger cette image en profitant de notre offre dessai gratuit sans engagement. ( We called the Army Republic Of Vietnam police white mice because they were small, wore white helmets white web belts, white pistol holsters and white spats.) Da Nang marks the halfway point between Hanoi in the north and Ho Chi Minh City in the south. Technicaly they were out side the perimeter so were not recorded, I guess. Donald F. Hovanec was born on December 10, 1949. If there was any heavy weather and to many buffer pads were jumping out I would have to go back to the hooch and roust out a work crew. If one of the other bases in our AO got hit by mortars or rockets then our siren went off and we were on red alert which meant we had to role out with weapons, helmets,and flack jackets and man our posts. Camp Tien Sha. We took a left hand turn at the intersection and headed out the Tien Sha peninsula towards Monkey Mountain. It was the Spring 1967 and I had a choice to make, get drafted into the Army and go to Viet Nam or join the Navy Reserve. Book description. Thursday morning we stripped the forms and started building the framing of the first building. Did he live or die? I was a certified SCUBA diver. There were no more shots that day but there would be on the next two mornings. The hooch in back is the doctors office and residents. Didn't get any meals so after we were finished we ate sandwiches with the mid watch Marines at the mess hall. I don't remember when I stopped doing work at the Children's clinic, Maybe the end of June or early July. That was my first time seeing dead Marines. It even included a week in Coronado, a week at Pendleton (weapons training), ands a week at Whidby Island (E&E, and SERE. I was standing in front of the hut assessing the job. I lay there waiting for the out posts to return fire, nothing happened! and drop their bow ramps. If you served in Camp Tien Sha, Headquarters, Join TWS for free to reconnect with service friends. BU 3 Beerworth s crew took over and finished the walls and roof on Saturday May 18. Back at the hootch the Seabees got in a major debate about where to put me. She was wearing light blue pajamas with little lambs printed on it. The fire was caused by a Air or artillery white phosphorus flare ( WP). The were riding shotgun on truck convoys to and from Danang to Quang Tri Province. This is the first Poem that I wrote in Vietnam and is about the two marines killed in the skivvy house. iwas in the 1097th med boat co. dongtam,vietnam 1968 towed 3rd 34th artery barges up down the canels moble riverine force 9th inf divion, caption wild was incharge 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. 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 . My head carpenter ,Pham Ba told me about her during the week. RICHARD river ROBERT sailors School served Services ships SKSN SMITH Special staff Station Hospital submarine supply Support THOMAS units Vietnam . When we arrived at Red Beach the Seabee team shop was a mad house. Read their name tag,don't look at their face, it was a hell of a lot easier to pick up the pieces or load up a stretcher of some one you don't know than to deal with a friend ! It was a Saturday, perhaps we were finishing up the cook shed. Re: Vietnam Nam vet wants to see war sites. I got my NAUI Scuba diving cerification in July 1966. The Docs loved coming to Hoa Kahn Clinic. Camp Tien Sha Vietnam 1968. nstar48. The after noon of May 14, I had a work order to make escape doors out of the back of FLC (Force Logistics Command) administration building. We stopped work and watched. uniform. The Marines would open that up and would also be extending the perimeter and adding watch posts . Go to vintagefilmarsenal.com to purchase a full-length 31min DVD of "Tien Sha and Da Nang 1969" -- home movies filmed at Camp Tien Sha and DaNang, including . ALL work centers report in : AWC # 1 reports everything is quite ! The events highlighted in yellow directly affected me. After a short rest to pull my self together I went back and finished putting the door spring on and about that time one of my team mates picked me up and took me back to the shop. . One rocket struck this barracks, but the man in this room survived by . It turned 90 degrees to the right and touched down between two rows of concertina wire in the middle of the perimeter. The What we finally did was a one man 12 hour watch. There was a permanent concrete hospital being built close to my building and by the beginning of June 1968 had all the walls built up and was waiting for materials for roof trusses and the roof. The Seabee construction crews he is referring to was my crew. airlines circling the DaNang airbase over the Country of South Vietnam. He got in line and they loaded his truck with beds, lots of beds. 1968 - Harold Goldman's Cobra Gunship Hue 1970, submitted by Roger Carver Hue 1970, submitted by Roger Carver . It took until 2000 hours to finish that first slab. You are a builder so Beerworth or Yost will be who you report too." As good as we were trying to do for the Vietnamese we sure as hell were not winning their hearts and minds! 40 reviews. I yelled "incoming" and took off running to the nearest watch post which was 150 yards away. and to listen to music. Les nouveaux clients peuvent tlcharger cette image en profitant de notre offre dessai gratuit sans engagement. These places had many different names, abbreviations, acronyms, terms, and phrases.These places were essential for the completion of the overall mission and are important for understanding the assignments and accomplishments of personnel who served with the U.S. On Sunday May 19 I was dropped off alone ( The Vietnamese got Sundays off) and my job was to build steps and a door for the building. Yes, everyone called him soccer ball head ! This is a 122mm rocket crater in the road in front of our shop. View from bow of LCM. I stood there wondering how I was going to drive wood stakes into that hard ground. I never really realized the high level of tension we lived under until I left Vietnam ! Ray Norton. All terrain forklifts would scurry back and forth off 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. Liked the Oriental rock bands came to the Club: Christopher, Eric: RD3: Mar 1970 - May 1971: Naval Support Activity Danang: YFU 73 - a flat bottomed Skilak. Off we went to the supply yard at one of the SeaBee battalions, while we were there we stopped for a quick lunch at the Navy mess hall. Keep exploring. The Doc started by cutting the legs off. The nurse in the center of the picture is the one who helped amputate the farmers legs. It became the headquarters for all U.S. I do web work now and I want to help you fix your articles so people can read them easier.I'm not asking to get paid I just want to do something for you. 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. One night I was in the office with LT Branch . Boy life was improving a lot. We were here, Bombardier. (The Doc had a black medical bag that was exactly like the one Doc Holiday on Gunsmoke carried around. Then I started paying more attention. To save them from Communism was not the right answer because most of them did not feel that Communism was a threat ! It was a real learning experience for the three of us. There were other things to screw up the nights. Both of his legs had been pretty much blown off. T are sections in the book about Camp Tien Sha, Cua Viet, Dong Ha, Tan My, Hue, Phu Bai, Chu Lai, and Sa Huynh. 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. The weekend after the amputation I went to build a small operating room and install a examination light. Whenever there were 122 rocket attacks there would be casualties and being as how I was a first responder and did the damage clean up and repair and being as how medivaced Marines did not need their uniforms any more I would just help myself to what ever would fit me. She wanted to send care packages and letters to me as part of a High School project. I was in country from June 1969 to June 1970. 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. 5440 x 3520 px (46,06 x 29,80 cm) - 300 dpi - RVB, Les licences libres de droits vous permettent de ne payer quune fois pour utiliser des images et des vidos protges par un droit dauteur dans des projets personnels ou commerciaux de manire continue, sans paiement supplmentaire chaque nouvelle utilisation desdits contenus. Pilot, youre the one flying the plane. Uss garrett county ( lst-786 ) uss garrett county ( lst-786 ) uss garrett (. Indianapolis, IN 46203. 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. Gave me the creeps then and still does now when I think about it! 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. [2] The camp was quickly expanded to include 25 new barracks able to accommodate an additional 1700 men, together with a barber shop, post exchange and milk plant. What has escaped my memory was the "21 club". The doctor and nurse came out of the clinic. Soon there were Marines all over the place. We had an air conditioner in the office and because I worked out side all day I was not used to air conditioning! When I look back it sure seems stupid but at the time what else could I do? on 6 Oct 1972 . There were 6 area work centers in the Da Nang AO . 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. The Chief did manage to get bedding (Ha,Ha) I got one bed sheet and one pillow case. Get those Fucking Gooks away from that Damn trailer". Military Wiki is a FANDOM Lifestyle Community. I couldn't grasp what was going on at the time. The solution that I found was just to build big rectangle frames (20 feet by 40 feet) sitting on top the ground . The Marine on the left was blond and looked like a California surfer.He to had been shot in the back of the head. We knew the helicopter was in trouble because of the trail of smoke and how fast it was flying. Every tree trunk was painted white, every rock was neatly lined up along the The Brief. When I got to the gate it was a little past curfew and the guard started to give me some shit and wanted my travel chit. 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. 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 . APL-30 or barracks craft in docks at Da Nang Harbor. Why are you here in Vietnam ? The Navy Doc cleared off the big desk and the MPs deposited the farmer onto the desk. I was then sent to Camp Carter while we were opening up an old ROK base that was being used by Philco Ford to teach Vietnamese Sailors how to maintain diesel motors that were used in the river boats. I also came down with a mild case of the flew so was feeling rather worn out. We set the radio on squelch so it would make a lot of noise and wake us up. The huge fuel tank was just being build on the left out of the picture. Here is the battalion report for May 1968. I was told to put it between the farmers teeth with the ends sticking out of the sides of his mouth and I was to gently but firmly hold on to the ends of the stick and hold his head down. This is our new Chief Builder. She is always with me ! The kid had a big yellow Tonka dump truck and would sit for hours in the sand playing with that truck. I was in Danang less than a month when the Vietcong used rockets to attack the Danang Air Base for the first time in the war, on the morning of February 27. pilot said that was to avoid being shot at by the VC. just out of the picture on the right. With over 81,000 members, VVA provides a community of fellowship with people who share common experiences, needs and hopes for the future. After he was medivaced one young labor worker(Baby son) would ask me every morning If I had heard how Barbee was and if I got a letter from him. Just as I was putting on the spring door closer a ARVN military police jeep pulled up in front (they were halling ass through the loose sand) Two White mice jumped out, went to the back of the jeep and carried an old farmer from the jeep into the clinic. There was the real possibility of hitting a mine or being ambushed by the VC (it happened more often then I would like to think about) . Vietnam veterans, age 60+, American. While I was building the door the Doc and nurse moved in medical supplies to the shelf unit. 2021/09/07 Cpl. 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. The feet just kind of hanging by muscle and skin. I can still hear the snip of the scissors as the Doc cut away the flesh. we took twelve 122mm rocket rounds, there was damage again at the motor pool. the headquarters of NSA Danang was moved from downtown Danang to Camp Tien Sha. Here they surfed, sunbathed, and tried to forget the war they would soon return to. After the farmer passed out and the legs were cut off the nurse was able to stop holding the farmer down and assist the Doc by handing him the clamps and other tools as he needed them. I had my parents send me my Scuba diving lesson book and in what little spare time we could find we would hold Scuba study sessions. This is the Hoa Kahn clinic at the time I started working there. That is the only time I had to get clothing issue. I faked being a doctor from the USA and was shown around a little. Mostly I was just kind of mentally numb. Craig Taylor was pulled from the job to go work another project.He had also gotten cement poisoning in a cut on his foot so would not be able to help on any more concrete work. That's how we got our beds, enough for everyone. March 29, 1969. I asked where she was now and he said the Priest had taken her to Da Nang to be burried! Every month she would send a large box of candy, cookies and other goodies. My body was always waiting to react. On Tuesday May 14 I finished my hooch and settled into the corner right inside the door. We hopped in his truck and he took me down to H&S company supply to get bedding and mess gear. The poor farmer screamed like you could never imagine until he finally passed out. The former Marine HQ (III MAF) which was located not too far away is now used by the Vietnamese army (it was built by the French) and is a no . Beddoe. Between 1969 and 1971 hundreds, if not thousands, of incidents of racial violence occurred in and around American military bases H e had white hair and a white beard and very much looked like Santa Clause. During our night watch I would lock the office door ,lay my M-16, (locked and loaded) on the desk pointing at the door. I had my broken leg cot and was living out of my sea bag. One night I stood a four hour office watch and another night I was on a four hour barracks fire watch. Pham Ba went around back to take a pee. paths and painted white and there were white picket fences around almost every Her husband was an ARVN soldier who had been killed. We aren't sure where he is yet and haven't got permission to go after him! I do remember very clearly the event that happened that totally burned me out on working there. At that time the base fir truck showed up. There are other memories of my time working at the clinic. The take-in was the same as you wrote. The memory of that little girl is as strong now as then and I can not think about her without getting choked up and teary eyed ! There was one thing that bothered me about Tien Sha. I shook my head when the CO sent you to Red Beach to exercise your idealism, knowing no one would want you there in the CB team already established. A love affair. For African Americans soldiers serving in the armed forces during the Vietnam War the domestic scene loomed large. I was 19 years old when I got my orders to go to Vietnam. 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. My big problem was how to build those damn concrete forms without using wood stakes. S . 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. The main supply base for the Marines in I Corp was at Tien Sha near the coast in Da Nang. I started building my hooch on Wednesday May 8th at just before noon. I jumped into the fighting hole beside the post and yelled at the Marines there "holy shit some one is shooting at me!" Drive out the back gate and about 2 miles to the Navy Seabee base. The truck dropped us at the work sight. You FNGs The Navy Doc was probably in his mid 30s and it was obvious to me that he had done this type of work before. This was a real live human! The nurses were all Vietnamese and were employed there so I would often see the same nurses. Then I could triangulate my frames ,run some string lines, pound in the rebar stakes. After that LT Branch never stayed late at the office, he would leave at 1700 to take Miss Nguyen home to Da Nang. That was the LTs first rocket attack and he didn't react fast enough. 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 Doc took a big syringe and needle and shot both legs up with anesthesia. He spent the night at the shop bunker by himself , totally confused as to what was going on. Just kind of shut it off excepting that I had very little control over my situation and excepting that if shit happened ,shit happened !! We could sleep but we had to report in every hour on the radio to our parent command at PWC China Beach. Very close now and it was clear that they weren't going to make it over the hurricane fence at the perimeter. I needed to know which of the sound meant danger! As such a small group we couldn't do the standard Navy 4 hour watch. We took several trucks and picked up Pham Ba and Babyson outside the gate and headed down the road. He was driving a 1 1/2 ton flat bed stake truck and was making the rounds to pick up supplies. I was finished with my concrete forms before noon on Wednesday . Despite these positive interactions with whites, African Americans did not view the armed forces as an institution free of racial prejudice. Closer and closer, the engine starting to whine! Vietnam Memorial Monument Mobile Memorial Museum . I thought the clinic was for children. 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 . "Honcho come", he pulls me around the Quonset hut, his eyes were as big as saucers! She would throw dirt into the air and scratch at her face until it was bleeding , rubbing dirt into the cuts. When I asked the Priest what happened to the kid he said he didn't know, the kid was at the orphanage when he took over. In mid-October 1968 the Deep Water Pier complex (16.12N 108.214E) on the Tien Sha peninsula was completed, beginning operations in September 1968. Beerworth dropped us at 1st MPs. Style attributes. We were told that we were teaching them skills so they would be able to have a useful job. I slowly walked around the trailer checking them out. Next thing I realize he has a hold on my sleeve. 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