DMZ FIRE MISSION - DEC 1968
USMC 1967/1970
MOS 0811 (Artillery)
Viet Nam Service 1967/1969
(1 tour, plus two six months extensions; total time in country 1 year, 8 months, 9 days)
Assigned to the 5th 155 Self Propelled Gun Battery
Area of Operations: I CORPS, QUANG TRI PROVINCE
Fire Bases: Cam Lo, The Rock Pile, Vandergrift Combat base
The pictures are getting old and faded, and so are the memories...BOTH good and bad!
".....Artillery adds dignity to what would otherwise be a dull brawl....."
SEMPER FI....
Originally Posted by RED903L
USMC 1967/1970
MOS 0811 (Artillery)
Viet Nam Service 1967/1969
(1 tour, plus two six months extensions; total time in country 1 year, 8 months, 9 days)
Assigned to the 5th 155 Self Propelled Gun Battery
Area of Operations: I CORPS, QUANG TRI PROVINCE
Fire Bases: Cam Lo, The Rock Pile, Vandergrift Combat base
The pictures are getting old and faded, and so are the memories...BOTH good and bad!
SEMPER FI....
A MEN.
Army vet
basic at fort lenord wood, second 8 at fort gordon ga. learned to be radio teletype operator. spent the rest of my time in a place called kurzgarn germany, about 30 miles from frankfort germany. was lucky and missed vietnam war. awards= sharpshooter m1 rifle [shot 3rd in battalion and got 3day pass]
also got good conduct medal. mussered out may 1966 meet my wife 2 weeks later, were maried about year later, wouldnot change any of it.
Welcome home comrad!!!! Nothing like the good ole USAA MEN.
United States Army 1965-1968, in country 18 months.
Bill
USAF October 1970 - November 1991 - Worldwide duty both as enlisted and officer; retired as Captain; nuke officer
USAF 316/46150 1980-1984 Combined career field, missile maintenence and munitions systems specialist. Tech School: Lowry Aerospace Technical Center Denver, Co. First duty station: R.A.F. Lakenheath, U.K. TAC supported the F-111F equipped with "Pave Tack" same base that bombed Kadahfi in Operation Elderado Canyon in 1986 and other stuff. Also stationed at Barksdale A.F.B. Shreveport, La. SAC supported the B-52, SRAM and other stuff.
Missile badge
Expert Marksmanship ribbon: M-16 and 38 revolver.
Hey Impulse III.........you mean like this?
Attachment 12670
Attachment 12671
Attachment 12672
I've got pictures of tail numbers 128424, 128427, 131600, 131605, 131606, and 152687 if you ever flew in any of them.
Andy Anderson
SP 4 U S Army
Military Police
1969-1971
Fort Eustis, Va
Numerous Locations, West Germany
Did you persue the same profession in civilan life?
Bill
No, I'm an explosives engineer.
USAF 1965 - 1968
Stationed in Texas, Maine, and Udon Thailand from Oct 67 to Oct 68
Electrical Power Production and Catching air craft coming back from the North.
Proud to have served and proud of all of you. As so many have said Freedom isn't Free.
That sounds like a risky job tooWhat do you blow up anyway?
Bill
U.S. Army SEPT.65--FEB.68 D.A.S.A. Defence Atomic Support Agency
Military Police Heldover 5 months for convienance of Army due to service connected injuries
The AFRT TV network here in Europe has announcements for people to change their MOS to Explosive Ordnance. The tag line is ¨In EOD there is always room for advancement¨.
¨To be or to do? Which way will you go?" Col John Boyd
www.SPEED-KARTS.com
www.racing-engineering.com
SPANISHVETTES hope all has been well with you and yours! Snow piled all over the place here in my area; pretty much had my fill.
Bill
President Abraham Lincoln as stated in the Gettysburg Address
"From these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the
last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain."
"Defend Those That Defended Us"
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