Maps of Heavily Sprayed Areas and Dioxin Hot Spots 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. Pretty big load for Yes that's me smiling up from the 122mm rocket crater. Coate was not there to know about Puppy. Relations outside of combat were typified by racial tension and violence. Da Nang is known as the tourist capital of South-Central Vietnam, with a west coast location that makes for beautiful sunsets against an impressive backdrop of lush mountains. YFUs and LCUs such as the 62 were assigned to Lighterage Div of the Naval Support Activity, DaNang, and were based at Camp Tien Sha Annex. This was a real live human! That was the LTs first rocket attack and he didn't react fast enough. side of the handling, I'd say it had severe understeer entering a I wondered how I would feel if someone burned down my home ,killed my dad and took my little brother away to a hospital. (my home base). One of our guy went with Babyson to the local market and bought blankets, cooking supplies, sleeping mats and food. From March to July 1965, III Marine Amphibious Force (III MAF) troops delivered supplies to the units in the field while the Seventh Fleet ran port operations. There were so many sound at night and for my own safety I had to learn them all. 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! Well I had 2 sets that were issued to me when I went threw weapons training at Coronado and Camp Pendleton. readers. right out of there. The carpenter flat bed truck. Vietnam, Museum, Photos, Hanoi Hilton - 351days-in-da-nang 1966 and assumed I would spend two years on a submarine in WesPac. maps) office in the White Elephant. - Alan, Drawing 351 Days in Da Nang by Ray Norton - Vietnam Veterans of America I could feel the rasping of that bone saw through the stick in the farmers mouth! Closer and closer, the engine starting to whine! I was finished with my concrete forms before noon on Wednesday . 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. Detachment Chu Lai - 1964 - 1971. Everyone was busy as hell and I didn't have any idea as to what was going on. two parts, right and left, I have to It was very clear that they did not want a FNG getting in their way. There was a young mother with several kid and grandma and grandpa. whatever you say Mr. Some The port of Danang contained only three small piers, three Landing Ship, Tank (LST) ramps and a stone quay that were inaccessible to oceangoing vessels; even smaller craft had trouble approaching. really an enclosure. those Nastie's were fun boats! They were pissed off at him because they were sent out there that night when they had already done a day patrol, and they wanted to scare the crap out of him. Sleeping in that bunker was not good.It had 2 opening which allowed the mosquitoes to get in and eat the shit out of me. 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. Quite the contrary, African Americans frequently complained that they were disproportionately assigned menial duties, not promoted to the level they deserved, unfairly targeted for punishment, disproportionately drafted, assigned to combat units, and killed in Vietnam. Both of his legs had been pretty much blown off. DaNang Harbor. I am very grateful to Annette for the support she gave me while I was in Vietnam. Soon there were Marines all over the place. Military Wiki is a FANDOM Lifestyle Community. I took my time cooling myself off in that shower then went When the Doc was finished he told me I could remove the stick. Our group that was sent to MST1 landed in After the little girl died I never went back to the clinic. My station when What was done was done! ever getting my hair cut at Camp I served until 1970. We looked a lot more hard corps than we were. and created an overlay of the changes to the harbor, which was In DaNang we had what was called the "duty jeep". As good as we were trying to do for the Vietnamese we sure as hell were not winning their hearts and minds! couldn't resist testing it's limits! I even passed an enlisted sailor with a can of white paint and he was such a small vehicle. and went on Chapel? We were supposed to protect our base generators and fuel tank from sappers. Then when I went back to the shop that night I would have Bettencourt cut me a bunch of rebar stakes 2 ft long. I am a 20 year old US soldier and my country says I have to be here! After that LT Branch never stayed late at the office, he would leave at 1700 to take Miss Nguyen home to Da Nang. 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"! The One Square Mile of Vietnam: Da Nang - BBC News 1968 SPECIAL REPORT: "CAMP TIEN SHA RACIAL TROUBLE" Hezakya Newz & Films 165K subscribers Subscribe 300 9.9K views 1 year ago For African Americans soldiers serving in the armed forces during the. Then of course there was the dreaded incoming 122mm and 140mm incoming rocket. configuration it would hold about 10 people. as soon as they were installed. 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. When we arrived at Red Beach the Seabee team shop was a mad house. to LCU-1498 (same routine). What we finally did was a one man 12 hour watch. You'll see scenes filmed along the roads between Da Nang and Camp Tien Sha -- driving through villages and countryside, past ships in the harbor . one of authority noticed. It was an opportunity to get off the Hospital ships and see a little bit of the real Vietnam. building. I sure didn't void The cot had a broken leg so I had to prop it up with a sand bag and it was missing one end piece so it just wanted to fold up on me when I laid on it. shower heads came out from the side 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. I lay there waiting for the out posts to return fire, nothing happened! Naval Support Activities in the I Corps, the northern-most theatre of war in South Vietnam. Coate gave me two sets of shorts and short sleeve shirts. [2] During the next several years, the command created subordinate NSA detachments at Chu Lai, Hu, Tn M, ng H, Ca Vit, Ph Bi and Sa Hunh. The two guys shot in the skivvy house that night were, Pvt. Sandoval. Use tab to navigate through the menu items. Did you serve in CAMP TIENSHA, DANANG,VIETNAM? - VetFriends I started building my hooch on Wednesday May 8th at just before noon. ptfnasty.com and the DaNang section, The shop door are between the 2 telephone poles. K-9 Security Unit-1 (Navy Sentry Dog Unit) Det Cua Viet 1st Naval LARC Division. He did some stitching ,packed gauze into the stumps, put in shunts and temporarily closed the stumps. aspects of it are certainly more memorable than the bad parts. It was what those That is the only time I had to get clothing issue. May 1. Coate introduced me to a Chief Boatswain Mate who was our executive officer.The Commanding officer wasn't there( a lieutenant Junior Grade.) The VC had taken their 782 gear (combat gear, weapons and ammo) and bugged out. I experienced rocket attacks, an ammunition dump explosion, total boredom, drug busts, police raids, China Beach, and the birth of my daughter, Rebecca. I asked if the prostitutes had been shot ,he didn't know but thought they were probably the ones who came to the gate and reported the incident! I was one of the unlucky ones who ended up shoveling a lot of shit! So what did I do for work uniforms ? Cat Lo Naval Base. They had been covered with poncho liners but they had blown off. When I look back it sure seems stupid but at the time what else could I do? It was kind of like the work orders I got. Training Soldiers To Survive Is The Goal Of Navy SERE School I started building the 3 strong backs at 7 Motors on Monday morning June 3rd. Fish and Game, as a diver/biologist, and retired as the Historian, US Navy Seabee Museum. Those care packages and her letters help keep me going when ever times got really tough! My big problem was how to build those damn concrete forms without using wood stakes. The beach is more than twenty miles long, and in the last two decades, numerous China Beach hotels as well as dining and shopping venues have sprung up along it. time does that. We went downtown in Long Beach, and we got harassed a lot. I had my broken leg cot and was living out of my sea bag. Total Area Sprayed (sq. The doctors at the Hoa Kahn Clinic were all Navy I think mostly off the hospital ships, they would volunteer for the clinic and rotate out every week. vehicle I took full advantage of it! 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. As such a small group we couldn't do the standard Navy 4 hour watch. After showing him my NAUI Scuba certification card I was able to make arrangement to keep all the Scuba gear at our shop so I could use it any time that I wanted. The green building upper right is the hooch that I built for our Vietnamese workers. The photos on this page are from an exhibit that was at the Collin County Historical Society Museum. camp tien sha danang, vietnam 1968 In 1968, I was about to be drafted into the Army and did not want to go to Viet Nam. quarters. Over time that changed, I didn't want to know any newbies! for references to information received from I needed to know which of the sound meant danger! The day we put up our sign . My first assignment was YFU-54, then Ok, I MST1 and thought it would be a good time to go back and see In November 1965 500 men moved into the old French Army camp, Camp Tien Sha (Tin Sa) at the foot of Monkey Mountain. Anyone who tried to open that door without giving our pass word would have been shot. They were only a couple hundred yards away! Barracks damage in Danang, Vietnam - 1967 | The first half o | Flickr I took all the materials that I thought I would need to build the cement forms for my strong backs. Vietnam veterans, age 60+, American. maintenance, and generally taking They were all in alignment with our generators. and the LT moved to the Da. In addition, the Navy took charge of the offloading, storage and delivery of supplies common to all the allied forces in I Corps. I went to the "motor pool" at least Every morning I was stripping floors and then in the afternoon waxing and buffing and cleaning the showers, normal Navy grunt work. Late in the day we had built them a nice hootch and had them moved in. 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). There was about a weeks over lap so the knew Chief could learn his job! At the base of Monkey mountain was Camp Tien Sha, the main Navy base. hair cutting all my time there aside There was a bunker there. At that time the base fir truck showed up. Yes, we would help them build new huts and we would patch up their children and pay compensation for the damages done. Suprise, suprise, I stretched it to it's things. half, aside from the times that I The U.S. Navy established the MST-1 detachment to train Vietnamese crews and maintain PTFs in February 1964. technical and supply stuff. map and make modifications, please email your When he was all loaded he told them one of the other drivers had the paper work and while they were trying to hunt down the papers he just drove away. Camp Tien Sha Vietnam 1968 from Monkey Mountain Bombardier Pretorian Aug 16, 2013 Good photo, get a good look at the base.
