camp tien sha danang, vietnam 1968

Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! Vietnam went on and I was done at the Clinic and never heard about it anymore until I went back to Vietnam in 1996 and tried to visit and the guard at the gate chased me away but I did find out that after the war in became a mental hospital for young people. What the hell is that? A sad day because we were no longer a Seabee Team ! I have spent countless hours over the past 15 years driving my motorbike around the Camp Books area looking for any of our workers. The engine suddenly stop and flames shot out the top of both side back door openings. She smelled horrible! Mostly I would just build and they would watch and fallow what I did. So over time it was easier to just not know anyone. If there were any trouble calls from the Marines (usually lights out on the perimeter or something not working at the mess hall) then it was jump in the truck drive out and check and drive over to our hooch and get who ever was needed to go fix the problem. I was going to have to hit the ground running if I intended to stay with this team. Barbee was very well liked by the labor crew. Detachment Nha Trang - 1965 - 1971. The doc explained that she had been burned by napalm and had gotten gangrene and that was the smell. Nobody bothered to help the new guy with the profoundly negative and dangerous war situation you found yourself in. Short EM3 Camp Tien Sha Fire Department. Le logo iStock est une marque dpose de iStockphoto LP. The next weekend I asked about the farmer ? I lay there waiting for the out posts to return fire, nothing happened! View from bow of LCM. It was a horrifying thing to watch. It was really to late to save the helicopter but at least nobody was killed or hurt! We set the radio on squelch so it would make a lot of noise and wake us up. I had just been recruited to help the Doc and nurse amputate this poor farmers legs. It took until 2000 hours to finish that first slab. by the time they got to us AWC# 5 we would be awake (hopefully) and report in. On May 15 I had finished 6 or 8 escape doors. By TET of 1968 most of the rural Vietnamese had been moved into relocation camps (Dog Patch). 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. He had to re arrange his schedule to accommodate me. So much for getting Sunday off. It was time to go look for some food! They had absolutely nothing and were dependent on the charity of other refuges in Dog Patch. The take-in was the same as you wrote. Keep exploring. It was in a large dirt field 150 yards outside of the north perimeter. (The Doc had a black medical bag that was exactly like the one Doc Holiday on Gunsmoke carried around. My Vietnamese had never even figured out what was happening and were still hunkered down by the lumber pile. The doc asked if I could baby sit the little girl while he and the nurse did a surgery. 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. Coate gave me two sets of shorts and short sleeve shirts. The helicopter crew sat down a couple hundred feet from their UH-1 and waited. The wounded are only those who were medivaced to a hospital. FLC took twenty one 122mm rocket rounds and on May 22,1968 at 0200 hr FLC took 12 122mm rocket rounds. [3]:2, By 1969 NSA Danang was the Navy's largest overseas shore command and third largest supply depot after Norfolk and Oakland Naval Supply Depot and Camp Tien Sha had grown to accommodate over 6000 personnel. Soon we came to the bridge across the Han River. Donald F. Hovanec was born on December 10, 1949. So my hooch would now have 5 of us. It is also one of the top international surfing destinations. 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. RICHARD river ROBERT sailors School served Services ships SKSN SMITH Special staff Station Hospital submarine supply Support THOMAS units Vietnam . Tlchargez ds aujourd'hui la photo Camp Tien Sha. 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) . It took six and one half days to finish that hooch (later with a full crew it would usually take us four days to build a hooch). Spent many watches all over the city of Da Nang. Why are you here in Vietnam ? Camp Tien Sha. Yes that's me smiling up from the 122mm rocket crater. (my home base). 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. Bet coming down the trail by the ESSO Plant east wall. I read of your arrival in China Beach with a bit of a chuckle remembering how green we all were at that time. The number of rockets are probably plus or minus a couple rockets. Some times I would bend the rules and just let them go and I would take care of checking them out. He had a little Vietnamese kid with him about 8 years old. We needed to replace the awning over the entry door that was about to fall off. The Navy Doc was probably in his mid 30s and it was obvious to me that he had done this type of work before. ( Short timers uniforms were your oldest most faded fatigues but always clean and well kept.) He told me step by step every detail. Da Nang East. Modern. I arrived in Da Nang in June 1968. She would be down on her hands and knees crying and waling. Right at daybreak back in '69, I was sent on a dangerous mission in Danang. 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. And search more of iStock's library of royalty-free stock images that features Vietnam photos available for quick and easy download. Da Nang Vietnam 1968 stock footage and images. I suppose that I needed that time alone to recover from the amputation! He spent the night at the shop bunker by himself , totally confused as to what was going on. Vietnam Memorial Monument Mobile Memorial Museum . Danang was handling more tonnage than the port of Baltimore at the time. Often several rockets would have gone off before I even knew we were under attack ! The carpenter flat bed truck. Wittig, a seaman aboard the USS Pocono LCC 16 who . 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 plane started to drop, going in steep and fast. Danang, VN _ _ DS CS: 1964: Feb 1973: Detachment Bravo, FLTSUPDET, Navcomsta, PI. Uss garrett county ( lst-786 ) uss garrett county ( lst-786 ) uss garrett (. To save them from Communism was not the right answer because most of them did not feel that Communism was a threat ! world in a land that nobody cared about , I was sitting in a Continental 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. African Americans perceived racial issues. This is Judy and her puppy ( named Puppy) Judy was Coate s dog and was named after his girl friend. 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 . Next thing I realize he has a hold on my sleeve. Well I had 11 months to go and it was going to be a very long 11 months ! 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). Some time that day the Catholic Priest who was in charge of the clinic and also the Da Nang orphanage showed up . The new wood frame building that I did was behind the camera. 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. 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 Well I never did hear from Barbee. Let me tell you that wasn't fun at all. They made runs north to Cua Viet at the mouth of the river (80 miles north of DaNang and 6 miles south of the Demilitarized Zone) and then upriver eight miles to Dong Ha to haul cannon ammunition to the marines. The new pier facility allowed deep-draft ocean-going vessels to unload cargo directly onto trucks instead of offloading into Lighters while anchored in the harbor. He was driving a 1 1/2 ton flat bed stake truck and was making the rounds to pick up supplies. The second floor office was just being framed up . When I found out about that I went with Bet to talk to that officer. 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. What the F is wrong with her? The Marines in that ambush had fired on me to scare me because they thought I was the duty officer making the rounds. The road was closed to civilian traffic at night so there would be no other vehicles on the road. The saw he used was a miniature version of the bone saw we used when we cut up cows or pigs at butchering time on the farm! Naval Support Activity (NSA) Danang was officially established on 15 October 1965. APL-30 or barracks craft in docks at Da Nang Harbor. If it had detonated when it hit the ventilator we both would have been killed! Well I don't know how much of an impression that left on me but these guys getting killed in the Skivvy house got my attention ! 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. Then he could pick my guys up and pick up materials to build my hooch. 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). Another thing that screwed up the night for us was our night radio, phone watch, it was a real bitch ! While my guys were working I was talking to the Gunny in the hut. There was about a weeks over lap so the knew Chief could learn his job! All terrain forklifts would scurry back and forth off When that needle went in that poor farmer screamed and jerked up headed for the ceiling! Coate introduced me to a Chief Boatswain Mate who was our executive officer.The Commanding officer wasn't there( a lieutenant Junior Grade.) The main supply base for the Marines in I Corp was at Tien Sha near the coast in Da Nang. I got my NAUI Scuba diving cerification in July 1966. It became the headquarters for all U.S. Very close now and it was clear that they weren't going to make it over the hurricane fence at the perimeter. Back at the hootch the Seabees got in a major debate about where to put me. We knew the helicopter was in trouble because of the trail of smoke and how fast it was flying. 6 years ago. "When I Joined VetFriends, I read about the email locator service, and sent an email to my old friend. We weren't expecting any new men and we don't have the time to train you. After the little girl died I never went back to the clinic. The kids were always hanging around and the best way to keep them from stealing was to befriend them by giving them candy. 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. 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. You FNGs get to the back of the T are sections in the book about Camp Tien Sha, Cua Viet, Dong Ha, Tan My, Hue, Phu Bai, Chu Lai, and Sa Huynh. Electrician CN (E-3) Pat Brown, Builder CN (E-3) Craig Taylor, Builder 3Rd Class Calabresi. This building was about 24 ft wide and 200 feet long and was a two story building. 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