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"TET"....

pwilliepwillie Member Posts: 20,253 ✭✭✭
edited January 2017 in General Discussion
....anybody remember?....tomorrow 49 years ago...[xx(]
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  • bpostbpost Member Posts: 32,669 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yes I do, I was very young but remember my mother crying because her brothers were there and she was worried sick about them.
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  • perry shooterperry shooter Member Posts: 17,105 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I had been back from active service for 2 years but a Dark day & time for all military both in Vietnam and in this country where there was lack of support by many civilians[V][:(!][:(][xx(]
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  • nordnord Member Posts: 6,106 ✭
    edited November -1
    I remember.

    Just over two decades before we prevailed at the Battle of the Bulge. My father was there and "interacted" with German forces. He was lucky in that the war was far more personal to his north. For him and his artillery unit it was more of a cat and mouse game for a few days. The mouse eventually became the cat.

    Tet he never understood. Here we had everything going for us yet we seemed bent on fighting with one hand tied behind our backs. For myself I thanked the heavens above that I wasn't unlucky enough to be thrown into combat or even into the military for that matter. I had volunteered, but was rejected due to a minor heart murmur. It may well have saved my life. One of my classmates gave his life in Vietnam and I've always wondered for what?
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  • Smoky14Smoky14 Member Posts: 531 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by pwillie
    ....anybody remember?....tomorrow 49 years ago...[xx(]

    Like it was last week, lost 22 guys from our outfit in one day. My poor mother had both her boys in the zone at the time and didn't sleep well.
    Wish I could forget.

    Smoky
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  • pwilliepwillie Member Posts: 20,253 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    4:00 am....I heard the first rockets slamming into BOQ2...Climbed on top of the roof and saw some black clad people with bamboo launchers taking aim on the building......scared slimeless...woe, what a day...we lost many MP's that day....walking wounded out side Ton San Nhut AFB guarding the perimeter....some in wheel chairs...what a mess...That whole war was a mess..55,000 on LBJ's hands....How many more will die for stupid wars like the IRAQ war...which I was firmly against!My barber at the base was killed in the first assault...yes, he was a Cong.....hers to the ones that did not come back....God Bless![:(]
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  • pwilliepwillie Member Posts: 20,253 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    https://www.zoo.com/quiz/the-ultimate-vietnam-war-quiz?utm_source=revcontent&utm_medium=paid&utm_term=275&utm_content=conservative news&utm_campaign=Zoo-VietnamWarBL(desktop)&mkcpgn=i600008276
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  • OakieOakie Member Posts: 40,521 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Paul, Most of us younger guys cannot fathom, what you vets went through. My two uncles were there . One a Marine, the other a seabee , assigned to make runways. I was very small when I went with my dad, to pick them up at the trailways terminal, when they came home. Thank god they both made it, but you can see the mental scars from both of them. My dads cousin, took his own life, with one of pops rifles, about five years after coming home. The scars no one could see, except him[V] My father lost his left eye in a chemistry lab explosion, and therefor could not serve. I am very thankful for all you guys. God bless, Oakie
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  • IronrifleIronrifle Member Posts: 664 ✭
    edited November -1
    I was there also! A btry, 2/40th Arty, 199th LIB.. Day 2 we were at the end Of the Freedom bird Strip at TSN AFB!
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  • kissgoodnightkissgoodnight Member Posts: 4,063 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Has it been that long? I am an old man.
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  • fideaufideau Member Posts: 11,895 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My brother was there. I lost two friends in that mess.
    It was a winnable war, that the Dimocraps were too chickenship to win.
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  • Old-ColtsOld-Colts Member Posts: 22,697 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I remember, but I was stationed at NAS Corpus Christi at the time. I didn't see Vietnam until 1972.

    If you can't feel the music; it's only pink noise!

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  • mrshortymrshorty Member Posts: 110 ✭
    edited November -1
    I was there, First rocket hit the base chapel. thanks for all the army, marine corp. people there. I was air force and the only ones who had weapons were military police. I got to carry a small brass tag with the number of my assigned weapon on it. the weapon locked in a container in case we needed it in time of an attack. Fun Time. You Don't need a weapon here. Still Don't understand why I spent a week at Hamilton afb learning how to fire the m16,m60 and throw hand gernades as never saw one I could get hold of in Nam.
    dan
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  • mogley98mogley98 Member Posts: 18,291 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Thankfully not me.

    God bless all the Americans who have served and especially those who served in combat.

    I served in peace time and during my stint on board the Submarine Rescue I was in more danger of drinking myself to death then every being fired upon.
    Why don't we go to school and work on the weekends and take the week off!
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  • Big TwinBig Twin Member Posts: 100 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Do I remember it? Only with every step I take.
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  • da_tankda_tank Member Posts: 14 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Woke up to the first rocket hitting the Seabee hut. The first shot of "HUE" Tet. Remember the goose showing up. Thinking it wasn't to smart coming here. What a ifing bloody mess.
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  • OakieOakie Member Posts: 40,521 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by da_tank
    Woke up to the first rocket hitting the Seabee hut. The first shot of "HUE" Tet. Remember the goose showing up. Thinking it wasn't to smart coming here. What a ifing bloody mess.


    My cousin Tommy Watson, was there as a Seabee. Know the name???? He was there also. Oak
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  • pwilliepwillie Member Posts: 20,253 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    ....real close to a "Dien Bien Phu"....[:(]
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  • da_tankda_tank Member Posts: 14 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    The name Watson rings a bell, but after 12 years in the mil. Almost any name rings. I know most of the seabees who lived after the 68' TET were on boat that night. Maybe he remembers me, Richard Brown.
    I was Army but spent most of my time with the marines. " A real bunch of crazy guys". Who's only interest was a continuing game of high-low.
    I remember a marine Major Webb. also gunny Milks. I became friends with the sniper on the roof. I remember a Australian Named captain Anthony, I named my last son after him. This aussy sat on the roof of the command bunker drinking and singing, hed call any incoming.
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  • kimikimi Member Posts: 44,719 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Bless them all
    What's next?
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  • Laredo LeftyLaredo Lefty Member Posts: 13,451 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I arrived in country after TET. Was not sorry I missed it.
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  • Big TwinBig Twin Member Posts: 100 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Spent my days in country up around Pink Lady Mountain and FB12. Still have nightmares of those f'ing holes. Of the 14 of us buddies 11 of us were carried out for Evac.
    Took hit in left leg airlifted to hospital ship patched up rehabed sent back and then two days later 7.62 thru right hand an left wrist sent stateside as a "2timer" until discharge papers came through...AND I WAS ONE OF THE LUCKY ONES!!!
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  • pwilliepwillie Member Posts: 20,253 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    ...when it started,it was complete chaos....it took until 8:00 AM to get permission to fire on the city(Saigon).....absolute surprise...Fierce battle in the Cholon dist.....hot cokes and Japanese sardines.....for 8 days...this was not a movie....and you knew it...[:(]survival was the order of the day....
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  • kimikimi Member Posts: 44,719 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Bless them all
    What's next?
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