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early 1965 PI
MOS 0848 and 0849
1965 - 1966 Cuba, etc.
early 1967-late 1968 Nam, Bravo 1/13, towed 105s, I corps .....
early 1969 cross country chaser
late 1969 out
US Army, Jan 68 - Dec 71.
Basic: Ft. Leonard Wood MO
AIT: Ft. Devens MA
MOS 05H20
RVN: 175th USASA Operations Company, 303rd Bn, 509th Gp., II Field Force Vietnam, IIICTZ 1969-1970
basic FT. Bliss Texas, 2-68 to 4-68
67n20 SRTHR Ft. Rucker, Ala, 5-68 to 8-68
sent to Ft. Meade Md. 6th ACR
volunteered to the 237 medical detachment, (Helicopter Ambulance)
September 68
deployed as a unit from Ft. Meade to RVN, assigned to northern I corp Camp Evans, call sign DMZ dustoff associated with the 18th surgical hospital and attached to the 3rd brigade, 5th mechanized infantry division. Also flew missions for anyone else in the AO here from 11-68 to 11-69 especially the marines up in the fire bases along the DMZ the SF guys who were in the A Shau valley and an Austrialian advisor group to the ARVN. I was assigned crew chief on army huey 67-17673 and flew combat support mission until I stopped flying to DEROS in Novmeber 69.
DEROS november 69 assigned to FT Hood, Robert Gray army airfield, and flew another year with the 55th Aviation Bn. Early out January 71 to go to school.
Don't know if this is just Army but here goes: U.S. Air Force
1964-Basic at Lackland AFB, Texas
Nov1964-Apr-1965- Airframe Technical School, Amarillo, Texas
May-Jul
1966-1967-- Arrived RVN Phan Rang AB- Assigned 366th Tac Fighter Wing (F-4 aircraft). 366th reassigne to DaNang. Assigned 35th Tac Fighter Wg (F-100 Aircraft). Shop Overage,Flew door gunner for 30 days, Gunner for Convoys to Cam Rahn AB,temp duty to Security forces, Air Police Augmentee. Didn't get to work many aircraft, only in shop for about 2 months, loaned out most of the time because of shop overage.
Assigned Nellis AFB Nevada.
1968-1969-- Arrived RVN Phan Rang AB- Assigned 310th Consolidated Aircraft Maint. Sq. Also assigned Heavy Weapons Section, Air Police as Augmentee (assigned to motar Pit and APC gunner.
1969 Assigned Travis, AFB. California
Served 21 years in Air Force and Retired in 1985.
Basic, Lackland, 1960.
Russian Language School, Bloomington, IN, 1961-62.
6915th, Hof Air Station, West Germany, 1962~64.
Further Russian Language School, Syracuse NY, 1964~65.
Viet Nam Language School, Monterey, 1965~66.
6924TH Security Squadron, Da Nang Viet Nam, 1966~68.
Discharged to Fort Wayne hospital, with multi-phasic, anti-social, passionate, self-destructive, sociopathic personality disorder, constant elopement fantasies, Thorazine and Lithium treatment. So far, so good. And then Agent Orange .......
Ft Jackson SC Basic, AIT and PP Instructor Jan 68 - Dec 68.
HQ 704th Maint BN, 4th Infantry Div, Jan 69 - Dec 69
MOS 74B BN Clerk No Combat, just INCOMING.....
Haven't been on this site in a year. This is an interesting topic.
A little guessy on the dates, but here goes,
U.S. Navy basic training, San Diego, September 1971.
Damage Control "A" School, Treasure Island, December 1971.
USS Oriskany, CVA 34, 1971-3
TDY to TF 117, Binh Thuy VN, 1972
quote:Originally posted by VinhlongVet71
Not beyond the realm of possibility of one of us here crossing paths
from what I've read. Good post Jim Rau[;)]
Basic at Ft. Jackson, S.C. Aug-Sept 1970
Did AIT at Ft. Rucker, AL 67N20 UH-1 maintenance/door gunner.
Deployed for RVN July 1971. Ended up in the Mekong Delta in province
of Vinhlong. 1st Avn. Brig/114th AHC.
I returned with all my parts and spent my final year in the Army at
Ft. Carson, CO 4th Inf. Div. 1/19th Field Artillery. I was a clerk
in the Battalion Headquarters.
I was assigned to the 4th Engineers, A Co but I was elected as post chairman for the Enlisted Men's Council while John Bennett (MG) was the post commander. I Did go to the 1/19th on occasion.Small world.[8D]
Basic 1957-58 Ft Jackson,SC
Advanced Inf Ft Dix 1958
Jump School Ft Campbell 1958
501st Sig,101st Abn Ft Campbell 58-60
Ft Benning 2nd ID 61-62
Germany 62-67
Ft Gordon Sept 67-Jan 68
RVN Nha Trang 459th Sig ,1st Sig Bde 68-69
Germany 69-76
Ft Gordon 31m Course Instructor,Plt Sgt and Operations Sgt76-78
Retired Sept 78
Army Infantry 1542
1968 Ft Dix Basic and AIT
1969 OCS
1969 Ft Carson 137th Inf, 5th/10th Mech Inf
1970-71 Di An Advisor School, Adv Tm #86 Long An, MAT III #26 Can Douc District
Trained the RF/PF/PSDF
1971 District Senior Advisor
1971-75 100th Training Div
I took basic at Ft Polk jan 63,then went to Ft Huachuca az.to End platoon 8612 till 65,then to Ft Belvoir for 4 months, then 123rd Trans Co TS in VN spent almost all my time in Phan Rang as the detachment motor sgt.From there to Ft Leonard Wood Mo for 18 months then 3 years in Germany in 23rd Eng Bn 3AD.Then 3 years in 92nd Eng Bn at Ft Stewart Ga.Finally gave up active duty,but joined the SeaBee reserve for another 16 years.
Sgt Michael Springborn USAF 1964-1968
Basic Lackland AFB Texas
Jet Engine School Amarillo AFB Texas AFC 43250
Grand Forks AFB SAC B-52H & KC135A 1964 - 1968
TDY Kadena AFB Okinawa 1965 Young Tiger - KC135 in shop
TDY Utapal AFB Thialand 1966-1967 Arc Light B-52 & KC135
TDY Anderson AFB Guam 1968 Arc Light B52 & KC135
Served with Honor and Pride
Mike: Small world. I was Arc Light, Young Tiger and Iron Dukes 1965-1966. B52 tailgunner out of Columbus AFB, Miss. Just found my Young Tiger certificate a couple of months ago after all these years. My son thinks it's awesome. Little does he know. The best to you and all you guys.
Not in country but 1964 Basic at Ft. Knox,
1965 Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Md for Hvy Equip. Maint.,
1966 556 Ord Co. 71Maint. Btn. Zirndorf, Germany, transfered to Co. B, 71st Maint. Btn., Schweinfort, Germany,
1967 66th HEM, 71st Maint. Btn., in Kitzigen, Germany until discharge in July at Ft. Dix. A few of my friends had their tours extended and sent to Nam.
My MOS was 63H20.
Last 6mo. of my tour was driving courier all over Germany.
My THANKS for all you guys that spent time in country.
US Army, 1967-1970
Basic training at Ft. Gordon, Ga
AIT at Ft. Lee, Va
MOS: 94B20 Cook
(How come wannabe's and fakers never claim to be cooks?)
1968-1969 At Ft Carson, Colo with HHB 46th Field Artillery Group.
Summer of 1969 I requested overseas service in the Republic of Vietnam.
Oct 69 - Oct 70, Camp Red Devil, Quang Tri Province a few miles south of the DMZ with 75th Support Battalion, 1st Infantry Brigade, 5th Infantry Division (Mechanized).
Member: VFW, American Legion, AMVETS, Vietnam Veterans of America, Society of the 5th Division.
Drafted> July 1970
Basic training>Fort Leonard Wood
AIT> Fort Ord, Ca> Infantry
arrived at Cam Rahn Bay in Dec 1970 Vietnam
assigned to 1st Air Cav Div A 1/12
11B20 MOS
left RVN Dec 1971
USS yorktown CVS-10 sept.65-Jan. 67 wespac Yankee station .
Amphib base Coronado - Camp Pendelton - Whidbey Isl.survival training.
In country Nha Be Mekong Delta Feb. 67- Feb.68
USS Mccaffery DD 860 March 68-March 69 Atlantic
Gunners Mate E5
basic Ft Campbell, Ky. June/Aug. '69
ATI Aberdeen p.g. Md. Aug./Nov. '69 mos 45b20 (small arms repair)
Karlsrue, Germany Dec.'69/June '70 B co 51st Mait. Bn
Long Bin, VN Aug. '70/ March '72 588th Maint co. CC&S div. then converted to 567th Trans. Co. CC&S div. (Collection, Clasification, & Salvage).
Enlisted January 1968.
Basic Training: Ft. Leonard Wood MO
AIT: Ft. Devens Massachusetts
MOS: 05H20
RVN: 175th US Army Security Agency Operations Company, 303rd Bn., 509th ASA Group, II Field Force Vietnam Combat Command, III CTZ, 1969-70
68-71 68 basic 69 medic@ft Sam then airborne
Nov 69-71 medic 2/502
Early 71 Eagle Dustoff I Corp
84-86 Honduras training Contras
Kinda forgot who I worked for then!
Served at Phan Rang aB, transfered to Vung Tau (in-country R&R site) at the I think 535 Trop Carrier Squadron then finished up and returned to the world in 1967. Brother was killed by a road side bomb in 1968.
Summary: The war or conflict as the politicians called it wasn't worth it and I doubt if we have the Vietnam debt paid off yet. I'm a member of Agent Orange Health Cl;ub!
Enlisted Marine Corps-1967
San Diego July 1967
Bounced around a lot. Camp Pendleton, Millington, Tenn., shipped to El Toro with two hundred other guys because schools at Millington were full, back to Millington for training in hydraulics. From there had choice of orders so went back to Pendleton to the OV-10A squadron for training. After training there was transferred to New River,N.C. Spent a couple of months there before getting orders to RVN. Back to Pendleton before being shipped out to Da Nang where I was assigned to HML-167 at Marble Mountain in Jan. 1969. Left there on Christmas Day to head back to the states where I was stationed at Yuma, Arizona for my last 18 months. I was assigned to VMAT 102 there. Sorry, I can't remember all the dates.
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MOS 0848 and 0849
1965 - 1966 Cuba, etc.
early 1967-late 1968 Nam, Bravo 1/13, towed 105s, I corps .....
early 1969 cross country chaser
late 1969 out
AIT Ft Leonardwood 68 -69
Ft Hood Tx 69
VN Zom Tom & Zion Sep 69 - Nov 70
MOS 71H20
Not nearly as exciting as a lot of you guys, just a plain old soldier
Basic: Ft. Leonard Wood MO
AIT: Ft. Devens MA
MOS 05H20
RVN: 175th USASA Operations Company, 303rd Bn, 509th Gp., II Field Force Vietnam, IIICTZ 1969-1970
67n20 SRTHR Ft. Rucker, Ala, 5-68 to 8-68
sent to Ft. Meade Md. 6th ACR
volunteered to the 237 medical detachment, (Helicopter Ambulance)
September 68
deployed as a unit from Ft. Meade to RVN, assigned to northern I corp Camp Evans, call sign DMZ dustoff associated with the 18th surgical hospital and attached to the 3rd brigade, 5th mechanized infantry division. Also flew missions for anyone else in the AO here from 11-68 to 11-69 especially the marines up in the fire bases along the DMZ the SF guys who were in the A Shau valley and an Austrialian advisor group to the ARVN. I was assigned crew chief on army huey 67-17673 and flew combat support mission until I stopped flying to DEROS in Novmeber 69.
DEROS november 69 assigned to FT Hood, Robert Gray army airfield, and flew another year with the 55th Aviation Bn. Early out January 71 to go to school.
1964-Basic at Lackland AFB, Texas
Nov1964-Apr-1965- Airframe Technical School, Amarillo, Texas
May-Jul
1966-1967-- Arrived RVN Phan Rang AB- Assigned 366th Tac Fighter Wing (F-4 aircraft). 366th reassigne to DaNang. Assigned 35th Tac Fighter Wg (F-100 Aircraft). Shop Overage,Flew door gunner for 30 days, Gunner for Convoys to Cam Rahn AB,temp duty to Security forces, Air Police Augmentee. Didn't get to work many aircraft, only in shop for about 2 months, loaned out most of the time because of shop overage.
Assigned Nellis AFB Nevada.
1968-1969-- Arrived RVN Phan Rang AB- Assigned 310th Consolidated Aircraft Maint. Sq. Also assigned Heavy Weapons Section, Air Police as Augmentee (assigned to motar Pit and APC gunner.
1969 Assigned Travis, AFB. California
Served 21 years in Air Force and Retired in 1985.
Russian Language School, Bloomington, IN, 1961-62.
6915th, Hof Air Station, West Germany, 1962~64.
Further Russian Language School, Syracuse NY, 1964~65.
Viet Nam Language School, Monterey, 1965~66.
6924TH Security Squadron, Da Nang Viet Nam, 1966~68.
Discharged to Fort Wayne hospital, with multi-phasic, anti-social, passionate, self-destructive, sociopathic personality disorder, constant elopement fantasies, Thorazine and Lithium treatment. So far, so good. And then Agent Orange .......
HQ 704th Maint BN, 4th Infantry Div, Jan 69 - Dec 69
MOS 74B BN Clerk No Combat, just INCOMING.....
A little guessy on the dates, but here goes,
U.S. Navy basic training, San Diego, September 1971.
Damage Control "A" School, Treasure Island, December 1971.
USS Oriskany, CVA 34, 1971-3
TDY to TF 117, Binh Thuy VN, 1972
Not beyond the realm of possibility of one of us here crossing paths
from what I've read. Good post Jim Rau[;)]
Basic at Ft. Jackson, S.C. Aug-Sept 1970
Did AIT at Ft. Rucker, AL 67N20 UH-1 maintenance/door gunner.
Deployed for RVN July 1971. Ended up in the Mekong Delta in province
of Vinhlong. 1st Avn. Brig/114th AHC.
I returned with all my parts and spent my final year in the Army at
Ft. Carson, CO 4th Inf. Div. 1/19th Field Artillery. I was a clerk
in the Battalion Headquarters.
I was assigned to the 4th Engineers, A Co but I was elected as post chairman for the Enlisted Men's Council while John Bennett (MG) was the post commander. I Did go to the 1/19th on occasion.Small world.[8D]
Nha Trang
Pleiku
Ban Me Thuot: B-23 and surrounding A-s
Advanced Inf Ft Dix 1958
Jump School Ft Campbell 1958
501st Sig,101st Abn Ft Campbell 58-60
Ft Benning 2nd ID 61-62
Germany 62-67
Ft Gordon Sept 67-Jan 68
RVN Nha Trang 459th Sig ,1st Sig Bde 68-69
Germany 69-76
Ft Gordon 31m Course Instructor,Plt Sgt and Operations Sgt76-78
Retired Sept 78
Can you imagine being stationed at an in-country R&R center with beaches full of nurses from Australia, New Zealand and the U.S..[:p]
I guess some guys have all the luck..[8D]
Welcome Home.
1968 Ft Dix Basic and AIT
1969 OCS
1969 Ft Carson 137th Inf, 5th/10th Mech Inf
1970-71 Di An Advisor School, Adv Tm #86 Long An, MAT III #26 Can Douc District
Trained the RF/PF/PSDF
1971 District Senior Advisor
1971-75 100th Training Div
Answer for 70-101, yes I was at Camp Crockett and what a S#### Hole that was.
Worst training facility in the Army, the place should have been condemned by the IG.
RVN Chu-Lai & DaNang
23rd Inf Div Americal
196th LIB
Basic Lackland AFB Texas
Jet Engine School Amarillo AFB Texas AFC 43250
Grand Forks AFB SAC B-52H & KC135A 1964 - 1968
TDY Kadena AFB Okinawa 1965 Young Tiger - KC135 in shop
TDY Utapal AFB Thialand 1966-1967 Arc Light B-52 & KC135
TDY Anderson AFB Guam 1968 Arc Light B52 & KC135
Served with Honor and Pride
Sgt Michael Springborn USAF 1964-1968
Basic Lackland AFB Texas
Jet Engine School Amarillo AFB Texas AFC 43250
Grand Forks AFB SAC B-52H & KC135A 1964 - 1968
TDY Kadena AFB Okinawa 1965 Young Tiger - KC135 in shop
TDY Utapal AFB Thialand 1966-1967 Arc Light B-52 & KC135
TDY Anderson AFB Guam 1968 Arc Light B52 & KC135
Served with Honor and Pride
Mike: Small world. I was Arc Light, Young Tiger and Iron Dukes 1965-1966. B52 tailgunner out of Columbus AFB, Miss. Just found my Young Tiger certificate a couple of months ago after all these years. My son thinks it's awesome. Little does he know. The best to you and all you guys.
66-67, http://www.458seatiger.info/pbr.html[url][/url]
1966 along with most grunts I developed a mistrust of the M16, I own several 223 rifles but I wouldn't own a M16 or any of it's clones
1965 Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Md for Hvy Equip. Maint.,
1966 556 Ord Co. 71Maint. Btn. Zirndorf, Germany, transfered to Co. B, 71st Maint. Btn., Schweinfort, Germany,
1967 66th HEM, 71st Maint. Btn., in Kitzigen, Germany until discharge in July at Ft. Dix. A few of my friends had their tours extended and sent to Nam.
My MOS was 63H20.
Last 6mo. of my tour was driving courier all over Germany.
My THANKS for all you guys that spent time in country.
Basic training at Ft. Gordon, Ga
AIT at Ft. Lee, Va
MOS: 94B20 Cook
(How come wannabe's and fakers never claim to be cooks?)
1968-1969 At Ft Carson, Colo with HHB 46th Field Artillery Group.
Summer of 1969 I requested overseas service in the Republic of Vietnam.
Oct 69 - Oct 70, Camp Red Devil, Quang Tri Province a few miles south of the DMZ with 75th Support Battalion, 1st Infantry Brigade, 5th Infantry Division (Mechanized).
Member: VFW, American Legion, AMVETS, Vietnam Veterans of America, Society of the 5th Division.
Basic & AIT at Ft Leonard Wood
RVN Chu-Lai & DaNang
23rd Inf Div Americal
196th LIB
When were you there???
Basic training>Fort Leonard Wood
AIT> Fort Ord, Ca> Infantry
arrived at Cam Rahn Bay in Dec 1970 Vietnam
assigned to 1st Air Cav Div A 1/12
11B20 MOS
left RVN Dec 1971
Amphib base Coronado - Camp Pendelton - Whidbey Isl.survival training.
In country Nha Be Mekong Delta Feb. 67- Feb.68
USS Mccaffery DD 860 March 68-March 69 Atlantic
Gunners Mate E5
ATI Aberdeen p.g. Md. Aug./Nov. '69 mos 45b20 (small arms repair)
Karlsrue, Germany Dec.'69/June '70 B co 51st Mait. Bn
Long Bin, VN Aug. '70/ March '72 588th Maint co. CC&S div. then converted to 567th Trans. Co. CC&S div. (Collection, Clasification, & Salvage).
Basic Training: Ft. Leonard Wood MO
AIT: Ft. Devens Massachusetts
MOS: 05H20
RVN: 175th US Army Security Agency Operations Company, 303rd Bn., 509th ASA Group, II Field Force Vietnam Combat Command, III CTZ, 1969-70
Nov 69-71 medic 2/502
Early 71 Eagle Dustoff I Corp
84-86 Honduras training Contras
Kinda forgot who I worked for then!
Boot camp: Gulfport,MS / Camp Pendleton,Ca / Amphib: Port Hueneme and Coronado,Ca
RVN- Camp Evans / Camp DeShirley / Phu Bai / Phu Luc / Saigon / Mekong Delta
Summary: The war or conflict as the politicians called it wasn't worth it and I doubt if we have the Vietnam debt paid off yet. I'm a member of Agent Orange Health Cl;ub!
San Diego July 1967
Bounced around a lot. Camp Pendleton, Millington, Tenn., shipped to El Toro with two hundred other guys because schools at Millington were full, back to Millington for training in hydraulics. From there had choice of orders so went back to Pendleton to the OV-10A squadron for training. After training there was transferred to New River,N.C. Spent a couple of months there before getting orders to RVN. Back to Pendleton before being shipped out to Da Nang where I was assigned to HML-167 at Marble Mountain in Jan. 1969. Left there on Christmas Day to head back to the states where I was stationed at Yuma, Arizona for my last 18 months. I was assigned to VMAT 102 there. Sorry, I can't remember all the dates.
Semper Fi