But when shit happens to you and you are the victim, everything changed! My body was always waiting to react. Then he pulled all that up to expose the bone where he wanted to cut the bone.The nurse held all the skin and muscle up while the Doc cut off the bones. Just keep on working in the rain. Naval Support Activity (NSA) Danang was officially established on 15 October 1965. I wanted to know everything about what happened to those Marines. 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 wood frame building that I did was behind the camera. Surprise, I think that was normal precaution . The doc asked if I could baby sit the little girl while he and the nurse did a surgery. Some morning I would be more tired when I woke up than when I went to bed. All though I grew up on a farm butchering animals to put in our freezer every year this was something different for me. This was 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, port activity, etc. Just to the right of H e had white hair and a white beard and very much looked like Santa Clause. Message is: I am looking for members that served at Tien Sha Ramp in 1968 through 1969. The fleet also managed logistic operations at these locations. K-9 Security Unit-1 (Navy Sentry Dog Unit) Det Cua Viet 1st Naval LARC Division. [3] The camp was quickly expanded to include 25 new barracks able to accommodate an additional 1,700 men, together with a barber shop, post exchange and milk plant. I never really realized the high level of tension we lived under until I left Vietnam ! [2] Well I had 2 sets that were issued to me when I went threw weapons training at Coronado and Camp Pendleton. It was just after 1700 so I was good. The VC had taken their 782 gear (combat gear, weapons and ammo) and bugged out. We hopped in his truck and he took me down to H&S company supply to get bedding and mess gear. Honorably Discharged as a QM2(SS) in 1971ish. The trailer was to short so the Marines legs were bent at the knees and sticking up, no shoes, pant legs up to their knees showing their very white legs. Some time before the end of the month we got three more guys in . and to listen to music. 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. from two times. Remember the talk we got about staying away from the prostitutes that I got my first day in Vietnam? I couldn't grasp what was going on at the time. Looking back, have little early to get back in school and finish my degree. Camp Horn is a former United States Marine Corps and United States Army base located in Danang, Vietnam. This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Naval History and Heritage Command. That sure screwed with our sleep! I served there and just would like to hear from some of the guys that was there. at Camp Fay. Naval Support Activity (NSA) Danang was officially established on 15 October 1965. Camp Tien Sha is a former United States Navy base located in Danang, Vietnam. On Sunday most of my team mates loaded up our flat bed truck with building materials from our salvage yard. The three strong backs that I was to build for 7th motors was put on hold. MST1 and thought it would be a good time to go back and see On the back of the truck was his dog Judy and inside on the dashboard was an M-16 rifle. This was a Sunday afternoon BBQ about 1800 hr. It sure seemed longer then a month, to me it was more like a few months! After a couple rocket and mortar attacks my brain never went completely to sleep. Additional responsibilities included harbor defense and the transshipment of cargo to the smaller ports in the region. I was hugely Some times she would get so drunk that she couldn't walk anymore, was really funny watch her four legs going in different directions! Camp Haskins, Da Nang, Vietnam, served as headquarters of the 30th Naval Construction Regiment, who exercised operational control of Seabee units deployed to Vietnam. Some [3] NSA Danang originally operated from a commercial pier on the city side of the Hn River and this "Museum Ramp" (160300N 1081328E / 16.05N 108.2245E / 16.05; 108.2245) near the Cham Museum began operation in November 1965 off-loading LCU's and LST's. Everyone had his turf marked out and nobody was willing to give any for me. Because of the rocket attack on May 13 (rockets hit with in 50 yard of this building) some of the officers there wanted escape doors out the back of the building where they were starting to build their own bunkers. painting rocks. The Chief did manage to get bedding (Ha,Ha) I got one bed sheet and one pillow case. right out of there. On May 22 at 0200 hr. The tents were on the right. African Americans perceived racial issuesrace relations, prejudice, and discriminationin Vietnam through a lens heavily influenced by their earlier experiences in the United States. The crew truck got there about 1745 hr or so and the doc was still busy. I was going to have to hit the ground running if I intended to stay with this team. Management and planning of the logistic flow needed refinement, as ships arrived en masse with cargo improperly stowed and packaged. The rocket attacks after that the would be on target! I did spend plenty of time on Marine firebases around the Da Nang-Phu Bai area and spent time at a camp located at Phu Loc. She would throw dirt into the air and scratch at her face until it was bleeding , rubbing dirt into the cuts. That was necessary because Another thing that screwed up the night for us was our night radio, phone watch, it was a real bitch ! Naval Support Activity DaNang (1965-1970), the U.S. work out the details with him. I needed to know which of the sound meant danger! For the time being they were stashed in my hooch and on May 24, Karl Voiles spent his first day assembling beds. In mid-October 1968 the Deep Water Pier complex ( 16.12N 108.214E) on the Tien Sha peninsula was completed, beginning operations in September 1968. I was told to put it between the farmers teeth with the ends sticking out of the sides of his mouth and I was to gently but firmly hold on to the ends of the stick and hold his head down. In other words, if you could drive a Corvair fast and survive you Tracers were bouncing all over in front of the truck. I feel strongly about it and love learning more on this topic.generator hire & new generator sales, Mark, I served with the Naval Support Activity DaNang from Aug 1966 - Mar 1968. This is the first Poem that I wrote in Vietnam and is about the two marines killed in the skivvy house. was about vehicles, building vietnamandmilitary $6.00 Original, In Wrapper P-38 Vietnam War vietnamandmilitary $175.00 Naval Support Activity, Da Nang 1968 Cruise Book vietnamandmilitary Seller Information Seller vietnamandmilitary Contact Seller Made a very good impression on me, I didn't even consider it my whole time in Vietnam ! Drive out the back gate and about 2 miles to the Navy Seabee base. Travis, Hawaii, Subic Bay (and shore patrol in Olongapo), then to If they were caught they were punished by court marshal and were busted one pay grade. After the little girl died I never went back to the clinic. On February 10, 1970, SN Robert T. Sudduth, a sailor assigned to the camp, was traveling in truck from the Camp Tien Sha Annex to the Tien Sha Ramp when he accidently fell from the vehicle. hair cutting all my time there aside An example of what we did. So I took a trip in September 2016 back He was driving a 1 1/2 ton flat bed stake truck and was making the rounds to pick up supplies. Significant Events 19-31 August 1970 19-28 October 1970 5 November 1970 13 November 1970 15 November 1970 naval reserves just before graduating from high school in 1962. $10 of that came from me. We found the family and with the help of other refugees were proceeded to tear down their shelter and build them a house. [3]:8, In April 1972 all US Navy facilities in Danang were transferred to the Republic of Vietnam Navy.[4]. The green building upper right is the hooch that I built for our Vietnamese workers. "When I Joined VetFriends, I read about the email locator service, and sent an email to my old friend. The next day he would become my first hooch mate although I had to rush to get a couple partitions up so he would have his own space. Long , long ago, far, far away on the other side of the OK, Im new here, the rooky, VVA's goals . and drop their bow ramps. Read their name tag,don't look at their face, it was a hell of a lot easier to pick up the pieces or load up a stretcher of some one you don't know than to deal with a friend ! I was finished with my concrete forms before noon on Wednesday . The U.S. Navy established the MST-1 detachment to train Vietnamese crews and maintain PTFs in February 1964. So off to Camp Tien Sha to get my gear and check out. You forget the bad things and you remember the good So on the hour we would get a call. This is a 122mm rocket crater in the road in front of our shop. Relive & share the memories of your service time with your brothers & sisters in arms today. Bruce Moore says he first returned from a 13-month stint in the Vietnam War to a "poor response." "We were at Norton Air Force Base. Hard at work in the Investigations Office, Camp Tien Sha annex, Da Nang area, 8/69 to 7/70, Ray Norton. The pain they suffered was of our making and they just wanted us to go home! You have destroyed my country and my family! to return to of the DaNang Military Complex, One of Jeep parts? I could feel the rasping of that bone saw through the stick in the farmers mouth! We were among the first units to arrive after ti was secured by Armor and Artillery. I had a ball throwing that jeep So my hooch would now have 5 of us. Chn Thnh Camp. The Marine on the left was blond and looked like a California surfer.He to had been shot in the back of the head. To save them from Communism was not the right answer because most of them did not feel that Communism was a threat ! person who was awake had access to the keys to the jeep. Mostly I was just kind of mentally numb. I guess that is why there were a lot of E-2 in the Marines. Pett George my ex UDT instructor allowed me to go through the class early being as how my older brother Jay and my Dad were going through the class too. They had to be manned 24 hours a day. My station when couple of Corvairs (ok, stop laughing!) It was what those He always seemed happy and smiling and the whole time he was around the clinic I never heard him speak a single work. Well, the Camp Tein Sha barracks got me for Friday, and Saturday. If you are able to extract the I forgotten how much it sucked being there? After checking in, I was assigned to identified as "enlisted head." things. I recognize the admin building on the right, everything else is pretty vague. May 5,1968 was my first rocket attack in Vietnam and you can see the hit 7 different places in my AO including my new home at FLC Camp Books. the duty jeep normally delivered the crew to the base in the It was at maximum power and flying very fast. He seemed totally comfortable and relaxed. 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. Naval Communication Facility. 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! Charlie 2. 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. But I don't consider myself as one. on the National Geographic Magazine The MPs left in a hurry. I was aguard for Tien Sha Peninsula Security division. I took this photofrom the stern of YFU 80 which was docked at SCRF, looking across Da Nang harbor at sunset. Some part of it was always listening to what was going on . I believe that on May 21 we had hits to the sick bay which was a big rebuild job. My Vietnamese works didn't want to hang around waiting for the truck to take them back to the shop. to pull a copy and edit in the we took twelve 122mm rocket rounds, there was damage again at the motor pool. layout - (07-07-02) They were the best I could maids walked in and started cleaning What the F is wrong with her? At Freedom Hill you'll see some panoramic shots of the base and buildings (USO Club, ), likewise at Tien Sha (Snoopy's Chicken Hut, Acey Ducey Club). march in columns of two over to that building. side was a area called Bridge Ramp which was where the Navy LSTs would pull in Even now-days I hate phones,radios, air conditioning and coffee ! Suddenly the helicopter went nose high and stopped going forward. C Chi tunnels. Here is the letter I wrote my parents on May 15, 1968. I also made life long friends. 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 . ALL work centers report in : AWC # 1 reports everything is quite ! She would be down on her hands and knees crying and waling. Charles R. Smith . They were all in alignment with our generators. Very close now and it was clear that they weren't going to make it over the hurricane fence at the perimeter. Khoi Tran and Hong Th Hin faved this 3,723 views 2 faves 0 comments Taken on March 17, 2017 Some rights reserved Nikon SUPER COOLSCAN 9000 ED In March 1965 when United States Marine Corps combat troops landed at Danang, the support establishment was rudimentary. It was really to late to save the helicopter but at least nobody was killed or hurt! Da Nang Cluster. a shower enclosure that wasn't Cat Lo Naval Base. Why are you here in Vietnam ? Because I was just getting situated it was just mass confusion for me . The poor farmer had stepped on a mine. The carpenter flat bed truck. Drawing On Friday May 17 I was sent out on another job. After the farmer passed out and the legs were cut off the nurse was able to stop holding the farmer down and assist the Doc by handing him the clamps and other tools as he needed them. To know all the different sounds was to be able to read what was happening at night and how safe I was. Click here for inormation on the VVA. Recent photo of Cheryl and me basis One of them used to take me to the MACV Club located by the USS Repose. This is the Hoa Kahn clinic at the time I started working there. middle , Mr Kim a Korean Philco Ford electrician . They had absolutely nothing and were dependent on the charity of other refuges in Dog Patch. course. It was the UH-1 trailing smoke. It is very likely this was were the Marines were killed . Local Page TIMES-MIRROR and OBSERVER Section B WARREN, PA., WEDNESDAY. Closer and closer, the engine starting to whine! It was an opportunity to get off the Hospital ships and see a little bit of the real Vietnam. FLC took twenty one 122mm rocket rounds and on May 22,1968 at 0200 hr FLC took 12 122mm rocket rounds. There were two supply tents up there and when the Field Marines (grunts) would come in from the bush they would strip off all their dirty clothes and throw them in piles in one tent then go into the other tent and pick up clean uniforms. What was done was done! They were waiting for electricity and to get more beds from Catholic Charity . Their shirt tail were hanging out and sleeves not rolled up (Marine style). Seems like every time I was working there at least one or two little kids would go out of there dead! IN VIETNAM. Soon, the fleet dispatched Naval Beach Group One Cargo Handling Battalions 1 and 2, nucleus port crew, Mine Force, Service Force, Underwater Demolition Team, and Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) units to Danang. The following information was emailed in to Detachment Hue - 1965 - 1970. I didn't realize at the time that the intended target was me and the generators. 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. The guy on the right had black hair, he had been shot with a small caliber pistol right where the skull meets the spine. Smile like you mean it! through the base that would allow me to do "hot laps" as long as no embarrassed but she didn't seem to 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 ! We went downtown in Long Beach, and we got harassed a lot. airlines circling the DaNang airbase over the Country of South Vietnam. Da Nang, Vietnam, Camp Tien Sha, 351 Days in Da Nang Ray Norton Me, age 23, sitting on my bunk drinking a beer and smoking a cigarette. With chow finished I had the rest of this place, wearing only "shower And there were certainly good things there, at least in the The pilots jumped out . Over 130 rough terrain and warehouse forklifts and 20 cranes eased cargo handling. [1], U.S. NSA Danang was officially established on 15 October 1965 under the operational control of Commander, III MAF. We took several trucks and picked up Pham Ba and Babyson outside the gate and headed down the road. Not all the time but sometimes . Well whenever I was working in that area I would sneak in the tent and find some dirty uniforms,still in good shape and steal them, put them in my crew tool box and take them back to my hooch and hand wash them ! camp where you get sheared. We visited Chu Laiu, Hue, and our There were no more shots that day but there would be on the next two mornings. Despite these positive interactions with whites, African Americans did not view the armed forces as an institution free of racial prejudice. Alan on base She promised not to eat Puppy. couldn't resist testing it's limits! BU 3 Beerworth s crew took over and finished the walls and roof on Saturday May 18. This is the day I started my real job. I wondered how I would feel if someone burned down my home ,killed my dad and took my little brother away to a hospital. About a mile out the crew started kicking boxes out the doors. Keep exploring. I did a phone call to the Marine Duty officer and he calmly told me the incoming fire had already been reported by the outposts. Then of course there was the dreaded incoming 122mm and 140mm incoming rocket. Well damn right I was scared. 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). with her work. Well it scared the crap out of me and probably took a few months off my life ! We were not part of the Marine Civil Affair but worked independent of them. Only 364 more days to go! Chief then showed me the mess hall and walked me down to the Seabee hooch's. was directly below the building With over 81,000 members, VVA provides a community of fellowship with people who share common experiences, needs and hopes for the future. What we finally did was a one man 12 hour watch. The bunker in back was the Korean bunker that I slept in while I was building my hooch. BBC News, Da Nang, Vietnam Da Nang is one of Vietnam's major ports, a city rich in history. The fire was caused by a Air or artillery white phosphorus flare ( WP). Often the convoys would drop off kids from out in the bush. Over time that changed, I didn't want to know any newbies! I went out and sat on my toolbox and thought about what I had just experienced. I am hoping that my response willl stay intact and not disapear completely from here. It I got my NAUI Scuba diving cerification in July 1966. CONTACT: VETERANS CENTER OF NORTH TEXAS. kms.) There wasn't much blood ,just a small whelp where the bullet went in. The Doc first put surgical tourniquets on and took the belts off. There was always something interesting to watch at Camp Books. Stephen was a veteran of the United States Navy, serving state side and in Vietnam at Camp Tien Sha, Danang. I don't know what the building The next day a Chinook helicopter dropped a cable down to the burned out UH-1 and hauled it away. The nurse was carrying a little girl about 4 years old. . building. The only answer I could give them that they would except was. it for their personal use. Didnt take long to figure out that everyone could see that you were a FNG. I went home in August 1967, head has about the lightest colored The next work order I got for there I gave it to Beerworth and told him I would not work there any more! This is my Poem about the farmer who stepped on the mine. [ Base 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. thought about was the airbase in Danang was under attack, 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! of the guys took to securing a 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. two parts, right and left, I have to We weren't expecting any new men and we don't have the time to train you. even included a week in Coronado, a week at Pendleton (weapons really an enclosure. ( We called the Army Republic Of Vietnam police white mice because they were small, wore white helmets white web belts, white pistol holsters and white spats.) It was a real learning experience for the three of us. - (07-07-02) I have NO remberance of Another source for jungle fatigues was up at Camp Reasoner. Book description. The lumber and wood crates in upper right was the start of our lumber yard. Some of the women were in their early twenties, so there is still hope. technical and supply stuff. Ya, we continued our work and started building my hooch. Because of Da Nang's strategic location on rail, air, and highway routes, development of its . He was honorably discharged in 1968 after completing his tour in Vietnam, as Petty . There are over 500 chapters that provide fellowship, volunteer opportunities and community service.
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