Posted by JDseller on September 11, 2012 at 08:43:07 from (208.126.196.144):
In Reply to: Re: please read this posted by dhs on September 11, 2012 at 03:59:11:
dhs: Well you can call me a liar, as it is easy on the Internet. You posted you where in Vietnam in 1971. You say you where a Marine. Where and what did you do??? I had fellow Marines in Force recon units and they smuggled things in and out of Nam all of the time. The main line units where in tighter controlled bases. The Special units where not. The men in them where not the most friendly toward the command structure.
Well I was there form 1969 until 1973 and then in Laos until 1974
I was in the 75th Ranger Infantry Regiment( Airborne)
In May 1969 I was stationed in Vietnam. I was moved in to a LRRP platoon for in country final training.
In June 1969, I was assigned to Company "E" within the 173 Airborne Brigade.
In July 1970, my Platoon was transfered to Company "H" under the the 1st. Calvary unit. We where there until they pulled out in mid 1972.
My platoon was then still in country but not assigned to any one unit. I think we where "off book" the high ups where "hiding" combat units as the politicians where driving the combat numbers down.
As for what happened. It happened like I said. Those girls where on the base for almost six months. They stayed in the nurse"s tent. The base command structure turned a blind eye unless you really got stupid. Younger women where frowned upon. Kids where never worried about. Most of the commanders knew they where asking us to do stuff that no man should have to do. So when we where back on base very few messed with us. Those that did PAID for it. I mean even officers. Ever see what a brick of C-4 will do to a Officer"s jeep??? We did wait until he was out of it but not by much. He got the message. The next time we would not have waited. We where in the mind set that we would do what we where ordered in the field but other than that leave us alone.
At the end of the six months( late 1972) the war was being spun down. There was just about a regular stream of kids snuck out on Air force flights. I could get a kid to the Philippines or Guam easier that I could get a three day pass. There where enough of the fly boys that the LRRPs had rescued from the Vietcong that they would do some crazy stuff for us.
The nurses made some generic uniforms with no rank or name on them for the girls. Just military green. They carried a back pack with civilian cloths in them. They walked right on a troop transport with a company being reassigned. The base commander made sure they got on the plane fine. My platoon owed him a favor.(That favor all most got the whole platoon killed but we did it gladly) They then where taken to Guam. There a group of returning nurses took them with them to Hawaii. There My Grand Father walked right on the air field and walked the girls off the base. There again the Base commander watched to make sure that things went as they should.
The units that where in the actual hot seat racked up favors from many places. You drop in and help keep a base from being over ran. Maybe get to a down flier before the VC could get him and what do you think he would do for you??? Maybe the young officer you kept from getting killed was the son, nephew or something of some high up. Think that meant anything???
So I will tell you this. There are guys that could ask me for anything I have and I do mean anything an it would be theirs. There are men that feel that way about me as well. There are bonds formed in those type of battles that are stronger than any marriage on this earth.
Plus another thing that helped then. We all knew what was going to happen when the US pulled out of South Vietnam. The Russians and Chinese where going to make the North win. When that happened any one that had much to do with the US was DEAD!!! Did not make any different as to age or gender.
If you say that did not happen then I KNOW you never where in anything other than major unit battles, if that. I have helped bury whole villages killed just because they would not help the Vietcong. I do mean the whole village. Men, women and the children. I will not tell you how many of them died. Lets just say I can still see it in my mind now.
So for the guys supporting me on here. Thanks but I really don"t need it or even want it. I am tied of being called a liar and arguing with people. Life is too short. My life could end right now and I am at peace with my maker and that is all that matters.
Larry send me an email I need your address. I have some stuff I want to send you.
To the rest I will be back but not for a while. I need the time to get my mind straight on many things.
This post was edited by JDseller at 23:03:31 09/11/12.
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