I worked in the warehouse handing out Jungle uniforms to those coming in country and Khakis to those going home. Does anyone want to go to 1st CAV?. we finally were ordered to destroy it, those dam AGC type. You have to read my web page to see why! We were bounced out of our racks by incoming about 3:00 am. AND things did not work out there, and I was Traded to the 90th Replacement Battalion in Long Bien, back where I started.High Light: I Processed My Drill Sergeant, from Basic training at Ft. Bragg, into Country. CRITICALPAST.COM:
I remember what started off tasting great , cold milk or ice cream but just after passing the lips actually tasting like chalk. I am looking for contact with brothers from my first unit I was with permanent party with 19th dpu @ 90th repl bn. It was an experience to say the least. Hes a Special Operations 82nd Airborne 1st. https://booklife.com/project/long-daze-at-long-binh-23997 Do you remember the story about the wiener dog named Gunther who worked in Japan with our military & sniffed out 21 G.I.s??? send me an email and I will send you the link to my pictures on ritzpics. To Steven Kennedy: You guys transported a couple of buddies & myself from the 90TH to Camp Ray at Bien Hoa because as 11B(airborne qualified) we had been assigned to Recon platoon) HHC 1/503rd Airborne Infantry-173rd Airborne brigade on 2-15-16-1967 & the ride to Bien Hoa was uneventful. George, I arrived at the 90th Replacement Xmas of 69. I remember a SSg Blackwell, 9th Div R&R Rep during my tour from Sep 67 to Sep 68. After about 2 days inside this tent; they told approximately 5-6 of us to jump on a deuce & a half; we had been assigned to our units. I think we were18th but not sure. real creep. I wish Id taken more pics. I have tried to locate you, with no success. Just saw your post I was at the 90th 67-68 (feb) most time spent in the commo van dont think we had a commanding officer, do not remember one anyway Bn commanding officer was something like LTC Bingham or something like that. Maybe there wasnt anyone from Texas smart enough to run a computer. He walked out, with DOUBLE ISSUES of EVERYTHING. I arrived at the 90th on Aug. 8, 1968. Seems all you guys were with the 90th before me. The only officer in your list with whom i recognize the name is LT Kikuchi and I dont remember him but several others have mentioned him here and I was given a plaque for my service and he is listed as one of the contributors. Worked in the data processing section.. Our hootch was up by the road and at the far end from the Officers Club. And Long Binh was attacked in Feb 69, the baby TET. I went on R&R in July 68. Bad guard station was the women area and trying to keep me out, especially officers. PS my only ailment were ingrown toenails. in the Mess Hall.But it was short lived when we got off the plane at Travis in Oakland and not one person there to greet us and welcome us back home.No small flags no where. Call me when you get bored, and Ill tell you some good stories about Gary Frankel (18th Repl Co.) company clerk 1967. It had the record for the number of gigs for any truck there. Nobody like him. (If Tam Hiep was off limits, somebody forgot to tell us!) Listened to the first Super Bowl (though they didnt call it that) on Armed Forces Radio while drinking water out of a Lister bag. It blew at some point during my tour, mid 67 mid 68. Man, that was a long time ago.. Sergeant whose been deployed 8 times to hostile places. Does this help?? Lost contact with friends I made while I was there. I was in the field for one year with 2 R&Rs to Taipei which I enjoyed so much!!! Base went on lock down, perimeter was reinforced and the MPs took him away. Sent to 79th Engineer Gp down the road. My e-mail is: jimdugan1@msn.com, James, if you have any photos of 90th Replacement that you would like to share, send them my way and I will post them. Her Green Beret has met his fate I am not sure what the connection is to the 90th but it sounds familiar. Barracks..I worked Nights. I was at Camp Alpha from June 1969 to June 1970. For me,the experience was 6 days of in county formalization training for what was more likely to be worse challenges for any PFC 11B Rifleman with five months of training. I was a transient 11B10 Infantry soldier and spent only a few more days at the 90th before being sent to a permanent duty station at Cam Ranh Bay. They were starting to process around 30,000 troops to send to Vietnam. My girl took me to the most beautiful cinema that I have ever seen & we watched Doctor Zivago which lasted about 2 hours. On my 7th day, I was transferred to Cam Rahn Bay and spent the rest of my tour there as a personnel clerk, 74 D machine operator. Glad to see a post from Gary Larsen. It is amazing how shapes in the darkness began to take on form after a few hours. I left rvn on 12/1/67. by DH wheeler, cw0, Personnel Officer.. he referred to the assignment team as the stream. You might be interested in a humorous book coming We had a tent along ditch behind speaker stand on parade. We were across from Long Binh Jail. I was 73C20. well, something is missing. said the jeep to Long Binh had just left but if I wanted to take his jeep, he would send someone to get it the next day. Most memorable was a huey landing and an ambulance taking two guys away and then two guys with duffle bags boarded to take their place. Some say we had it made, ,but we worked some long days and nights and we still had to pull perimeter guard duty. Sadistic sense of humor on that chopper jockey. It looked like somebody stepped on an anthill at a Baptist picnic. I ARRIVED AT 90th on 12/11/66 so the attack was before me and I dont remember any talk about it. After 50 years, the smell of diesel still takes me back. He was also from Texas. I was stationed at the 90th Repl Bn from April 67 until August 1967. I am trying to find someone who can recall what happened at the 90th during Tet. Joseph Priest, while I do not remember your name, you are the first person who seems to have worked a CIF while I was there. The move was Westmorelands idea and was called, Operation M.O.O.S.E. Clarence, Camp Alpha was a unique place for Vietnam. So we did not have enough officers at LBJ to warrant separate clubs etc. I was finance clerk but may not may not have been cadre before you left. Whats going on in your world? [156] A thrust against Da Nang was preempted by the U.S. Marines Operation Allen Brook. I was embarrassed to have family see it so I tried to touch up parts. As I struggled to carry the barrels the shit slopped all over my uniform. I was with the 352nd Trans. Do it for those who like us went, but who can no longer can! The problem our hootch had was keeping all the electronics powered . I only know the history of this attack because the duty officer, about an hour after the attack, visited me and my two other guards to explain the outcome of the attack. What year?? Camp Alpha 69-70. I am email challenged as I hate gmail and lost my link with Outlook 2016. so if I dont respond I will try to get back to you. Steven, my name is Danny Brister; I was with the transpotation section at the 90th in 68 and 69 what year were you there, cannot forget those night rides thru Bien Hoa driving blackouts, we look like a train going thru town we were so close together, I know we sure scared some new replacements, scared myself sometimes. As I have previously mentioned, I was in the little commo unit at the 90th from July 67 to June 68. We were watching the evening outdoor movie when the screen lit up as if the sun had suddenly come up on the northern horizon. This was story stuff. I noticed the photo had wooden buildings and streets. such as officer swimming pool. Each nurse (in 1968) had an interview with the chief nurse before being assigned incountry. Got to the 90th Aug 7 68.guarded the dump my 1st night there. TET occurred during the period. (Vietnam War period). a couple of final questions, Did you see Nancy Sinatra at 1st log. it really sounds to me that I was there at the best time. We were the initial party that help build the camp in early 1966. Our NCOIC was Dieteter Schuster (Probably Misspelled)I I just want to thank all of you for your service! also he mentions Lt K and his name is listed also and i have no idea of him.lt Robin S Kent and Sgt Neilsen replaced DH Wheeler and they are the only bosses I remember. Thanks for your service!! All these latest Thanks for your service comments .are too little and too late! I was a Finance Clerk, 10th FDS, 73C20 MOS. and WHEELER DID NOT ALLOW ANY TYPOS SO I HAD A HELL OF A TIME DOING MORNING REPORTS,, afternoon reports, next morning reports, like Klinger on MASH. my name is jay caldwell, was from fla. got incountry nov 71, ended up at 90th as a securty guard with doug, flip and a few other son of guns. Best regards, Swore I would never wear a government uniform again. We also made runs from LBJ to the Third Field Hospital in Saigon and on occasion we would transport personnel to Camp Alpha at Tan Son Nhut AFB. Well it was dueling banjos with our m-60 machine gunner(Dennis Rocco) from the Bronx, N.Y. & the Viet Cong machine gunner. I have lost touch with them Its nice to hear from someone who was there. Many were E-4s or above who had some civilian schooling beyond high school and were workers. The odds was really stacked against him.But he was so determined to stomp that Russian,nothing was gonna stop him.Thats whats so great about what he did.And the whole Country was pulling for him.Even today,hes still the last lifter to beat a Russian.You can google Joe Dube Weightlifting and itll tell you all about him. License Agreement |
With my MOS, they did not need me, and I spent one night there. They were not amused. !Just a Blank Stare.I AM SORRY, for what I did. I dont remember the name, but Ive always been terrible with names. I was there for a few days waiting for transport to the 82 ABN but they changed my orders and I ended up with the 173rd at AN KHE, then down to Bao Loc. He believed that your R&R began the minute you arrived there. I have reread several all the blogs here and nothing hits home. Happily married, to a LADY I went to high school with. Im sure he was there at some point. Speaking of the media wanting to see heavy casualties. he He was the computer operator. and hide behind sandbags for several hours. Unfortunately that search did not yield much usable material. The first day I got guard duty with no weapon at one corner of the transient nurses quarters. I arrived in Nam in Oct 66. I arrived in-country at Tan Son Nhat Airport in Oct of 66. I was there from August 67-August 3, 1968. Thank you for your service and welcome home. I had my own business for 9 years, got divorced, went to work for Lockheed Martin Corp (LMC) I suffered a knee injury in Nam, finally went after the VA for comp & got 70% disability, but am IU, so have the benefits of 100%. I told the guy on duty with me to call ncoic of guards , I was going to stop the person. Chuck mason, I have his picture but don remember mos and name was a blank. SGT./BMC Clarence Rodger Hyler home town: Long Beach-Wilmington-San Pedro, California. I know we changed companies once or twice. Then was send up north to Da Nang and them camp Eagle. I was assigned to the Finance Unit at Bien Hoa Army Camp & when I got there they reassigned me to the 9OTH REPO DEPOT. My father retired in 1984 at the rank of Major. We operated out of semi trailers, air conditioned, only because of the computer equipment we were using. Guarding the same places you did. I ran out of M-79 rounds in about 20 minutes, most of my rounds impacted on vines and not the intended target. I didnt have to carry it so it was a step up. I remember when the VC blow up the ammo dump in Phu Tai. No outsiders who are looking for non-90th members who happened to have passed through and then moved on. I did TDY around country so sometimes I was not present, but I dont remember 3d Ord blowing up. Turned 21 @ the 90th(July). mike_slusser@hotmail.com. I dont recall many details of the next 3 hours, but at daylight a gunship settled overhead, opened up his mini-guns and shredded the treeline outside the wire. Went home Aug 69. I was Sgt/SPC 5 Nick Nichenko. Low Light: A guy I was in Basic training with, that should NOT have been Drafted, He Could NOT READ OR WRITE, he was like or almost 26 years old. Not bad duty. He said yes. Left from Tan Son Nut a year later 8/7/69. nope only the link appears. We did R&R Processing for the 90th and MACV out of Tan Son Nhut. I had left my HE Rounds with my pack and couldnt return fire with standard M-79 Shotgun rounds. Yes.everyone who knew himhated him. And pray for those in the service of our country now, like my son-in-law. I admit that some of my chats with the others here show some gaps in my memory so I will be anxious to see what they have. The Four seasons were one of a kind. Song I remember best: Somebody to Love Jefferson Airplane. I dont see a way tp attach them Youprobaly got picked for 90th the same way I did, dh wheeler, cwo, personnel officer had assignment team go thru files for those with civilian expereriemce in construction as opposed to military training. Ill never forget the bus ride from Bein Hoa Air Base to 90th Replacement, late at night, when I arrived In-Country. It was about 50 yds from the Commo trailer and consisted of a buried drum filled with rocks and diesel. What a treat that was. I abstained from other available activites. I worked at the Camp Alpha R&R processing from June 67 Jan 68. Since the window was below the level of the Quonset hut next door, I have always assumed it was a stray from a gunship engaged in a fight on the far side of the compound. They told us to stay on our bunks for one reason or another. some of my other duites included trips to Long Binh to 91st Fiance and pickup messagess and drive Wheelers laundry to bien Hoa. KLAUER, I just cannot place you in my photos That about all I come up with now. Actually, my first name is Leonard. No matter how dated, I can remember everything they did. Courage deep, from the Green Beret, Back at home a young wife waits I was 73c20 also and was a part of the 22nd finance unit in Bien Hoa. I drove bus for the 90th in 1970 to 1971, went from the replacement center to the top of the hill, after bus I went to tmp and guard truck driver spent 18 months in country, if there is any on else that drove bus on long binh post at that time I would like to hear from you. I kept looking around for the cameras. The group I arrived with was a fully loaded 707 and we got there right around midnight. After a couple of times at the big group assembly waiting to have my name called it was and a sergeant took me to the commo van and asked me if I would like to work there. We drank lots of 33 there and were ordered back to the compound a couple times by the MPs. Travis, I think my memory is growing weeds by leaps and bounds. Its a little sad that Im the first to mention this Vietnam Veterans Day because this day is for more that have over!! An aroma that cant be forgotten. BTW, excerpts from the book look pretty interesting. I have always tried to forget that year in Nam. 90THRPLN s Manifest team, in preparing flight manifests for planes out, took care of those who treated 90th personnel nicely, memories are still good, just failure to communicate!!!!! The plaque I found that my co workers gave me for outstanding service, not sure about all that but has the following names. Me & a couple of my friends DEROSED out of Vietnam from cam rahn bay on 2-11-1968 on a Northwest airlines 707 just as Tet 1968 was winding down. However, no photographs. , Head & Head Quarters, last one is the airbase, in Saigon. He served with the 90th Replacement Battalion twice. Rocco got the best of the Viet Cong machine gunner & his platoon fled the area & we continued our humping to meet up with the other units of our battalion. I had a room on the first floor of the barracks(actually two rooms, one with beds other a living room, I shared with Bruce Choen, until he went home, then A kid that was a Canadian Citizen(jail or ARMY). As a Goof. The fighting had no sooner died down around Saigon than U.S. forces in Qung Tn Province suffered what was, without doubt, the most serious American defeat of the war. I was there at the 90th from December 68 until January 1970. You served until January 1968? CO of 90th at time was a LTC Billingsley. The only show we were allowed to see was Nancy Sinatra, at 1st Log. by Front Gate. Looked into bring him back to the States, but the paper work would have taken months to fill out. I was new at the 90th when 3rd Ordnance blew, I arrived on 12/10/66. 68. i LEFT 12/1/67. SP5 Robert Galt, https://usastruck.com/2009/07/28/285/?replytocom=36548#respond, I have some photos fro 67 so email me at my new address and I will aee if any click with you. I did not witness one serious incident of bad behavior while at Camp Alpha & everyone was just happy to be out of the field for a one week R&R!!! If they had no story, they were invented by the media. The entire camp was really clean & organized & us transits were expected to help keep it that way. Ctr.) Needless to say, that was a moment of great embarrassment! 3/4 qtr ton 5 ton 18 wheeler and rt fork lift. There seemed to be some kind of music in the background that sounded like a cat in a meat grinder. I bought an AKAI self contained Reel to Reel,amp and Maimya sekor camera. Ken I remember Dunlap because we have a town near here by that name. Could you help? I remember standing in formation while they were calling out names for replacement. I was on a detail that moved px goods from one hooch to another. I looked into bringing him home with me, but with the hassle, he would have died before I could have got it done. I arrived at the 90th replacement in Oct 67. 59 MAPLE GROVE ROAD, P.O. When I got in-country the only beer we had was San Miguel in rusty cans! I did not get close but Tom scully is on top of create. Hey P, WELCOME HOME. Who remembers the Cherry Bar, behind the Esso station? We wanted it to be as comfortable as possible. Thank you Clarence, we did our best. I have pictures on ritz pics that I can give you asscess to, so please send me your real email address. I would sit outside one pay station in a chair to protect the guy inside giving out the pay. A little under armed consider the number of casuals we held daily. Your story re 3rd IRS is similar to what we experienced between 11/66 and 12/67. Problem solvedThe E-6s and above could not figure out who was the Officer.. OD(Olive Drab) , not a term thats been used much here, we wore white undies. I have lots of pictures to tie into my comments. We all had to pass an interview process to win assignment there. Thanks David. Dont remember the snake but do remember in the transient area when I first got there multiple locations where 55 gallon drums had been buried, open end up, and were used for urinals. I only worked in there maybe a couple of days and that was to pull records of KIAs, that was a downer. I was stationed about 20 miles southwest of there in a hamlet named Cau Bihn Loi. I was at the 90th for about two weeks in early 1970. Oh yeah the billets were concrete but wooden barracks when I was there Feb 19 1967. The 90th Personnel Company at Ft. Stewart, Georgia is the current designation. and of course if he was displeased by anyone they went back into the stream. I havent seen much info about people there when I was. I remember sleeping, when the shit hit the fan, then guys yelling incoming & I woke up, slept in my fatigues, threw boots on & grabbed my M-16, from the weapons rack & headed to the finance hooch!! The buses make their way along dirt roads at the base. But, your guard duty reference of 6 hours duty cycle matched my experience. Some one made the comment that Camp Alpha at Ton Son Knut was much better assignment, I agree, It sure was. But I have bunch including copter crash on Parade field and snake. Cant recall his name as Im trying to fill in some memoirs for the grandkids. I only recall a barren area with a couple of tents and barb wire. I now know it was apparently completely destroyed in Feb 68 TET. I arrived at the 90th July 31 1968. Cotter, Lamoreaux, Thurmond, Holland, Lewis, Pierce, Schnug, Greenhall, Breymeyer, Kanable were there when I was!! SGT Dieter Schuster was the NCOIC. Someone who spent their tour at or near the 90th Bn had to take a picture or two, hopefully. I went back to the 19th and was the night keypunch supervisor. A helicopter landing area off to one side of the field where formations were held. Another thing you can do is contact the National Archives at St, Louis. Hey Elvis (Wright) Looking over some recent entries here, I came upon some of yours. ! I started buying the flags when I saw the sorry no good trashy Iranians burning our flag on Fox news recently.I love my flag and I love my Country and our new President.Tuesday night,I will be giving several Vietnam flags to our VVA Chapter in Fitzgerald.The sewing seeds of kindness will be presenting 10 of us with quilts of valor Tuesday night and Im so grateful to be getting mine. i recall a rumor at the time of the 67 event,in order to suffocate the fire and i think i saw it dropped, we bombed the fire ourselves or it would have gone on for every and i needed my sleep as we could hear the explosions, i actually had a new invention with me , that was a cassette recorded and i erased the music i brought from home and recorded several hours of pops.keep the memories coming. Thanks for taking the time to provide this detail. Where do you live? Processing and Assignment in Long BinhThey had you coming and going!, Entrance to the 90th Replacement Battalion in Long Binh, 24 June 1971.Photo by Sp5 Logan L. McMinn, DASPO. No Ken I was transferred out of the AGs office at Bearcat to Camp Alpha at Tan Son Nhut. I had them stay in the sandbag guard area in case more people tried to get through while I chased the guy down. I dont remember that, but I do recall a shipment of beer (Rainier, I believe) that went flat in transit and was free for the taking. I left 90th (long binh junction on 12/1/67) , spo we should have over lapped. back to waiting for new comments from passerbys. (THAT WAS A BIGGIE). I do remember some of the people in finance, or maby where they changed the money from greenbacks to MPC since there names fit there MOS one was named Penny the other Cash. The Icing on the cake was when I came back he spotted me, greeted me like a long lost wealthy relative and offered to let me take his jeep to the 90th and he would send someone to get it the next day. The only difference is, when my assignment came, it was to the 90th Replacement itself, but not at Long Binh. Wisconsin. BTW, I think weve established that Elvis Wright was my replacement. At time of departure, I prayed silently, that nothing untoward would happen to prevent us from boarding the out of country jet. In what became known as the Battle of Dai Do, the North Vietnamese clashed savagely with U.S. Marine, Army, and ARVN forces before withdrawing. Spent my year with army transportation unit on the Saigon river. I think the film company is Florentine FILMS. When I got sent back to the World, I was assigned to the morgue at Ft Lee VA. We had unarmed artillery shells landing in our compound, roughly 3/4 of a mile south of 3rd Ord. If anyone was their please send me an email thank you. Hard to imagine. He was probably late 40s, early 50s, silver hair!! Something drastically bad had happened to it be between the cow and our lips.
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