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cavman 69
christmas 1969. where were you? i was at bear cat,rvn. got half the day off. now, that was a christmas present i'll never forget.
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  • MMOMEQ-55
    quote:Originally posted by cavman 69
    christmas 1969. where were you? i was at bear cat,rvn. got half the day off. now, that was a christmas present i'll never forget.



    Still in HS trying to get into the Pait twins pants.[:D]
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  • elubsme
    I was discharged April 08, 1968. My new wife and I flew back to Pa. to visit my parents for the Christmas of '69. Jeanne, Jake and I went tobogganing. I broke my leg [:0] Bummer. Ed
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  • CapnMidnight
    Home, I got out Nov. 12 1969 so I was home haveing a good time.
    Christmas 68 I was at Black Hawk fire base.
    W.D.
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  • Ironrifle
    Home for the fist time in 3 years! `68 I was at FSB Concord near Long Binh..
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  • Old-Colts
    VT-29, NAS Corpus Christi; Vietnam was still a couple of years away for me.
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  • peabo
    Tuy Hoa VN
    Just South on QUI NHON


    Thanks---Peabo
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  • kimi
    Platoon Commander, Company "A", 1st Recruit Training Battalion, Recruit Training Regiment, MCRD, San Diego, California
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  • 70-101
    Christmas of 1969 I was still with the 2nd/36th Infantry 3AD out of Kirch Goens Germany, but not for long.
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  • nighttrainrider
    Spent Xmas 69 in Okinawa, my unit charlie co 9th motors 3rd Mar-Div left Dong Ha & Quang-Tri nov 22nd. Welcome Home!
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  • Smoky14
    Flying along on what was an unusually quiet day for VN when a bored grunt transmitted "This is God on guard wishing my son a happy birthday, God out.
    I guess GI's and God have a sense of humor.

    Smoky. That day it was Scatback
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  • SP4B
    quote:Originally posted by CapnMidnight
    Home, I got out Nov. 12 1969 so I was home haveing a good time.
    Christmas 68 I was at Black Hawk fire base.
    W.D.

    Are you refering to B-Btry, 6/32 Arty, in 2 Corps.
    If so I was there at that time also.
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  • CapnMidnight
    No, I was with the 2/1 Armoured Cav, you guys where on the same fire base. You where our artillery support. Thank you man, you guys did a hell of a job.
    W.D.
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  • SP4B
    Like Wise for you guys. My personal favorite to bring on a raid was a Duster over a Quad 50. Nothing like 40mm H.E. then 8" Beehive round to clear the wire. I was Generator Mechanic but always volunteered for guard duty to go on raids and help out the gun crews.
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  • oldbuckaroo
    As I recall, Christmas '69 was pretty hot and humid in IIICTZ, in the shadows of Nui Ba Dinh, Tay Ninh province, with a detachment of the 175th USASA Operations Company, 303rd Bn, 509th Gp, IIFFV. We "celebrated" with lukewarm Carling Black Label in rusty cans.[:D]
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  • Smoky14
    "Black Mabel", ah the rusty cans were a norm. #2 cross point through the side and a "beer infusion".

    Don't you miss it...not
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  • cavman 69
    all we had was hamm's. did't you just love the taste of that beer after it sat in the sun for a couple months before we got it?
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  • kimi
    quote:Originally posted by Edgarl1966
    I was Guard at Portsmouth Navel Prison...


    I had a good buddy stationed there by the name of William Brace Henderson. I think he would have been a Sergeant or above, but he might have left for DI School before you reported aboard.
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  • Dave Fisher15
    Watching Bob Hope in Long Binh.69, in 70 at Bear Cat watching the Thai's shoot up the preminter.
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  • flapjack
    Christmas eve 1969, I was sitting on top of a bunker drinking beer. We were on a heitened alert status-yellow I think, and the old man was walking the green line wishing everyone a Merry Christmas. I heard him go through down below-I wasn't officially there-so I yelled down at him as he came out, "Merry Christmas, Sir," and he yells, "who's that up there?" so I told him, and he asked what I was doing up there, and I told him I was getting drunk, and he yelled back, "carry on..." Just one of those times that stands out in my memory. Flapjack
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  • woodshermit
    Getting drunk in Saigon.
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  • mechwarrant
    Left country 23 Dec 69; made it home late the 24th; still wrapping my head around it all these years.
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  • gatsx
    Was one of the lucky to get to go see the Bob Hope show in Phu Bia.(I believe) Will never forget the tears flow from so many when Connie Stevens sang silent night. Got back to fire base before night fall. maned a bunker and returned to the real world.
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  • ss409cid
    Christmas 69 Camp Enari. ETS 30 days later....
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