Where were you 50 years ago today?

[gatorb8]

driving my first “rv”
3 wheeled westcoaster mailcart
shag carpet, curtains, 8 track stereo, surf rack
miss those days.....

[lrsses]

Gee, 50 years ago Vietnam USAF just across from LBJ.

[Nrbsr]

101'st Airborn
Camp Eagle
50 years ago today

I'm in a commo bunker about 50 meters inside the wire. Except for the infantry on the perimeter, Camp Eagle has been abandoned while we wait for the ARVN'S to take over. A bit before dusk a call comes in from a patrol about 4 or 5 klicks outside the wire, first reports are 2 wounded and 2 missing and they're looking for chopper support. A call goes down to Phu Bai and they come back and say Cobras will be on the way ASAP. Then we learn that choppers can only be released from Phu Bai with col. So&so's explicit permission. Unfortunately no-one knows where col. So&So is. For the next 1/2 hour communications go back & forth while they search one officers club after another and other locations searching for col. So&So. Eventually the radio goes silent and whether col. So&So is ever located remains unknown on our end.

About an hour later the infantry guys open up about 300-400 meters north along the perimeter. We're assuming they're bringing the patrol in through the wire and shortly thereafter the report comes in that the patrol is in and everyone is accounted for.
Two hours later we hear the chopper blades and we go outside the bunker and watch as two Cobras pound a presumably now empty jungle off in the distance.
Now I may not be the brightest bulb in the room, but one thing I do know is This Ain't How You Win a War.

Three weeks later, it's 6:00 AM and I'm picking up cigarette butts on the parade field at Ft Lewis, Washington. I'm OK with that. I'm not looking for a parade and I'm following the same footsteps of thousands of guys before me. Besides, tomorrow, with papers in my hand, I'll be hopping a plane and headed home.

[LewBob]

Just married and recently out of the AF after 4 years, primarily on a missile crew in SD, returning to college before starting a career in small-town newspaper journalism.

[TandW]

Drydock. Long Beach Naval Shipyard. Main project Naval Distillate Fuel conversion.

[Mariol]

I was probably sitting in the back of my parents VW Fastback with poop in my diapers and not in a car seat.

[bigb56]

Wishing I was old enough to drive my Mom's 1969 Rambler American....well, legally.

[HarryStone]

11th grade, Eisenhower High School, Rialto California.

[Fast E]

Regimental Guard, 3rd FSR Camp Foster, Okinawa.

[rgvtexan]

Celebrating my 4 month wedding anniversary.

[Indy Glenn]

Originally Posted by Nrbsr

101'st Airborn
Camp Eagle
50 years ago today

Three weeks later, it's 6:00 AM and I'm picking up cigarette butts on the parade field at Ft Lewis, Washington. I'm OK with that. I'm not looking for a parade and I'm following the same footsteps of thousands of guys before me. Besides, tomorrow, with papers in my hand, I'll be hopping a plane and headed home.

Welcome home Brother.....

There were many COL So&So & SGM & CSM So&So...... I became a lifer after being drafted - I did my best not to be a So&So or SOB.....

Take care,

g

[Cibelo]

USNTC
Kenitra Morocco

[flywithcoop]

Ubon Royal Thai Air Force Base. Home of the Wolfpack. F4D Weapons Control System Technician. 12-hour shift, 4 on 1 off work schedule. 9 months into i year assignment. Ended up extending for another year and then extending again until August '73 when we stopped missions into Laos and Cambodia. We had stopped mission into VN in Jan '73.
Ended up serving 22 years 22 days.

[Cat320]

Been back in the US four months after my second VN tour flying a Chinook for a year. New duty station is Fort Sill, OK, the artillery center...lots of familiar sounds!