1961 to 1966 US Navy USS Forrestal CVA-59 flight deck V-2 division. ThumbUp
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Crew Chief, 1st Special Operations Squadron; 56 Special Operations Wing; Det 1; Danang 1971/1972...
Ops Officer; Joint Task Force - Full Accounting; Hanoi SRV 1994.
Glad you made it back to the World. :wave4:
Interesting and somewhat accurate observation Ken! I know I felt pretty much on my own and an outsider to say the least myself...
Welcome home brother!!
USMC 0331 M-60 machine gunner 1970-1976
Trained through boot Paris Island South Carolina ITR camp Geiger Camp LeJune Basic specialist training Camp Geiger Camp Pendleton over seas combat Training Straight to get on the bus to go to Norton air force to fly to Okinawa to country, Two brothers in Nam one in Marines as scout and one in the airforce working crash and recovery I was called off the plane that morning and TAD to Eltoro Calif Nobody ever told me why, I was Blue tagged to Eltoro Does anybody know what Blue tagged stood for duirng Vietnam I guess it just was not my time Thanks to all that went and served
God Bless
My oldest brother had already returned from Nam in 69 I was suppose to go in 1971Perhaps it was because you had Two siblings in-country at the time...
I think that rule go's back to the Sullivan Brothers ..
I was a tailender and was evac'd out via Thailand April '75. Army...still think about it on long, Sleepless nights.
I was there from July '69 to Jun '70 US Army with the 101st Airborne stationed at Camp Eagle between Hue and Phu Bai. I was lucky, a Radar O'Riley type of sorts. Things were different then, we weren't looked at as heros but rather the scum of the earth when we got home. I'll never forget after I got home to Buffalo NY I flew down to Philadelphia to be with my Fiance and thought she would like to see me in uniform, so I did just that. When she saw me her look spoke volumes! She tried to recover and asked me why I was in uniform when I was discharged, and asked me If I wanted to change. I don't think she even kissed me right away, and it was obvious she was ashamed to be with me.
It has taken me up to just a couple of years ago to come to grips with all of it, and sure don't feel like any kind of hero. Better men than I didn't get to come home.
As of this year I am now a lifetime member of the VFW and a member of the American Legion as well, but am not active with either. To me it's just a cheap place to get drunk, but hopefully as I do get involved that outlook will change.
I am currently 60% disabled thanks to exposure to agent orange and type 2 diabeties and am trying to be declared 100% as I was sort of forced to retire last fall because of the increased discomfort of periferal neuropathy in both feet and hands.
So that's my story and I'm sticking to it! What's yours???
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