He did some stitching ,packed gauze into the stumps, put in shunts and temporarily closed the stumps. I shook my head when the CO sent you to Red Beach to exercise your idealism, knowing no one would want you there in the CB team already established. History is not a fixed set of facts. It is also one of the top international surfing destinations. With tears in my eyes I told the guard that I had been helping the doc at the children's clinic and he could take his fucking travel chit and shove it up his ass! Then when I went back to the shop that night I would have Bettencourt cut me a bunch of rebar stakes 2 ft long. side was a area called Bridge Ramp which was where the Navy LSTs would pull in Detachment Phu Bai - 1965 -1970. Because I was just getting situated it was just mass confusion for me . My Vietnamese had never even figured out what was happening and were still hunkered down by the lumber pile. She would be down on her hands and knees crying and waling. Battalion was deployed to Danang, Vietnam from January, 1968 through September, 1968 and again from March, 1969 through November, 1969. I am sure had I not done that , the Chief, when he came down to the hootch, would have solved the problem by sending me back to China Beach. There were 6 area work centers in the Da Nang AO . It was where the French first landed in the 19th Century in their quest to control the area and where . It seems incredible that a thirsty, decorated . One night I stood a four hour office watch and another night I was on a four hour barracks fire watch. It's claim to fame was that it had a black prostitute. Camp Tien Sha Vietnam 1968. nstar48. This was a Sunday afternoon BBQ about 1800 hr. Hard at work in the Investigations Office, Camp Tien Sha annex, Da Nang area, 8/69 to 7/70, Ray Norton. LCU-63 * MI by the time they got to us AWC# 5 we would be awake (hopefully) and report in. Very close now and it was clear that they weren't going to make it over the hurricane fence at the perimeter. This is the Hoa Kahn clinic at the time I started working there. He was transported in critical condition to the NSA Hospital in Da Nang with a massive head injury. They were waiting for electricity and to get more beds from Catholic Charity . Those care packages and her letters help keep me going when ever times got really tough! Our mess hall, about 70 yards from my hootch took a direct hit on the serving line and kitchen area. One rocket struck this barracks, but the man in this room survived by . The carpenter flat bed truck. If one of the other bases in our AO got hit by mortars or rockets then our siren went off and we were on red alert which meant we had to role out with weapons, helmets,and flack jackets and man our posts. Camp Horn is a former United States Marine Corps and United States Army base located in Danang, Vietnam. The wounded man was the Mess Sargent who was the only one at the mess hall at the time. It was a Saturday, perhaps we were finishing up the cook shed. It had been a very busy month with a lot of things happening. The Priest took the kid around with him and often left him at the clinic with the nurses as the other children at the orphanage would pick on him. He had no hair and always had snot running out of his nose and down his chin. didnt get shot at and we safely landed and taxied off the run way. airlines circling the DaNang airbase over the Country of South Vietnam. went by (so slowly! Photo libre de droit de Camp Tien Sha banque d'images et plus d'images libres de droit de Vietnam - Vietnam, Base militaire, 1968. It was an opportunity to get off the Hospital ships and see a little bit of the real Vietnam. Apart from some shopping highlights and historical sights, the main reason for most travelers staying here is its proximity to the well-known My Khe Beach, Lang Co Beach, Hoi An and My Son. I couldn't grasp what was going on at the time. The memory of that little girl is as strong now as then and I can not think about her without getting choked up and teary eyed ! Familiar Places. there was a war going on. By 1969 I was and RM3 in the White Elephant (an old French Fort in downtown Da Nang) where the commanding Admiral was located. They were trying to fly that chopper to the safety of Camp Books. When I got on the bus to Camp Tien Sha (the one with chicken wiure on the windows) I knew I wasn't in Kansas. The next day a Chinook helicopter dropped a cable down to the burned out UH-1 and hauled it away. I am sure this little girl will be my last thought when I punch out from this world. Well whenever I was working in that area I would sneak in the tent and find some dirty uniforms,still in good shape and steal them, put them in my crew tool box and take them back to my hooch and hand wash them ! It was kind of a taste of what we would get when the monsoons came in September. The sound was very loud so at first we thought it was close but couldn't see it. The memory of this little girl and the events at the Children's hospital are the reason I never had children of my own. Then walk the length of pier re-installing any buffer pads that might have come out. In mid-October 1968 the Deep Water Pier complex (16.12N 108.214E) on the Tien Sha peninsula was completed, beginning operations in September 1968. nstar48; Media item; Jan 30, 2008; korean engineers maintenance control division vietnam war year 1968; . This is the inside of our shop.The office was upstairs and to the left. Well I had 11 months to go and it was going to be a very long 11 months ! Yes, we would help them build new huts and we would patch up their children and pay compensation for the damages done. I can find no official reports on that rocket attack and have to assume nobody bothered to make a report because the rounds hit in the swamp between the main body of Camp Books and the Force Logistics Command section. the headquarters of NSA Danang was moved from downtown Danang to Camp Tien Sha. Historian, US Navy Seabee Museum. The doctor and nurse came out of the clinic. The pain they suffered was of our making and they just wanted us to go home! Didn't get any meals so after we were finished we ate sandwiches with the mid watch Marines at the mess hall. They had to be manned 24 hours a day. These places had many different names, abbreviations, acronyms, terms, and phrases.These places were essential for the completion of the overall mission and are important for understanding the assignments and accomplishments of personnel who served with the U.S. I had to make a quick exit when the patients got excited when I walked towards the main ward! $10 of that came from me. On the far end of the bridge right Modern. Danang, VN _ _ DS CS: 1964: Feb 1973: Detachment Bravo, FLTSUPDET, Navcomsta, PI. What we finally did was a one man 12 hour watch. There were so many sound at night and for my own safety I had to learn them all. A smell I have never smelled again in my life time. It was a horrifying thing to watch. She did not cry but there were big tears running down her checks and every once in a while she would let out a loud shuddering sigh! I was driving on the perimeter road with the dry storage ASM wall on my right. This was a real live human! Donald is buried at Holy Trinity Church Cemetery, Hopelawn, NJ. "Honcho come", he pulls me around the Quonset hut, his eyes were as big as saucers! So my hooch would now have 5 of us. "Sorry that's all we have!" Paperback. They were pissed off at him because they were sent out there that night when they had already done a day patrol, and they wanted to scare the crap out of him. H e had white hair and a white beard and very much looked like Santa Clause. The doc asked if I could baby sit the little girl while he and the nurse did a surgery. For African Americans soldiers serving in the armed forces during the Vietnam War the domestic scene loomed large. The two guys shot in the skivvy house that night were, Pvt. RICHARD river ROBERT sailors School served Services ships SKSN SMITH Special staff Station Hospital submarine supply Support THOMAS units Vietnam . Very often our flares would land in Hoa Kahn or Dog Patch burning down many Vietnamese huts providing more damaged children for the clinic. Work started at 0700 hr and we got off at 1700 hr. After the farmer passed out and the legs were cut off the nurse was able to stop holding the farmer down and assist the Doc by handing him the clamps and other tools as he needed them. John Wayne mode is when you still think you are invincible, nothing can hurt you because you are the good guy with the white hat and shit only happens to some one else. The 53rd had five (5) CO's from 1942 through 1946. . "When I Joined VetFriends, I read about the email locator service, and sent an email to my old friend. Spent many watches all over the city of Da Nang. Camp Tien Sha is a former United States Navy base located in Danang, Vietnam. Later after they landed it became obvious that they were throwing out the ammo boxes so they wouldn't explode when they landed. I was 19 but not a drinker. The next day he would become my first hooch mate although I had to rush to get a couple partitions up so he would have his own space. It is long gone. What the F is wrong with her? They were only a couple hundred yards away! Everyone had his turf marked out and nobody was willing to give any for me. There was no time off just the same 12 hr work shift. The helicopter crew sat down a couple hundred feet from their UH-1 and waited. Naval Support Activity Danang or NSA Danang was a United States Navy logistics support organization located in Danang, South Vietnam active from October 1965 to April 1972. . I didn't realize at the time that the intended target was me and the generators. Let me tell you that wasn't fun at all. The little girl was fusing and didn't want to leave the nurse so it took a little effort to hand her off to me . Our office was up stairs. James L Chambers (cause of death,misadventure). Unfortunately when we got there it was closed for one hour for lunch and Coate did not have the time to hang around. We also had a couple of American Philco Ford teachers. Relations outside of combat were typified by racial tension and violence. The Marine on the left was blond and looked like a California surfer.He to had been shot in the back of the head. I'm at camp Tien Sha at Da Nang now . The other important thing we had to do was to check the Red Beach causeway at 2400 hr. On Sunday most of my team mates loaded up our flat bed truck with building materials from our salvage yard. Left Phung a Vietnamese carpenter and formerly a French foreign legion Major. So what did I do for work uniforms ? I am not sure what possessed me to write poems there. Barbee was very well liked by the labor crew. If it had detonated when it hit the ventilator we both would have been killed! Save. Closer and closer, the engine starting to whine! Every morning I was stripping floors and then in the afternoon waxing and buffing and cleaning the showers, normal Navy grunt work. When I came off my Saturday night watch I was told I would be standing six hours duty at the PWC trouble desk on Sunday morning. Donations for May. Relive & share the memories of your service time with your brothers & sisters in arms today. I don't remember when I stopped doing work at the Children's clinic, Maybe the end of June or early July. Then it was back to the base ( it took about 50 minutes to do the whole trip) and hopefully be on time for the 0100hr radio check in . that's one of our generators upper left. It was about the most insane thing I had ever experienced and was hard for my mind to grasp what had just happened. Da Nang East. ), and on the day, before I was to leave, I hitched a ride headed to Camp Tien Sha on the east side of Da Nang where I was to be processed out. Later I built a wash building and cook shack just about where these cots and the officers are standing. I was going to start building my own hooch so I would have a place to sleep ! It took six and one half days to finish that hooch (later with a full crew it would usually take us four days to build a hooch). uniform. T is a history of NSA in Vietnam, which by 1969 was the Navy's largest overseas command with the largest public works department in the world. The argument got pretty heated. The flares were often still burning when they hit the ground. Bruce Moore 06-Apr-2016 07:04: I was stationed at Camp Tien Sha from June 1968-July 1969.,I was a BU3 attached to the US Naval Support Activities Danang.I lived in barracks #35 which was on the backside of Camp Tien Sha.I was in barracks #35 when the Rocket and mortar attack began.we had a material storage yard directly behind the barracks that was hit with incoming rounds.I also, as a . We set the radio on squelch so it would make a lot of noise and wake us up. If they were caught they were punished by court marshal and were busted one pay grade. Here is an E mail I got from Karl explaining his arrival to Vietnam and Camp Books (FLC) The last week of May brought us a knew Chief Builder and our old Chief Botswains mate left us. I thought the clinic was for children. From 1800 hours until 0600 we had to have some one stand watch. The Doc first put surgical tourniquets on and took the belts off. just out of the picture on the right. Welcome to Viet----fuckn Nam you FNGs ( funking new guys) !!! Uss garrett county ( lst-786 ) uss garrett county ( lst-786 ) uss garrett (. Had tied their hands behind their backs and executed them. If there were any trouble calls from the Marines (usually lights out on the perimeter or something not working at the mess hall) then it was jump in the truck drive out and check and drive over to our hooch and get who ever was needed to go fix the problem. On May 21,1968 at 2400 hr. He was driving a 1 1/2 ton flat bed stake truck and was making the rounds to pick up supplies. It took until 2000 hours to finish that first slab. It even included a week in Coronado, a week at Pendleton (weapons training), ands a week at Whidby Island (E&E, and SERE. Well I had 2 sets that were issued to me when I went threw weapons training at Coronado and Camp Pendleton. She would throw dirt into the air and scratch at her face until it was bleeding , rubbing dirt into the cuts. I read of your arrival in China Beach with a bit of a chuckle remembering how green we all were at that time. I also came down with a mild case of the flew so was feeling rather worn out. Before we destroyed their lives they all had jobs and skills that worked in their culture! I am a 20 year old US soldier and my country says I have to be here! It really, really broke my heart! Often the convoys would drop off kids from out in the bush. That sure screwed with our sleep! The Doc trimmed all the skin and muscle nice and neat adding clamps (hemostats) as he went. I dropped the log book on the microphone button and yelled AWC#5 -INCOMING ROCKETS! The Doc started by cutting the legs off. He told me step by step every detail. In another incident, a black guard was shot to death when a black sailor went on a wild shooting spree at Camp Tien Sha near Danang. Keep exploring. Re: Vietnam Nam vet wants to see war sites. It was Le logo iStock est une marque dpose de iStockphoto LP. Don't try to cross in to the base as there were mines. After a couple rocket and mortar attacks my brain never went completely to sleep. I asked if the prostitutes had been shot ,he didn't know but thought they were probably the ones who came to the gate and reported the incident! He didn't mince words. " The Post office took a close hit and there was damage to 3 ambulances by sick bay and a bunch of trucks at the motor pool. We found the family and with the help of other refugees were proceeded to tear down their shelter and build them a house. Short EM3 Camp Tien Sha Fire Department. For the time being they were stashed in my hooch and on May 24, Karl Voiles spent his first day assembling beds. Don enlisted in the US Navy and attained the rank of Builder Third Class (BU3) with MCB 53. The Post office was about 75 yards from my hootch. At the base of Monkey mountain was Camp Tien Sha, the main Navy base. Les nouveaux clients peuvent tlcharger cette image en profitant de notre offre dessai gratuit sans engagement. and I was just finishing up the door. Here are the Activity reports for May 1968 for the Marines in my AO (area of operation) . He's shooting from a long way out and hasn't hit anyone yet. I wish I would have known about it then! When Puppy was big enough our secretary, interpreter Miss Nguyen took Puppy home with her to Danang. Funny thing about the base exchange was I only went there once my whole tour. He was wearing his best short timers uniform. meal in Vietnam was roast beef, mashed potatoes and gravy, green peas, 2 large Whenever there were 122 rocket attacks there would be casualties and being as how I was a first responder and did the damage clean up and repair and being as how medivaced Marines did not need their uniforms any more I would just help myself to what ever would fit me. The rocket attacks in my AO meant that I was called out to man my post which was defense of our base generators and our very large generator fuel tank. 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