camp tien sha danang, vietnam 1968

We assumed everyone around us had the same idealistic desire to strive to do our best all the time. It was very clear that they did not want a FNG getting in their way. I thought they were trying to lighten their load. James L Chambers (cause of death,misadventure). One night I was in the office with LT Branch . Marine damage reports were never very accurate and it is hard for me to remember what was damage when. 1968: US Naval Support Activity DaNang: Publisher: U.S . On May 15 I had finished 6 or 8 escape doors. Camp Tien Sha Vietnam 1968. The building to the right of the Post office was the base exchange and it took a shit load of shrapnel from this hit. and I was just finishing up the door. By 1969 I was and RM3 in the White Elephant (an old French Fort in downtown Da Nang) where the commanding Admiral was located. there was a war going on. That's how we got our beds, enough for everyone. When we arrived at Red Beach the Seabee team shop was a mad house. I never really realized the high level of tension we lived under until I left Vietnam ! 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. For African Americans soldiers serving in the armed forces during the Vietnam War the domestic scene loomed large. I am sure this little girl will be my last thought when I punch out from this world. The events highlighted in yellow directly affected me. Although the rules were they had to go back and check out. They had decided to spend the night at the Skivvy house (whore house) in Dog Patch. The advantage was that I got a whole extra year of dive time at Hoods Canal with Pett and got to do deep water dives with him ( 120 to 140 feet) in the summer of 1966. Electrician CN (E-3) Pat Brown, Builder CN (E-3) Craig Taylor, Builder 3Rd Class Calabresi. There was a permanent concrete hospital being built close to my building and by the beginning of June 1968 had all the walls built up and was waiting for materials for roof trusses and the roof. The pain they suffered was of our making and they just wanted us to go home! She would be down on her hands and knees crying and waling. The carpenter flat bed truck. 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 . The main supply base for the Marines in I Corp was at Tien Sha near the coast in Da Nang. Finally I interrupted and said I would sleep in the Korean bunker on the broken cot that was in there, end of argument ! We destroyed what they had and were teaching them skills that didn't even fit into their culture. They were trying to fly that chopper to the safety of Camp Books. This is the Hoa Kahn clinic at the time I started working there. They had absolutely nothing and were dependent on the charity of other refuges in Dog Patch. In reality, it is a collection of ideas, images, and information that enough people have chosen to preserve and disseminate. Iowa. The next work order I got for there I gave it to Beerworth and told him I would not work there any more! She would throw dirt into the air and scratch at her face until it was bleeding , rubbing dirt into the cuts. On the far end of the bridge right She would pull out handfuls of her hair and pound herself with clenched fists! Long , long ago, far, far away on the other side of the I don't remember when I stopped doing work at the Children's clinic, Maybe the end of June or early July. When I found out about that I went with Bet to talk to that officer. 03/11/66 - Harvey L. Engel, QM1, Lincoln, NE. Then of course there was the dreaded incoming 122mm and 140mm incoming rocket. Short EM3 Camp Tien Sha Fire Department. I asked about the little girls gangrene and the doc told me that she would die in a week or so. Modern. It was a horrifying thing to watch. After the bones were cut the Doc tied off all the bleeders and removed the hemostats . . painting rocks. Donations for May. What the F is wrong with her? I yelled "incoming" and took off running to the nearest watch post which was 150 yards away. He lets fly with 8 or 10 rounds then he is done for the day. Some morning I would be more tired when I woke up than when I went to bed. He got the point and let me through the gate, no more questions asked. Book description. You will use the chain of command ,don't come to me. We took good care of Judy and she ate very well, We would get stake and chicken from the mess hall and She also loved to drink beer. Necessarily, more is lost to time than is remembered. Some part of it was always listening to what was going on . It was a real learning experience for the three of us. Then there were the incoming Rockets, we had three big generators and fuel tank and we were a bulls eye. There was only one hospital bed and a couple cots in the building at that time. BU3 Hovanec expired July 7, 1969 in Thua Thien, South Vietnam. Back at the hootch the Seabees got in a major debate about where to put me. This would also give Beerworth time to get his guys out on their job. The nurse was carrying a little girl about 4 years old. 6 years ago. The Docs loved coming to Hoa Kahn Clinic. We went through the gate, down Main Street, took a left and stopped in front of a small building that looked like a hamburger stand. We were here, In November 1965 500 men moved into the old French Army camp, Camp Tien Sha (Tin Sa) . side was a barge with a sign. Off we went to the supply yard at one of the SeaBee battalions, while we were there we stopped for a quick lunch at the Navy mess hall. Besides the concrete hospital was a large concrete and stone ward building which had not even been started in early June. African Americans perceived racial issuesrace relations, prejudice, and discriminationin Vietnam through a lens heavily influenced by their earlier experiences in the United States. Nobody bothered to help the new guy with the profoundly negative and dangerous war situation you found yourself in. I read of your arrival in China Beach with a bit of a chuckle remembering how green we all were at that time. Suddenly the helicopter went nose high and stopped going forward. The doc explained that she had been burned by napalm and had gotten gangrene and that was the smell. After that LT Branch never stayed late at the office, he would leave at 1700 to take Miss Nguyen home to Da Nang. Camp Tien Sha Vietnam 1968 from Monkey Mountain. As tired as I was I never got much sleep. Bruce Moore says he first returned from a 13-month stint in the Vietnam War to a "poor response." "We were at Norton Air Force Base. "Sorry that's all we have!" The sign on the mess hall door Drive out the back gate and about 2 miles to the Navy Seabee base. Late in the day we had built them a nice hootch and had them moved in. We found the family and with the help of other refugees were proceeded to tear down their shelter and build them a house. LCU-63 * MI Every morning I was stripping floors and then in the afternoon waxing and buffing and cleaning the showers, normal Navy grunt work. Great Discounts & More! The poor farmer had stepped on a mine. He was standing about 10 feet from me and the first round of a rocket attack went through the ventilator on top of our building ,exactly four feet above the LTs head and exploded in the ware house bay next to our shop. Then a voice came from inside the Quonset hut." Soon we arrived at our destination, Camp Tien Sha Vietnam, an old French encampment that had been converted by the Sea Bees into our base camp. We went downtown in Long Beach, and we got harassed a lot. Camp Tien Sha Vietnam 1968 from Monkey Mountain. She smelled horrible! Most of them would be dead by now as most of the men were in their mid forties then . While the Seabee's exploits in Vietnam would carry on the tradition set during the Second World War, their work in Southeast Asia actually . What we finally did was a one man 12 hour watch. Naval Communication Facility. November 3, 1968 camp tien sha danang, vietnam 1968 left December 22, 1969 worked at the Deep Water Piers, working,! and drop their bow ramps. There were 6 area work centers in the Da Nang AO . One night I stood a four hour office watch and another night I was on a four hour barracks fire watch. There were no more shots that day but there would be on the next two mornings. Suddenly dozens of tracer rounds started ricocheting off the wall about 20 feet in front of the truck! An electrician CN (E-3). It was kind of a taste of what we would get when the monsoons came in September. It sure seemed longer then a month, to me it was more like a few months! We also had a couple of American Philco Ford teachers. Between 1969 and 1971 hundreds, if not thousands, of incidents of racial violence occurred in and around American military bases The huge fuel tank was just being build on the left out of the picture. The doc asked if I could baby sit the little girl while he and the nurse did a surgery. The Doc first put surgical tourniquets on and took the belts off. On Friday May 17 I was sent out on another job. The pilots jumped out . A very nice book. We were supposed to protect our base generators and fuel tank from sappers. Naval Support Activities in the I Corps, the northern-most theatre of war in South Vietnam. It was to late to get him settled in because we were so incredibly busy with rocket attack damage. He was really short, only six more days and a wake up and he would be out of Vietnam, back to the world and his girl friend Judy. MCB . 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! My head carpenter ,Pham Ba told me about her during the week. May 27 was my birthday. Then after thinking about it I realized how wrong I was. The feet just kind of hanging by muscle and skin. I'm sorry my last letter to you was so abruptly ended, but I figured I'd best get it sent, otherwise you'd still be waiting. A sad day because we were no longer a Seabee Team ! It was kind of like the work orders I got. She was especially friendly with our hooch mama-son. I dreaded standing that watch but ever 5 and then 7 days I was going to get it! My Vietnamese works didn't want to hang around waiting for the truck to take them back to the shop. Coate gave me two sets of shorts and short sleeve shirts. Recent photo of Cheryl and me. I needed to know which of the sound meant danger! Barbee was very well liked by the labor crew. They had been covered with poncho liners but they had blown off. The poor farmer screamed like you could never imagine until he finally passed out. Well I had 11 months to go and it was going to be a very long 11 months ! One rocket struck this barracks, but the man in this room survived by . 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. It was an opportunity to get off the Hospital ships and see a little bit of the real Vietnam. Historian, US Navy Seabee Museum. paths and painted white and there were white picket fences around almost every 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. This is a 122mm rocket crater in the road in front of our shop. What has stuck in my mind all these years is how much that bullet hole in the blond guys head looked like the bullet hole in the back of the head of a very large possum that I had shot in the back of the head when I was about 16 years old. didnt get shot at and we safely landed and taxied off the run way. It was just after 1700 so I was good. went by (so slowly! Often the convoys would drop off kids from out in the bush. I had my broken leg cot and was living out of my sea bag. right , Huan one of my carpenters. 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. Level the frames and tie them to the stakes and I would have my concrete forms complete. En savoir plus sur les images libres de droits ou consulter la FAQ sur les photos. Her husband was an ARVN soldier who had been killed. I feel strongly about it and love learning more on this topic.generator hire & new generator sales, Mark, I served with the Naval Support Activity DaNang from Aug 1966 - Mar 1968. Coate was not there to know about Puppy. It was no problem during the day because either the XO or Chief were there or the secretary,interpreter (miss Nguyen). I cried to myself on the way back to the base. Port bow of the barracks craft shows no. They had to be manned 24 hours a day. It was common for the Marines to sneak off base at night for a couple hours in the Village. 89 helpful votes. Our office was up stairs. ALL work centers report in : AWC # 1 reports everything is quite ! It's claim to fame was that it had a black prostitute. I actually took the class in 1965 but at that time you had to be 18 years old to get a Scuba Certification. May 1. Barrels of asphalt damaged by rocket attack, April 1969 . It didn't take long to get out of bed when the first rocket struck nearby. The fire was caused by a Air or artillery white phosphorus flare ( WP). I hated that phone, radio, air conditioning and black coffee! Cest pourquoi tous les fichiers prsents sur iStock ne sont disponibles quen version libre de droits, y compris toutes les images et vidos, Les licences libres de droits reprsentent la meilleure option pour quiconque a besoin de faire un usage commercial de photos. The hardest things for them to figure out was the batter boards, how to measure and cut rafters and how to measure and cut gable end studs. You are a builder so Beerworth or Yost will be who you report too." I was not prepared and he totally over powered me! When we got there the doc wanted to show us around. The Sargent in charge told him we would have to get gear from NSA Danang because the Seabee team was turned over to NSA. There hours were 0800 to1700 so it was impossible for me to go. What ever it was we were done by shortly after 1600 hr. The next weekend I asked about the farmer ? (Actually, I rode in a truck.) We weren't expecting any new men and we don't have the time to train you. He had to re arrange his schedule to accommodate me. Well I don't know how much of an impression that left on me but these guys getting killed in the Skivvy house got my attention ! . I didn't know it then but that was my last good meal for a long time! I heard the truth the next day at the mess hall. Sleeping in that bunker was not good.It had 2 opening which allowed the mosquitoes to get in and eat the shit out of me. She was wearing light blue pajamas with little lambs printed on it. I was told to put it between the farmers teeth with the ends sticking out of the sides of his mouth and I was to gently but firmly hold on to the ends of the stick and hold his head down. 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. We set the radio on squelch so it would make a lot of noise and wake us up. Do the job, get it done right and then sign off the work order and move on to the next one. [3]:33, In mid-October 1968 the Deep Water Pier complex (160712N 1081250E / 16.12N 108.214E / 16.12; 108.214) on the Tien Sha peninsula was completed, beginning operations in September 1968. Now I know where Barbee is but where is Babyson? Book cover type. I held the door open for them. It was creepy doing that trip to the causeway. VVA's goals . Camp Tien Sha, Da Nang Camp Tieu Khu, Binh Duong Province Camp John R. Tine, Kien Phong Province Torello . When I got to the gate it was a little past curfew and the guard started to give me some shit and wanted my travel chit. I tried one other time a few months later but didn't have the appropriate paper work. He expired nine days later. Yes that's puppy and our new steel worker (Calhoun). The weekend after the amputation I went to build a small operating room and install a examination light. The shop door are between the 2 telephone poles. She wanted to send care packages and letters to me as part of a High School project. thought though was he was just putting on a show for us new guys. iwas in the 1097th med boat co. dongtam,vietnam 1968 towed 3rd 34th artery barges up down the canels moble riverine force 9th inf divion, caption wild was incharge It became the headquarters for all U.S. There are over 500 chapters that provide fellowship, volunteer opportunities and community service. Only 364 more days to go! Craig Tailor is on the left and on the right is Carl Rice who came on board about the same time as the new Chief. Then to Travis, Hawaii, Subic Bay (and shore patrol in Olongapo), then to Danang. I believe that on May 21 we had hits to the sick bay which was a big rebuild job. Seems like every time I was working there at least one or two little kids would go out of there dead! After a couple rocket and mortar attacks my brain never went completely to sleep. This is the inside of our shop.The office was upstairs and to the left. Soon we came to the bridge across the Han River. Inside of that trailer, face down were 2 dead Marines. So that's what I did, went back to work. Les nouveaux clients peuvent tlcharger cette image en profitant de notre offre dessai gratuit sans engagement. His name was Coate and he was a 3rd class yeoman. One of our guy went with Babyson to the local market and bought blankets, cooking supplies, sleeping mats and food. Then I started paying more attention. The rocket attacks after that the would be on target! Both of his legs had been pretty much blown off. 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 . When Puppy was big enough our secretary, interpreter Miss Nguyen took Puppy home with her to Danang. As time passed and I saw all of these kids sick and broken I realized that most of what this clinic was doing was trying to repair the damage done to these kids by the war itself. The camp was quickly expanded to include 25 new barracks able to accommodate an additional 1700 men, together with a . 2021/09/07 Cpl. I took all the materials that I thought I would need to build the cement forms for my strong backs. You FNGs get to the back of the Her top was not buttoned and she had a gauze bandage about the size of a tea plate on her chest up to her neck. I arrived in Da Nang in June 1968. My Vietnamese had never even figured out what was happening and were still hunkered down by the lumber pile. I do web work now and I want to help you fix your articles so people can read them easier.I'm not asking to get paid I just want to do something for you. I was a certified SCUBA diver. We started pouring concrete Wednesday June 5, 1968. My very first To save them from Communism was not the right answer because most of them did not feel that Communism was a threat ! There were so many sound at night and for my own safety I had to learn them all. My barracks was an old French barracks at Camp Tien Sha near Da Nang. I am a 20 year old US soldier and my country says I have to be here! building. $10 of that came from me. Then when I went back to the shop that night I would have Bettencourt cut me a bunch of rebar stakes 2 ft long. With chow finished I had the rest of The 53rd had five (5) CO's from 1942 through 1946. . Right at daybreak back in '69, I was sent on a dangerous mission in Danang. I have never found any but I still have hope. After I let them go I was sitting on my tool box waiting for the crew truck to come pick me up. In Feb 1973, evacuated Danang to San Miguel . And search more of iStock's library of royalty-free stock images that features Vietnam photos available for quick and easy download. That was the LTs first rocket attack and he didn't react fast enough. You FNGs get off the plane and fall in over there. 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. We had an air conditioner in the office and because I worked out side all day I was not used to air conditioning! It started raining Saturday June1st and rained continuously until Wednesday morning but that didn't slow down work any. Well I never did hear from Barbee. I couldn't grasp what was going on at the time. Some times she would get so drunk that she couldn't walk anymore, was really funny watch her four legs going in different directions! I am very grateful to Annette for the support she gave me while I was in Vietnam. Probable a pissed of old farmer getting off a couple round while drinking his morning coffee. So after the 2400 check in I would jump in the truck with M-16 and ammo. Funny thing about the base exchange was I only went there once my whole tour. I was in Danang less than a month when the Vietcong used rockets to attack the Danang Air Base for the first time in the war, on the morning of February 27. Another source for jungle fatigues was up at Camp Reasoner. Gotten gangrene and that was my last thought when I woke up than when I woke up than I... Thought they were trying to fly that chopper to the shop that night I stood a four hour watch! And to the causeway collection of ideas, images, and information that enough people have chosen to preserve disseminate. 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