So every week there would be a different doctor. Besides the concrete hospital was a large concrete and stone ward building which had not even been started in early June. good times in the "duty jeep". Thursday morning we stripped the forms and started building the framing of the first building. My head carpenter ,Pham Ba told me about her during the week. person who was awake had access to the keys to the jeep. So after the 2400 check in I would jump in the truck with M-16 and ammo. There was always something interesting to watch at Camp Books. This is the near miss at our Post office. distributed to ships coming in. The building site was about 150 yards outside of the north perimeter and the perimeter had not been opened up yet. For African Americans soldiers serving in the armed forces during the Vietnam War the domestic scene loomed large. Seabees, initially using materials pre-stocked before the war in Advanced Base Functional Component packages, constructed three deep-draft piers for oceangoing ships, two 300 feet (91m) wooden piers an LST causeway and the Bridge Cargo Complex that consisted of a 1,600 feet (490m) long wharf, 300,000 cubic feet of refrigerated storage space and 500,000 square feet of covered storage space. what it is like now. Do the job, get it done right and then sign off the work order and move on to the next one. maintenance, and generally taking Next thing I realize he has a hold on my sleeve. We were working with basic hand tools, cutting everything with one cross cut handsaw. Amphibious fuel lines were laid along the sea floor to storage tanks ashore at Red Beach Base Area, north of the city and the Marines' Marble Mountain Air Facility to the south. The Seabee team had 8 junior men in one hootch and 4 senior men in the second hootch. One night I stood a four hour office watch and another night I was on a four hour barracks fire watch. 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. I have 'issues' from that crap hole as well.I don't want to put my email address in here publicly so how can I get in touch with you?Ernie Hodge, is this the Ernie hodge that was with the fuel crew in 1966-1967. my name is larry Kirby and my twin brother is gary Kirby if this is the same Earnie Hoge please email me at lwk472000@yahoo.vom. The VC had taken their 782 gear (combat gear, weapons and ammo) and bugged out. The villagers brought each one of us Seabees a Tiger Beer before we left for Camp Books. say I rarely ventured onto the left Well sure I heard about it and even saw them down at 1st MPs. The ESSO fuel plant from the north east side where we were snorkeling. In other words, if you could drive a Corvair fast and survive you The Marines on the perimeter were yelling at them to run parallel to the wire. really an enclosure. march in columns of two over to that building. Before we destroyed their lives they all had jobs and skills that worked in their culture! The Navy Doc was probably in his mid 30s and it was obvious to me that he had done this type of work before. There were so many sound at night and for my own safety I had to learn them all. It was really to late to save the helicopter but at least nobody was killed or hurt! Mountain. Marine guns up to the DMZ, we looked like shoe boxes eith long gun I do remember very clearly the event that happened that totally burned me out on working there. And The nurse laid across the farmers upper thighs to hold him in place. I was at Camp Tien Sha from June '69 until Feb '70. [2] camp tien sha danang, vietnam 1968 In 1968, I was about to be drafted into the Army and did not want to go to Viet Nam. Finally, the harsh northeast monsoon made cargo operations at Danang and throughout I Corps hazardous and difficult during the winter months.[1]. even included a week in Coronado, a week at Pendleton (weapons I had orders in September 1966 to go to I surveyed My day was done!! The solution that I found was just to build big rectangle frames (20 feet by 40 feet) sitting on top the ground . Sunday late afternoons we were able to get over to the Red Beach causeway and get in some water sessions. VVA's goals . Lance Corporal James D Feucht (cause of death,misadventure). I thought they were trying to lighten their load. I had my broken leg cot and was living out of my sea bag. Report an offensive or inappropriate entry. 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. It had 4 windows so I went to the window for H. I handed the clerk my records pack. Barrels of asphalt damaged by rocket attack, April 1969, Camp Tien Sha Annex, Ray Norton. 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 was standing in front of the hut assessing the job. the bus to Camp Tien Sha (the one with chicken wiure on the windows) Work started at 0700 hr and we got off at 1700 hr. Whatever, I was very African Americans perceived racial issuesrace relations, prejudice, and discriminationin Vietnam through a lens heavily influenced by their earlier experiences in the United States. Donations for May. Yes, we would help them build new huts and we would patch up their children and pay compensation for the damages done. - (07-07-02) I have NO remberance of This exhibit is now closed. Select the period (starting by the reporting year): precomm - 1967 | 1968 | 1969 - now Register and add yourself to the Crew List of the Naval Support Activity Danang. Didn't get any meals so after we were finished we ate sandwiches with the mid watch Marines at the mess hall. The "enlisted head" was pretty bare. Significant Events 19-31 August 1970 19-28 October 1970 5 November 1970 13 November 1970 15 November 1970 The Marine on the left was blond and looked like a California surfer.He to had been shot in the back of the head. The poor farmer had stepped on a mine. The carpenter flat bed truck. I was called to active durty in July Even now-days I hate phones,radios, air conditioning and coffee ! [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. I was not in the bush and am grateful that I wasn't. 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. little early to get back in school and finish my degree. We set the radio on squelch so it would make a lot of noise and wake us up. BBC News, Da Nang, Vietnam Da Nang is one of Vietnam's major ports, a city rich in history. This is our new Chief Builder. His name was Coate and he was a 3rd class yeoman. The events highlighted in yellow directly affected me. Read their name tag,don't look at their face, it was a hell of a lot easier to pick up the pieces or load up a stretcher of some one you don't know than to deal with a friend ! Once at the PTF base the jeep One rocket struck this barracks, but the man in this room survived by . Also we took care of damage at Camp Reasoner and the small CAP out posts. James L Chambers (cause of death,misadventure). [4]:8. Fishing Boats of Da Nang in The crew truck got there about 1745 hr or so and the doc was still busy. Fay, although it must have happened. The guys loaded up my tool box and gave me an M-16 so I would be able to walk back to the base later. Seems like every time I was working there at least one or two little kids would go out of there dead! I suppose we had a good conversation but don't have a clue of what. the late 60's and early 70's. Stephen was a veteran of the United States Navy, serving state side and in Vietnam at Camp Tien Sha, Danang. If your lost and want ( the rules for Camp Books were that to be off base you had to have a weapon). Yes, everyone called him soccer ball head ! roof. . changes to : There were other things to screw up the nights. A smell I have never smelled again in my life time. 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. It was just after 1700 so I was good. The Doc trimmed all the skin and muscle nice and neat adding clamps (hemostats) as he went. The feet just kind of hanging by muscle and skin. Every month she would send a large box of candy, cookies and other goodies. It was good for our working relation ship to do them favors so that I could count on them to perform for me when I really needed them. ---- I spent the rest of the day until after dark alone in the shop building a foot locker. from two times. This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Naval History and Heritage Command. After showing him my NAUI Scuba certification card I was able to make arrangement to keep all the Scuba gear at our shop so I could use it any time that I wanted. This was a Sunday afternoon BBQ about 1800 hr. I think Drive out the back gate and about 2 miles to the Navy Seabee base. Go through their front gate then out their back gate to the causeway. [1][3]:2, In August 1967, the headquarters of NSA Danang was moved from downtown Danang to Camp Tien Sha. It is just to heart breaking to see the suffering of the children in this world who are caught in a war! ever getting my hair cut at Camp My body was always waiting to react. Looking back, have This was the closest skivvy house to Camp Books , a very short walk. ( very much reminds me of cutting up chickens at butchering time). Her husband was an ARVN soldier who had been killed. ! 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 ! The Doc started by cutting the legs off. of any of that. Charles R. Smith . Chief then showed me the mess hall and walked me down to the Seabee hooch's. As soon as they caught on they would take on that task and I would move on to the next. 15x12. ( Short timers uniforms were your oldest most faded fatigues but always clean and well kept.) The wounded man was the Mess Sargent who was the only one at the mess hall at the time. Maybe 6 on a side. Then a voice came from inside the Quonset hut." and their 155 and 175 guns. This is a 122mm rocket crater in the road in front of our shop. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! We had no black out lights on our trucks so we would have been any easy target for anyone who decided that they were going to kill us! 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 couple of Corvairs (ok, stop laughing!) There were Seabees, Korean Philco Ford, Vietnamese all working like mad . She would throw dirt into the air and scratch at her face until it was bleeding , rubbing dirt into the cuts. I took my time cooling myself off in that shower then went I started building my hooch on Wednesday May 8th at just before noon. with Calif. I am sure this little girl will be my last thought when I punch out from this world. Detachment Dong Ha - 1967 - 1970. There was the real possibility of hitting a mine or being ambushed by the VC (it happened more often then I would like to think about) . It wasn't a normally as soon as they were installed. Why are you here in Vietnam ? The only answer I could give them that they would except was. about culture clash!) My station when [6], In April 1972 all US Navy facilities in Danang were transferred to the Republic of Vietnam Navy.[1]. Camp Haskins, Da Nang, Vietnam, served as headquarters of the 30th Naval Construction Regiment, who exercised operational control of Seabee units deployed to Vietnam. the correctly identified enlisted building. The PTFs, under Vietnamese officers and crews, conducted over 1,000 raids against North Vietnam from March-April 1964 to January 1972. context of what was happening. boats took place at the other base. Camp Tien Sha Vietnam 1968 from Monkey Mountain nstar48 Media item Jan 30, 2008 camp tien sha monkey mountain united states navy seabees vietnam war year 1968 Comments: 2 Category: Images of Vietnam China Beach from Monkey Mountain 1968 China Beach and Marble Mountain from Monkey Mountain Vietnam 1968 nstar48 Media item Jan 30, 2008 at Camp Fay. She smelled horrible! Ch Linh Camp. In March 1965 when United States Marine Corps combat troops landed at Danang, the support establishment was rudimentary. Book description. bgmarshall@aol.com. What that means is we stood a four hour night watch every other night. On the night of February 23, 1969, we held off an attack on the Da Nang Air Base by a large VC force. 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. YFU-54 (Car 54 where are you). this pic is. The fleet also managed logistic operations at these locations. The doc had no idea but it was a sure thing she was going to die. I jumped into the fighting hole beside the post and yelled at the Marines there "holy shit some one is shooting at me!" identified as "enlisted head" in It started raining Saturday June1st and rained continuously until Wednesday morning but that didn't slow down work any. I have spent countless hours over the past 15 years driving my motorbike around the Camp Books area looking for any of our workers. Well I had 11 months to go and it was going to be a very long 11 months ! Download this Camp Tien Sha photo now. I was never in harms way. After that LT Branch never stayed late at the office, he would leave at 1700 to take Miss Nguyen home to Da Nang.
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