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If you were alive then the loud sound you herd was our plan lifting off at Cam Ron Bay. My Dad was an Air Force Air Traffic Controller in Cam Rahn Bay from 6/69-6/70. He may have worked your flight out. Have seen lot's of pictures from the area around that base. Actually looked like a fairly nice place, relativley speaking of course.
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Thank you all for your service. I was blessed. My lottery number was too high to be drafted. lucky dog
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If you were alive then the loud sound you herd was our plan lifting off at Cam Ron Bay. My Dad was an Air Force Air Traffic Controller in Cam Rahn Bay from 6/69-6/70. He may have worked your flight out. Have seen lot's of pictures from the area around that base. Actually looked like a fairly nice place, relativley speaking of course. It still smelled like burning schit and diesel fuel....
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in the Corp. in 66 Nam 66 stayed till 70 got the million dollar wound in 70 went home to the round eyed women on the freedom bird. Spent 5 months in Balboa healing when was able to put on greens and I was there salad went to town. Yes to get a women seen a fine blond she walked up to me spit on me called me names So I asked her does this mean I am not going to get a BJ. Only if she knew what was going on in my mind.
It was hard to accept that we was not wanted at all period but most of us manned up made a life raised kids. Still have the nightmares and sweats the face of the first man I seen go down thru the scope still visits me the shocked look he got knowing he is not going home. I handle those tough times telling myself it was a job I signed up for and was paid to do works sometimes.
But was glad I made it home Things which we who haven’t been can scarcely imagine. My cousin was likewise in the Marines over there, and likewise used a scope in combat. He’s retired and closing in on being a great- grandfather now, but he told me he can still see the faces from back then.
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
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Thanks , glad you made it home .
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I vaguely remember my Freedom Bird flight home other than it was on Pan Am to Seatac and they bused us to Fort Lewis. I still remember how good that steak tasted after being in the CRB hospital just before I left. The only anti-war bullschit I recall was late the next day in O'Hare Airport having a drink with a fellow boonie rat that I met on the plane and some doofus walked up to us at the bar and said, How many did you kill?" my pard turned to him and said, " That depends". The moron said, " Depends on what?" He replied, "Depends on if you count pregnant gooks as 1 or two" Bozo was speechless and unassed the area. LOL! I realize now that referring to those ladies as gooks was very insensitive of us....
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Glad you came back and Thank You for serving.
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If you were alive then the loud sound you herd was our plan lifting off at Cam Ron Bay. Vietnam is the main reason LBJ is the second worst president in US history. He sent 500,000 men to fight and die in Vietnam while preventing them from even attempting to win. The only point of fighting in Vietnam was to make LBJ look tough. I was too young to be drafted. The draft ended the same year I turned 18.
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got the million dollar wound It was a bullet, wasn't it? That jumped up and bit ya? Was yours directly in the butt-ocks, too? Did you ever see a nickel of that money?
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If you were alive then the loud sound you herd was our plan lifting off at Cam Ron Bay. I'm glad you made it back. I was just putting on a uniform then.
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Curiosity Killed the Cat & The Prairie Dog
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Next March will be 50 yrs since we steamed out of the Gulf of Tonkin. Time flies
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Mustered out at Ft. Lewis, Washington on July 24, 1969. Went through Cam Ranh Bay both going and coming back. miles
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THANK YOU...GOD bless !!!
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Thank you for your service and welcome home!
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If you were alive then the loud sound you herd was our plan lifting off at Cam Ron Bay. Thank you for your service.
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Thanks for your service. AS I was an only son they would not give me a deferrment. Wanted to be a frogman later but the Navy recruiter didn't give me a chance in hell of going to training. He wanted electronics guys in '76. I said forget it. Didn't know they would be called SEALs. I had a math instructor who did beach surveys on Normandy before D Day. And had another friend who was a frogman/UDT but didn't relate where he had worked during WWII. They were some awesome guys. Didn't go around puffed up and no brag about what they did. I did pry small details from my math teacher, football coach, and mentor Ray Coldren. God Bless all the vets. I'm glad to speak other than Japanese, Russian, Chinese..... Be Well Rustyzipper.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. Winston Churchill.
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Thanks and God bless you sir.
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I’m glad you made it home. Thank you for your service and thank all of you for your service on this upcoming Independence Day.
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![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/QqJAMVJl.jpg) My high school friends Phil, Ronnie, and David in the Marines in Quang Tri, Vietnam, 1968. These guys were one year ahead of me. They joined the Marines in late 1967.
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