OK, Im new here, the rooky, In your time in the CBs did you decide to be the opposite and do the right thing with newbies? 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! The three strong backs that I was to build for 7th motors was put on hold. didnt get shot at and we safely landed and taxied off the run way. 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. 6 years ago. In August 1967, the headquarters of NSA Danang was moved from downtown Danang to Camp Tien Sha.:33. Jan 30, 2008. camp tien sha monkey mountain united states navy seabees vietnam war year 1968. This is a 122mm rocket crater in the road in front of our shop. MOS. At that time the base fir truck showed up. Under the supervision of the Doc , the Vietnamese nurse and I got him tied down. Some morning I would be more tired when I woke up than when I went to bed. I heard the truth the next day at the mess hall. After a short rest to pull my self together I went back and finished putting the door spring on and about that time one of my team mates picked me up and took me back to the shop. But when shit happens to you and you are the victim, everything changed! Another interesting point is the H&S Co. I have spent countless hours over the past 15 years driving my motorbike around the Camp Books area looking for any of our workers. Guest 31-Aug-2016 02:35: . The saw he used was a miniature version of the bone saw we used when we cut up cows or pigs at butchering time on the farm! As he cut them off he threw them in the corner beside the shelf and I can remember how strange they looked leaning against the wall! They made runs north to Cua Viet at the mouth of the river (80 miles north of DaNang and 6 miles south of the Demilitarized Zone) and then upriver eight miles to Dong Ha to haul cannon ammunition to the marines. This would also give Beerworth time to get his guys out on their job. He got the point and let me through the gate, no more questions asked. a lot in Vietnam. It was 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. I am a 20 year old US soldier and my country says I have to be here! Barbee was very well liked by the labor crew. Indianapolis, IN 46203. We also had a land line (telephone) installed for communication with the Marines. Bombardier. So as May 1968 ended I had been in Vietnam for 1 month! It was in a large dirt field 150 yards outside of the north perimeter. This was a Sunday afternoon BBQ about 1800 hr. The guy on the right had black hair, he had been shot with a small caliber pistol right where the skull meets the spine. It was not exactly what you would call a state of the art mental hospital ! Target audience. Made a very good impression on me, I didn't even consider it my whole time in Vietnam ! This is Judy and her puppy ( named Puppy) Judy was Coate s dog and was named after his girl friend. Re: Vietnam Nam vet wants to see war sites. It was the UH-1 trailing smoke. She is always with me ! U.S. So much for getting Sunday off. Tracers were bouncing all over in front of the truck. By 1969 I was and RM3 in the White Elephant (an old French Fort in downtown Da Nang) where the commanding Admiral was located. Ray Norton. Friday was an interesting day. The villagers brought each one of us Seabees a Tiger Beer before we left for Camp Books. 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. In July 1966 the "Bridge Cargo Ramp" (160307N 1081352E / 16.052N 108.231E / 16.052; 108.231) began operations increasing NSA's supply capability. One of them used to take me to the MACV Club located by the USS Repose. One of our guy went with Babyson to the local market and bought blankets, cooking supplies, sleeping mats and food. The next weekend I asked about the farmer ? I got used to the nights but was never comfortable enough to sleep well. Our generators were not even running yet so I heard the rocket coming in. "Ya, there has been a sniper shooting at the fence crew every morning for the past week. I thought the clinic was for children. The main supply base for the Marines in I Corp was at Tien Sha near the coast in Da Nang. Book cover type. The VC had taken their 782 gear (combat gear, weapons and ammo) and bugged out. The new pier facility allowed deep-draft ocean-going vessels to unload cargo directly onto . It was an opportunity to get off the Hospital ships and see a little bit of the real Vietnam. 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. Closer and closer, the engine starting to whine! It was kind of like the work orders I got. Lance Corporal James D Feucht (cause of death,misadventure). His name was Coate and he was a 3rd class yeoman. You FNGs get off the plane and fall in over there. One night I was called out for some lights on the west perimeter. He expired nine days later. The carpenter flat bed truck. It is very likely this was were the Marines were killed . During Vietnam war - Evac. MCB . Detachment Dong Ha - 1967 - 1970. ( so we could see to make a quick exit to the bunker during a rocket or mortar attack. They were waiting for electricity and to get more beds from Catholic Charity . This article incorporatespublic domain material from websites or documents of the Naval History and Heritage Command. You got to do what you got to do ! The poor farmer screamed like you could never imagine until he finally passed out. I was finished with my concrete forms before noon on Wednesday . Then walk the length of pier re-installing any buffer pads that might have come out. Some of the rocket attacks were on Camp Books (FLC) . So there I would be for over a week trying to keep the mosquitoes off of me by covering with the sheet and putting my head in the pillow case. The nurse was carrying a little girl about 4 years old. VVA's goals . right , Huan one of my carpenters. We also had a couple of American Philco Ford teachers. I needed to know which of the sound meant danger! Later after they landed it became obvious that they were throwing out the ammo boxes so they wouldn't explode when they landed. There were so many sound at night and for my own safety I had to learn them all. would be thinking about that meal a lot! Some where along the line the nurse had done an IV drip. The first half of my year in Vietnam (1967) I was stationed at the large U. S. base in Danang. I went to my CO and asked to help. There was always something interesting to watch at Camp Books. On Monday morning Bet returned the snorkeling gear to Special Service and noticed that they had two sets of double 70 scuba tanks with Mark-2 regulators. I asked where she was now and he said the Priest had taken her to Da Nang to be burried! 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. The hooch in back is the doctors office and residents. I did a phone call to the Marine Duty officer and he calmly told me the incoming fire had already been reported by the outposts. On Friday May 17 I was sent out on another job. Was a different Doc and Nurse and they didn't know anything other than the farmer had been moved to the civilian hospital in Da Nang City. I just haven't had time for any more. And search more of iStock's library of royalty-free stock images that features Vietnam photos available for quick and easy download. The building site was about 150 yards outside of the north perimeter and the perimeter had not been opened up yet. 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 ! Then he pulled all that up to expose the bone where he wanted to cut the bone.The nurse held all the skin and muscle up while the Doc cut off the bones. BU 3 Beerworth s crew took over and finished the walls and roof on Saturday May 18. For the time being they were stashed in my hooch and on May 24, Karl Voiles spent his first day assembling beds. Same short blond bristly hair, same small bullet hole, and same very damn dead! Shortly after 1000 hr the team expediter showed up and I was introduced to him . Find Camp Tien Sha, Headquarters unit information, patches, operation history, veteran photos and more on TogetherWeServed.com. 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. DS CS: Jan 1968: 6 Oct 1972: NSGDet - at 8th RRFS, PhuBai, Vietnam. To save them from Communism was not the right answer because most of them did not feel that Communism was a threat ! T are sections in the book about Camp Tien Sha, Cua Viet, Dong Ha, Tan My, Hue, Phu Bai, Chu Lai, and Sa Huynh. The MPs left in a hurry. 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! It's claim to fame was that it had a black prostitute. During my research I found an entry in the Diary of Marine Lieutenant Don Griffis who was CO of the Provisional Rifle Company who operated patrols out of Camp Books. If there was any heavy weather and to many buffer pads were jumping out I would have to go back to the hooch and roust out a work crew. I was shocked when he told me she was only 15 years old! whatever you say Mr. As soon as they caught on they would take on that task and I would move on to the next. Danang was handling more tonnage than the port of Baltimore at the time. The only answer I could give them that they would except was. She would throw dirt into the air and scratch at her face until it was bleeding , rubbing dirt into the cuts. 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. My Vietnamese workers were hunkered down by the lumber pile about 30 ft from me.Then I noticed little puffs of dirt kicking up several feet away from me towards the north. THIS IS A FULL Collection of 4 pages of FIRE BASES, AIR FORCE BASES, Naval and Medical, BROWN WATER Naval, and any and all bases DOD during the Vietnam War 1963 to 1975. When I found out about that I went with Bet to talk to that officer. It must have been about 1100 hr. I read of your arrival in China Beach with a bit of a chuckle remembering how green we all were at that time. U.S. (Actually, I rode in a truck.) About a mile out the crew started kicking boxes out the doors. Activity Navymen NSA Da Nang NSA's NSAD Officer opened operations OPPOSITE period personnel Plans port providing Public Ramp Rear record repair reported responsible River sailors SCRF Security ship small craft Staff Supply Support Facility Task Third tion tons transferred troops turned turnover U. What the hell is that? The ESSO fuel plant from the north east side where we were snorkeling. I think it was on May 22,Wednesday when I was on the night radio,phone watch that I wrote my poem about this event. The doc had no idea but it was a sure thing she was going to die. These Vietnam War photos taken by U.S. Army photographers reveal a side of the conflict that few people have ever seen. These positive relations were largely a reflection of the fact that black and white soldiers in combat were heavily dependent on one another. Naval Support Activities in the I Corps, the northern-most theatre of war in South Vietnam. The Seabee construction crews he is referring to was my crew. Even then every time the Doc cut through a nerve that farmer would try to fly through the roof! Recent photo of Cheryl and me. I suppose I am a genuine hero of the Vietnam conflict. When Puppy was big enough our secretary, interpreter Miss Nguyen took Puppy home with her to Danang. He left me sitting there on the steps saying he would send Beerworth down at 1700 hr to get me settled in. It was very clear that they did not want a FNG getting in their way. $10 of that came from me. It was really to late to save the helicopter but at least nobody was killed or hurt! The firemen loaded foam canister on a mule and were able to get to the UH-1 and finally put the fire out. There were other things to screw up the nights. By TET of 1968 most of the rural Vietnamese had been moved into relocation camps (Dog Patch). 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 bunker in back was the Korean bunker that I slept in while I was building my hooch. Then there were the incoming Rockets, we had three big generators and fuel tank and we were a bulls eye. What that means is we stood a four hour night watch every other night. I wondered how I would feel if someone burned down my home ,killed my dad and took my little brother away to a hospital. I guess that is why there were a lot of E-2 in the Marines. The official report was small arms fire on the perimeter. It was creepy doing that trip to the causeway. When the Doc was finished he told me I could remove the stick. Cest pourquoi tous les fichiers proposs sur iStock, quil sagisse dune, Des publicits sur les rseaux sociaux aux panneaux daffichage, en passant par les prsentations PowerPoint et longs mtrages, vous aurez la libert de modifier, redimensionner et personnaliser tous les fichiers sur iStock, y compris toutes les images et vidos, dessins Humoristiques et Bandes dessines, Notices lgales et protection de la vie prive. What we finally did was a one man 12 hour watch. So off to Camp Tien Sha to get my gear and check out. Nobody even knowing where from or if they had families. We aren't sure where he is yet and haven't got permission to go after him! I would have to find some time to build a foot locker. En savoir plus sur les images libres de droits ou consulter la FAQ sur les photos. The helicopter crew sat down a couple hundred feet from their UH-1 and waited. The doctor and nurse came out of the clinic. Camp Tien Sha, Vietnam. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! 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. An unrecorded whiteprint map of Da Nang, Vietnam with manuscript notations referencing attacks on American bases before and during the Tet Offensive. One rocket struck this barracks, but the man in this room survived by . It was just after 1700 so I was good. In Feb 1973, evacuated Danang to San Miguel . Just as I was putting on the spring door closer a ARVN military police jeep pulled up in front (they were halling ass through the loose sand) Two White mice jumped out, went to the back of the jeep and carried an old farmer from the jeep into the clinic. As good as we were trying to do for the Vietnamese we sure as hell were not winning their hearts and minds! This book is the capstone volume of the entire series in that 1968, as the title indicates, was the defining year of the war. Barrels of asphalt damaged by rocket attack, April 1969 . It really, really broke my heart! What ever it was we were done by shortly after 1600 hr. We started pouring concrete Wednesday June 5, 1968. Yes, everyone called him soccer ball head ! Go through their front gate then out their back gate to the causeway. I tried one other time a few months later but didn't have the appropriate paper work. Back at the hootch the Seabees got in a major debate about where to put me. Da Nang is known as the tourist capital of South-Central Vietnam, with a west coast location that makes for beautiful sunsets against an impressive backdrop of lush mountains. On Friday I left the shop at 1800hr and went to the Children's Clinic. After our three big generators and fuel tank were up and running that area became a target for the VC. I pretty much walked the whole base then back to the EM club for a cold beer LCM is up to port side of barracks craft. Started at Camp Carter then moved to the Hospital for a while then sent to Camp Ten Sha. Port bow of the barracks craft shows no. He had a little Vietnamese kid with him about 8 years old. Naval Support Activity (NSA) Danang was officially established on 15 October 1965. 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. So my hooch would now have 5 of us. I started building my hooch on Wednesday May 8th at just before noon. Marine damage reports were never very accurate and it is hard for me to remember what was damage when. middle , Mr Kim a Korean Philco Ford electrician . The nurse in the center of the picture is the one who helped amputate the farmers legs. 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. The Chief did manage to get bedding (Ha,Ha) I got one bed sheet and one pillow case. LCU-63 * MI On May 15 I had finished 6 or 8 escape doors. There were many places within NSA/NSF DaNang where personnel were assigned. Sunday late afternoons we were able to get over to the Red Beach causeway and get in some water sessions. 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. Dearest Rita, I just finished a quick letter to my folks first one since I've been here. Camp Tien Sha is a former United States Navy base located in Danang, Vietnam. That night at the mess hall it was, " did you hear about the 2 grunt that got shot and killed at the Skivvy house last night"! The May 27 was my birthday. He lets fly with 8 or 10 rounds then he is done for the day. I asked about the little girl and the doc said she had died Thursday night. James L Chambers (cause of death,misadventure). I was standing in front of the hut assessing the job. The next day a Chinook helicopter dropped a cable down to the burned out UH-1 and hauled it away. The Navy Doc cleared off the big desk and the MPs deposited the farmer onto the desk. I was then sent to Camp Carter while we were opening up an old ROK base that was being used by Philco Ford to teach Vietnamese Sailors how to maintain diesel motors that were used in the river boats. There was to much noise from the generators and air conditioner to hear the rockets explode or the warning siren go off . Only 364 more days to go! I took my time cooling myself off in that shower then went 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. Wittig, a seaman aboard the USS Pocono LCC 16 who . "Honcho come", he pulls me around the Quonset hut, his eyes were as big as saucers! The new wood frame building that I did was behind the camera. "When I Joined VetFriends, I read about the email locator service, and sent an email to my old friend. nstar48; Media item; Jan 30, 2008; korean engineers maintenance control division vietnam war year 1968; . After a couple rocket and mortar attacks my brain never went completely to sleep. Drive out the back gate and about 2 miles to the Navy Seabee base. When we got there the doc wanted to show us around. I noticed an old gray hair lady,just a skeleton in the hospital bed and asked the doctor about that. I held that little girl sitting on my tool box and in a short time she was used to me and clutching onto the front of my shirt. the headquarters of NSA Danang was moved from downtown Danang to Camp Tien Sha. The day we put up our sign . Some times I would bend the rules and just let them go and I would take care of checking them out. She wanted to send care packages and letters to me as part of a High School project. The sign on the mess hall door By the time I graduated from High school I was a damn good diver! 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