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. Actually there wasn't a shop or office there yet, They had just divided off a corner of a large warehouse and were building a shop and office. Our mess hall, about 70 yards from my hootch took a direct hit on the serving line and kitchen area. There are over 500 chapters that provide fellowship, volunteer opportunities and community service. I went home in August 1967, Before we destroyed their lives they all had jobs and skills that worked in their culture! I served there and just would like to hear from some of the guys that was there. Don't try to cross in to the base as there were mines. 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. Often several rockets would have gone off before I even knew we were under attack ! What was done was done! Charlie 2. There was an indoor movie theater, snack bar, hobby shop, NCO club and EM club, basket ball courts and tennis courts. 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 ! The tents were on the right. Well I had 11 months to go and it was going to be a very long 11 months ! The poor farmer had stepped on a mine. 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. a small cargo plane in the middle of the night, all I The new pier facility allowed deep-draft ocean-going vessels to unload cargo directly onto trucks instead of offloading into Lighters while anchored in the harbor. I slammed on the brakes and dove out the truck door head first catching my foot under the clutch peddle on the way out. The course is a model in how to survive, and how to come home with honor. I had a ball throwing that jeep this place, wearing only "shower [1], By July 1968 NSA Danang handled 350,000 tons of cargo each month for the 200,000 allied troops in I Corps. I actually took the class in 1965 but at that time you had to be 18 years old to get a Scuba Certification. background old PTF Base and Monkey Detachment Cua Viet - 1967 - 1970. A regular jeep would accommodate 5 people, while in this They were simply ghettos with poor sanitation , communal water supply, no roads or electricity. It was what those A smell I have never smelled again in my life time. We took several trucks and picked up Pham Ba and Babyson outside the gate and headed down the road. work out the details with him. Khoi Tran and Hong Th Hin faved this 3,723 views 2 faves 0 comments Taken on March 17, 2017 Some rights reserved Nikon SUPER COOLSCAN 9000 ED Cn Th Base Camp. very first day of war. So as May 1968 ended I had been in Vietnam for 1 month! Only 364 more days to go! Chu Lai Base Area. I didn't think about the danger but was aware of it. 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. All terrain forklifts would scurry back and forth off I didn't It was time to go look for some food! I thought the clinic was for children. The three strong backs that I was to build for 7th motors was put on hold. Welcome to Viet----fuckn Nam you FNGs ( funking new guys) !!! even included a week in Coronado, a week at Pendleton (weapons Inside of that trailer, face down were 2 dead Marines. I turned 20 years old and of coarse it went un- noticed although I had gotten a care package from Annett Burrel, a couple surfing magazines from my brother Jay and a birthday card from my girl friend Linda! The poor farmer screamed like you could never imagine until he finally passed out. Nice history lesson for me. 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. May 1. What the F is wrong with her? paths and painted white and there were white picket fences around almost every Camp Tien Sha Vietnam 1968 from Monkey Mountain Bombardier Pretorian Aug 16, 2013 Good photo, get a good look at the base. A sad day because we were no longer a Seabee Team ! configured jeep. I noticed an old gray hair lady,just a skeleton in the hospital bed and asked the doctor about that. 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. ---- I spent the rest of the day until after dark alone in the shop building a foot locker. I would have to wait a few more days for that to start. 15 rounds hit us with 3 KIA and 15 wounded. China Beach, Vietnam. Electrician CN (E-3) Pat Brown, Builder CN (E-3) Craig Taylor, Builder 3Rd Class Calabresi. 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. The number of rockets are probably plus or minus a couple rockets. Our generators were not even running yet so I heard the rocket coming in. He told me step by step every detail. Drive out the back gate and about 2 miles to the Navy Seabee base. A refugee family was living in a lean too in Dog Patch south . 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. So just go back to work and keep moving so he doesn't have a stationary target and you should be OK!" He lets fly with 8 or 10 rounds then he is done for the day. They were trying to fly that chopper to the safety of Camp Books. not leaving a big enough tip. layout - (07-07-02) cold glasses of chocolate milk, ice cream and an apple to go. and the LT moved to the Da. The feet just kind of hanging by muscle and skin. Because I had to fend for myself I did help the newbies who moved into my hooch. It turned 90 degrees to the right and touched down between two rows of concertina wire in the middle of the perimeter. Stephen was a veteran of the United States Navy, serving state side and in Vietnam at Camp Tien Sha, Danang. There was a Marine listening ambush set up outside the perimeter in that area. [1], 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 went to my CO and asked to help. We were here, 1968 SPECIAL REPORT: "CAMP TIEN SHA RACIAL TROUBLE" Hezakya Newz & Films 165K subscribers Subscribe 300 9.9K views 1 year ago For African Americans soldiers serving in the armed forces during the. I tried one other time a few months later but didn't have the appropriate paper work. Was I scared ? 1966 and assumed I would spend two years on a submarine in WesPac. Our group that was sent to MST1 landed in [1] In November 1965 500 men moved into the old French Army camp, Camp Tien Sha at the foot of Monkey Mountain. Barbee was very well liked by the labor crew. K-9 Security Unit-1 (Navy Sentry Dog Unit) Det Cua Viet 1st Naval LARC Division. Travis, Hawaii, Subic Bay (and shore patrol in Olongapo), then to Once I went "over" Any damage at FLC was my teams responsibility to asses , clean up and repair or replace so I had direct involvement in all rocket and mortar attacks at FLC. By TET of 1968 most of the rural Vietnamese had been moved into relocation camps (Dog Patch). It started raining Saturday June1st and rained continuously until Wednesday morning but that didn't slow down work any. with Calif. Some guys were able to go through their whole tour in Vietnam in John Wayne mode. I didn't realize at the time that the intended target was me and the generators. It was in a large dirt field 150 yards outside of the north perimeter. Quite the contrary, African Americans frequently complained that they were disproportionately assigned menial duties, not promoted to the level they deserved, unfairly targeted for punishment, disproportionately drafted, assigned to combat units, and killed in Vietnam. Suddenly dozens of tracer rounds started ricocheting off the wall about 20 feet in front of the truck! Individuality, not. He spent the night at the shop bunker by himself , totally confused as to what was going on. . right out of there. New year found [3] The camp was quickly expanded to include 25 new barracks able to accommodate an additional 1,700 men, together with a barber shop, post exchange and milk plant. CONTACT: VETERANS CENTER OF NORTH TEXAS. He had a little Vietnamese kid with him about 8 years old. ( Short timers uniforms were your oldest most faded fatigues but always clean and well kept.) You got to do what you got to do ! What I really Donations for May. I faked being a doctor from the USA and was shown around a little. I was going to start building my own hooch so I would have a place to sleep ! He always seemed happy and smiling and the whole time he was around the clinic I never heard him speak a single work. Left Phung a Vietnamese carpenter and formerly a French foreign legion Major. Book cover type. On 1 April 1966 Naval Forces Vietnam was established in Saigon and assumed control of NSA Danang from III MAF. by the time they got to us AWC# 5 we would be awake (hopefully) and report in. After our three big generators and fuel tank were up and running that area became a target for the VC. "Supply" at Camp Fay BU 3 Beerworth s crew took over and finished the walls and roof on Saturday May 18. half, aside from the times that I there was a war going on. two parts, right and left, I have to It sure seemed longer then a month, to me it was more like a few months! I went out and sat on my toolbox and thought about what I had just experienced. Although the rules were they had to go back and check out. I was called to active durty in July ( the rules for Camp Books were that to be off base you had to have a weapon). Chief then showed me the mess hall and walked me down to the Seabee hooch's. I was able to remain calm and under control and do what ever he told me but inside I was on the edge of losing it! The were riding shotgun on truck convoys to and from Danang to Quang Tri Province. Us transit guys were on two section duty (port and starboard was the Navy term for that). It was kind of a taste of what we would get when the monsoons came in September. Spent four years in college, and achieved QM3, and qualified in Style attributes. It was just after 1700 so I was good. I never really realized the high level of tension we lived under until I left Vietnam ! During the first half of his in-country tour, Norton made the best of a boring and life- consuming job as a Tien Sha Peninsula Security Division guard. When we got there the doc wanted to show us around. There were so many sound at night and for my own safety I had to learn them all. vietnamandmilitary $6.00 Original, In Wrapper P-38 Vietnam War vietnamandmilitary $175.00 Naval Support Activity, Da Nang 1968 Cruise Book vietnamandmilitary Seller Information Seller vietnamandmilitary Contact Seller But I don't consider myself as one. My day was done!! Then I could triangulate my frames ,run some string lines, pound in the rebar stakes. and their 155 and 175 guns. 15x12. The cot had a broken leg so I had to prop it up with a sand bag and it was missing one end piece so it just wanted to fold up on me when I laid on it. You FNGs get off the plane and fall in over there. Ch Linh Camp. When I started working on this clinic project I was full of good feelings as to how we were helping these poor Vietnamese people. 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. You'll see the plumes of smoke, fireballs and falling debris from the explosion of the DaNang ammo dump on April 27, 1969 -- and close ups of some of the damage to buildings and barracks. C Chi tunnels. Camp Tien Sha Vietnam $20.00 Brand: Design Apparel Product Description Order this cap today.. U.S. The kids head had been stitched up and looked just like a soccer ball. 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. ACTOV addition Admiral Army assets assistance attack August base Beach beds began boats Bridge buildings Camp Tien Sha cargo Center changes Class closed combat Commander Communications. the two boat docks at DaNang. Within a hundred feet of the generators. Charles R. Smith . 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. Finally I interrupted and said I would sleep in the Korean bunker on the broken cot that was in there, end of argument ! )The Doc gave me a large stick like a tongue depressor ,except bigger. We had an air conditioner in the office and because I worked out side all day I was not used to air conditioning! Camp Tien Sha is a former United States Navy base located in Danang, Vietnam. Guess world in a land that nobody cared about , I was sitting in a Continental If I wanted something I had to have Bet or Ski pick it up. 5440 x 3520 px (18.13 x 11.73 in.) 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. Clayton Beerworth and I were working on major repairs there by 0600 and the Mess hall was in operation more or less by that evening although it took a couple more days to get it up to 100% . The Doc started by cutting the legs off. If your lost and want Administration Armed assigned Assistant August Back base boats Camp Tien Sha CAPT Captain cargo Center CHARLES Chief of Staff combat Commander Control Corps craft Cua Viet DaNang DAVID. aspects of it are certainly more memorable than the bad parts. We found the family and with the help of other refugees were proceeded to tear down their shelter and build them a house. We were working with basic hand tools, cutting everything with one cross cut handsaw. thought though was he was just putting on a show for us new guys. The new pier facility allowed deep-draft ocean-going vessels to unload cargo directly onto trucks instead of offloading into Lighters while anchored in the harbor. 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. 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. We had devastated their economy and destroyed their infrastructure. information beyond what we already have. There were other things to screw up the nights. ] [ Base Drawing Legend ]. The following information was emailed in to These positive relations were largely a reflection of the fact that black and white soldiers in combat were heavily dependent on one another. little early to get back in school and finish my degree. I started building my hooch on Wednesday May 8th at just before noon.
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