We also had a couple of American Philco Ford teachers. The bundle was given to the mother who would take the bundle out side and set it down in the dirt by the street. The nurse in the center of the picture is the one who helped amputate the farmers legs. I even passed an enlisted sailor with a can of white paint and he was Guest 31-Aug-2016 02:35: . VVA's goals . MCB . The Post office was about 75 yards from my hootch. What the F is wrong with her? I am a 20 year old US soldier and my country says I have to be here! 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. Detachment Phu Bai - 1965 -1970. During Vietnam war - Evac. Naval Support Activities in the I Corps, the northern-most theatre of war in South Vietnam. An electrician CN (E-3). Keep exploring. Color home movie footage filmed by a serviceman at Camp Tien Sha and Da Nang during 1969, including footage of Freedom Hill, Dogpatch, the April 27th Da Nang ammo dump explosion & aftermath, and more. Les nouveaux clients peuvent tlcharger cette image en profitant de notre offre dessai gratuit sans engagement. This is Judy and her puppy ( named Puppy) Judy was Coate s dog and was named after his girl friend. Around back there was a Jeep with a utility trailer on behind. It had been built the end of April so was brand new. Some part of it was always listening to what was going on . At the base of Monkey mountain was Camp Tien Sha, the main Navy base. It was very clear that they did not want a FNG getting in their way. As tired as I was I never got much sleep. NAVAL SUPPORT ACTIBITY DANANG, VIETNAM" patch on the front cover with gold embossed Naval Support Activity Da Nang 1966-67. Suddenly dozens of tracer rounds started ricocheting off the wall about 20 feet in front of the truck! Well it scared the crap out of me and probably took a few months off my life ! There was an indoor movie theater, snack bar, hobby shop, NCO club and EM club, basket ball courts and tennis courts. 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. We set the radio on squelch so it would make a lot of noise and wake us up. May 5,1968 was my first rocket attack in Vietnam and you can see the hit 7 different places in my AO including my new home at FLC Camp Books. Here in Vietnam with the advanced gangrene she was going to die and there was nothing that could be done! He's shooting from a long way out and hasn't hit anyone yet. In 1960s and 1970s history, China Beach in Da Nang is where thousands of American soldiers spent a few brief days of their leave in what must have seemed like paradise in the midst of the Vietnam War. The doc had no idea but it was a sure thing she was going to die. 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. ( Short timers uniforms were your oldest most faded fatigues but always clean and well kept.) Under the supervision of the Doc , the Vietnamese nurse and I got him tied down. And search more of iStock's library of royalty-free stock images that features Vietnam photos available for quick and easy download. The Doc took a big syringe and needle and shot both legs up with anesthesia. The rest of my tour I did what every good Seabee team would do, I stole them ! The flares were often still burning when they hit the ground. Level the frames and tie them to the stakes and I would have my concrete forms complete. on 6 Oct 1972 . Was I scared ? These places had many different names, abbreviations, acronyms, terms, and phrases.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. nstar48; Media item; Jan 30, 2008; He was driving a 1 1/2 ton flat bed stake truck and was making the rounds to pick up supplies. The Marines slept 12 to 14 men in a hootch. Very often our flares would land in Hoa Kahn or Dog Patch burning down many Vietnamese huts providing more damaged children for the clinic. 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. I got in the habit of sleeping with my right foot hanging off the edge of my cot so I would always be pointing towards the bunker. Then we saw a little dot far up Elephant Valley. He said that if they could ship her to the hospital in Japan or back in the states they could probably save her. APL-30 and dock at Da Nang harbor. Modern. Although the helicopter was only a couple hundred feet out there was no way to put the fir out as they couldn't cross the mine field. Donald F. Hovanec was born on December 10, 1949. I dont know a damn thing so I got my NAUI Scuba diving cerification in July 1966. The year 1968 was the year of the Tet Offensive including Khe Sanh and Hue City. The Seabee construction crews he is referring to was my crew. 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. Find Camp Tien Sha, Headquarters unit information, patches, operation history, veteran photos and more on TogetherWeServed.com. The two crew members jumped out just under the flames .They carried their M-60 machine guns. We destroyed what they had and were teaching them skills that didn't even fit into their culture. Danang was handling more tonnage than the port of Baltimore at the time. This is the Hoa Kahn clinic at the time I started working there. MCB 53 was decommissioned at Davisville, Rhode Island on 10 December 1969. Camp Tien Sha, Da Nang Camp Tieu Khu, Binh Duong Province Camp John R. Tine, Kien Phong Province Torello . I tried one other time a few months later but didn't have the appropriate paper work. uniform. That's how we got our beds, enough for everyone. "Sorry that's all we have!" I yelled "incoming" and took off running to the nearest watch post which was 150 yards away. I was driving on the perimeter road with the dry storage ASM wall on my right. Map of the Vietnam War. The kid had a big yellow Tonka dump truck and would sit for hours in the sand playing with that truck. Mostly I would just build and they would watch and fallow what I did. Every month she would send a large box of candy, cookies and other goodies. Tracers were bouncing all over in front of the truck. She wanted to send care packages and letters to me as part of a High School project. On the left Cela profite tout le monde. Next thing I realize he has a hold on my sleeve. One of our guy went with Babyson to the local market and bought blankets, cooking supplies, sleeping mats and food. 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. Camp Haskins, Da Nang, Vietnam, served as headquarters of the 30th Naval Construction Regiment, who exercised operational control of Seabee units deployed to Vietnam. I felt sorry for the other guys in the truck with me . The new pier facility allowed deep-draft ocean-going vessels to unload cargo directly onto . Guard shacks along the pipe line to the ESSO fuel plant, Oil Tanker off loading at the ESSO fuel plant. May 1. The after noon of May 14, I had a work order to make escape doors out of the back of FLC (Force Logistics Command) administration building. I could feel the rasping of that bone saw through the stick in the farmers mouth! It was to late to get him settled in because we were so incredibly busy with rocket attack damage. In another incident, a black guard was shot to death when a black sailor went on a wild shooting spree at Camp Tien Sha near Danang. [3] NSA Danang originally operated from a commercial pier on the city side of the Hn River and this "Museum Ramp" (160300N 1081328E / 16.05N 108.2245E / 16.05; 108.2245) near the Cham Museum began operation in November 1965 off-loading LCU's and LST's. From 1800 hours until 0600 we had to have some one stand watch. In reality, it is a collection of ideas, images, and information that enough people have chosen to preserve and disseminate. 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. Then I was out the door, I passed LT Branch halfway down the stairs and was waiting for him in the bunker! So every week there would be a different doctor. - LCU-63 * MIA * Pilot, youre the one flying the plane. meal in Vietnam was roast beef, mashed potatoes and gravy, green peas, 2 large Chief then showed me the mess hall and walked me down to the Seabee hooch's. What was done was done! Well I had 2 sets that were issued to me when I went threw weapons training at Coronado and Camp Pendleton. While my guys were working I was talking to the Gunny in the hut. Detachment Hue - 1965 - 1970. OK, Im new here, the rooky, He lets fly with 8 or 10 rounds then he is done for the day. Vietnam Memorial Monument Mobile Memorial Museum . Don't try to cross in to the base as there were mines. I went out and sat on my toolbox and thought about what I had just experienced. 15 rounds hit us with 3 KIA and 15 wounded. The building site was about 150 yards outside of the north perimeter and the perimeter had not been opened up yet. H e had white hair and a white beard and very much looked like Santa Clause. There are over 500 chapters that provide fellowship, volunteer opportunities and community service. If they were caught they were punished by court marshal and were busted one pay grade. I thought the clinic was for children. Go through their front gate then out their back gate to the causeway. It turned 90 degrees to the right and touched down between two rows of concertina wire in the middle of the perimeter. In August 1967, the headquarters of NSA Danang was moved from downtown Danang to Camp Tien Sha.:33. Hard bound with blue cover and full color replica of the U.S. By 1969 I was and RM3 in the White Elephant (an old French Fort in downtown Da Nang) where the commanding Admiral was located. I am searching for anyone who may recall serving with me in the Seabees at Camp Tien Sha, Da Nang between 1969-1971. The fire was caused by a Air or artillery white phosphorus flare ( WP). On February 10, 1970, SN Robert T. Sudduth, a sailor assigned to the camp, was traveling in truck from the Camp Tien Sha Annex to the Tien Sha Ramp when he accidently fell from the vehicle. My address is: Phillip K. Sampley. Uss garrett county ( lst-786 ) uss garrett county ( lst-786 ) uss garrett (. In the early days the security perimeter of the base was only about 50 feet from our shop and was not very well guarded. Pham Ba went around back to take a pee. One night I was in the office with LT Branch . He told me step by step every detail. The Doc told me to help tie the farmer down to the desk. Sometimes we could be called out 2 or 3 times in a night. James L Chambers (cause of death,misadventure). I had to make a quick exit when the patients got excited when I walked towards the main ward! (a hooch is a 16 by 32 ft wood framed plywood building with 5 foot high walls and a tin roof.) Nights in Vietnam were uncomfortable at best. Then after thinking about it I realized how wrong I was. A sad day because we were no longer a Seabee Team ! "Honcho come", he pulls me around the Quonset hut, his eyes were as big as saucers! . So what did I do for work uniforms ? Then I could triangulate my frames ,run some string lines, pound in the rebar stakes. Coate gave me two sets of shorts and short sleeve shirts. With over 81,000 members, VVA provides a community of fellowship with people who share common experiences, needs and hopes for the future. In November 1965, Marines moved into Camp Tien-Sha, an old French Army camp situated on the Tien-Sha Peninsula and illustrated near the top . Her husband was an ARVN soldier who had been killed. There hours were 0800 to1700 so it was impossible for me to go. He expired nine days later. I faked being a doctor from the USA and was shown around a little. That episode followed rioting along China Beach by black . 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. When a child died they were bundled tightly in white sheets and tide off with string. It was a long miserable cold 12 hour night. Style attributes. I got used to the nights but was never comfortable enough to sleep well. I was in Vietnam from November 3, 1968, through November 7, 1969. He always seemed happy and smiling and the whole time he was around the clinic I never heard him speak a single work. 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 ! Relations outside of combat were typified by racial tension and violence. I would sit at the desk and drink coffee, write letters or poetry. That was the LTs first rocket attack and he didn't react fast enough. 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. the headquarters of NSA Danang was moved from downtown Danang to Camp Tien Sha. So much for getting Sunday off. The Marine on the left was blond and looked like a California surfer.He to had been shot in the back of the head. ---- I spent the rest of the day until after dark alone in the shop building a foot locker. There was no time off just the same 12 hr work shift. Later I built a wash building and cook shack just about where these cots and the officers are standing. There was a young mother with several kid and grandma and grandpa. while we were starting the wall framing we heard the sound of a UH-1 helicopter. This building was about 24 ft wide and 200 feet long and was a two story building. Naval Support Activity DaNang (1965-1970 . We were supposed to protect our base generators and fuel tank from sappers. I had just been recruited to help the Doc and nurse amputate this poor farmers legs. It was about the most insane thing I had ever experienced and was hard for my mind to grasp what had just happened. Iowa. We weren't expecting any new men and we don't have the time to train you. Then walk the length of pier re-installing any buffer pads that might have come out. 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 helicopter crew sat down a couple hundred feet from their UH-1 and waited. He was transported in critical condition to the NSA Hospital in Da Nang with a massive head injury. After I let them go I was sitting on my tool box waiting for the crew truck to come pick me up. Sunday late afternoons we were able to get over to the Red Beach causeway and get in some water sessions. There were many places within NSA/NSF DaNang where personnel were assigned. Some of the rocket attacks were on Camp Books (FLC) . 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. [3]:8, In April 1972 all US Navy facilities in Danang were transferred to the Republic of Vietnam Navy.[4]. BBC News, Da Nang, Vietnam. The events highlighted in yellow directly affected me. I didn't know it then but that was my last good meal for a long time! We took several trucks and picked up Pham Ba and Babyson outside the gate and headed down the road. Indianapolis, IN 46203. The sign on the mess hall door Well I had 11 months to go and it was going to be a very long 11 months ! On the evening of May 23 we got a knew man in, Karl Voiles. Didnt take long to figure out that everyone could see that you were a FNG. Me, age 23, sitting on my bunk drinking a beer and smoking a cigarette. I would have to wait a few more days for that to start. - Danang Harbor Pilot - (Quang Nam) U.S. Army 329th Heavy Boat Company 5th Transportation Company Mine Explosion. Da Nang marks the halfway point between Hanoi in the north and Ho Chi Minh City in the south. So on the hour we would get a call. But when shit happens to you and you are the victim, everything changed! At that time the base fir truck showed up. Familiar Places. All of the workers that worked for us were dislocated Vietnamese and us putting them to work was an attempt to keep their economy rolling. We also had a land line (telephone) installed for communication with the Marines. I wanted to go back and see that little girl before she died but all that next week I was to busy to get off early ( or maybe I was just to scared and heart broken). 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. Danang, VN _ _ DS CS: 1964: Feb 1973: Detachment Bravo, FLTSUPDET, Navcomsta, PI. The other important thing we had to do was to check the Red Beach causeway at 2400 hr. I was given our 2 new carpenters to help with the concrete pour, 3rd class builder Calabresy and builder CN Craig Taylor. 2021/09/07 Cpl. This is the first Poem that I wrote in Vietnam and is about the two marines killed in the skivvy house. painting rocks. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! nstar48; Media item; Jan 30, 2008; korean engineers maintenance control division vietnam war year 1968; . 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. This is my Poem about the farmer who stepped on the mine. Coate introduced me to a Chief Boatswain Mate who was our executive officer.The Commanding officer wasn't there( a lieutenant Junior Grade.) The argument got pretty heated. We are the Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 1122, based in Collin County, Texas. My very first Some time during the night the VC entered the Skivvy house, capturing them without a fight. and I was just finishing up the door. BU3 Hovanec expired July 7, 1969 in Thua Thien, South Vietnam. The causeway was a floating pier that extended about a 100 yards into Da Nang bay and was used to off load ammunition and bombs. (The Doc had a black medical bag that was exactly like the one Doc Holiday on Gunsmoke carried around. Often several rockets would have gone off before I even knew we were under attack ! Re: Vietnam Nam vet wants to see war sites. 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. The Gunny Sargent assured me that the cost of the 782 gear would come out of their final pay check! The rocket attacks after that the would be on target! Closer and closer, the engine starting to whine! I lay there waiting for the out posts to return fire, nothing happened! Because I was just getting situated it was just mass confusion for me . He had to re arrange his schedule to accommodate me. What that means is we stood a four hour night watch every other night. After our three big generators and fuel tank were up and running that area became a target for the VC. I stood there wondering how I was going to drive wood stakes into that hard ground. Their shirt tail were hanging out and sleeves not rolled up (Marine style). Ya, we continued our work and started building my hooch. It was a real learning experience for the three of us. The nurse was carrying a little girl about 4 years old. It seemed a bit strange to see everything so neat and tidy when Often times during a rocket or mortar attack rounds would over shoot landing in Hoa Kahn or Dog Patch ,providing children for the Clinic. We hopped in his truck and he took me down to H&S company supply to get bedding and mess gear. Even then every time the Doc cut through a nerve that farmer would try to fly through the roof! 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. There was always something interesting to watch at Camp Books. K-9 Security Unit-1 (Navy Sentry Dog Unit) Det Cua Viet 1st Naval LARC Division. I joined the Navy Reserve and went to . Well I never did hear from Barbee. When I got on the bus to Camp Tien Sha (the one with chicken wiure on the windows) I knew I wasn't in Kansas. Yes that's puppy and our new steel worker (Calhoun). She is always with me ! There were two supply tents up there and when the Field Marines (grunts) would come in from the bush they would strip off all their dirty clothes and throw them in piles in one tent then go into the other tent and pick up clean uniforms. He got the point and let me through the gate, no more questions asked. The nurse laid across the farmers upper thighs to hold him in place. Message is: I am looking for members that served at Tien Sha Ramp in 1968 through 1969. Over time that changed, I didn't want to know any newbies! Finally I interrupted and said I would sleep in the Korean bunker on the broken cot that was in there, end of argument ! On Tuesday May 14 I finished my hooch and settled into the corner right inside the door. 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. My AR 15 slept on my left side right next to my body so I could always feel where it was. 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. Well I answered once about the FNGs. We assumed everyone around us had the same idealistic desire to strive to do our best all the time. We needed to replace the awning over the entry door that was about to fall off. we took twelve 122mm rocket rounds, there was damage again at the motor pool. 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. Book cover type. This article incorporatespublic domain material from websites or documents of the Naval History and Heritage Command. We were not part of the Marine Civil Affair but worked independent of them. 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