Good website. You all have done a lot of work on it. Some of the pictures bring back memories. I came over in Aug '65 with the Army as a member of Task Force Alpha's Chemical Section. After we landed at Nha Trang the Section found out that just after we left Fort Hood Texas, they received a telegram telling them to keep the Chemical Section in Texas. So it goes. I guess the Army didn't want us used as a propaganda subject to claim we were preparing for "unconventional warfare"

The seven of us were loaded onto the first aircraft to Sai gon and assigned to HQ & HQ Co. USARV on Tan Son Nhut Airbase. Here I spent my last 9 months in the Army. Since my only MOS was a CBR Staff Specialist, there were only so many things they could have me do. The NCO's all had Infantry training so could act as door gunners. I became a chauffer, courier, gofer, draftsman and general flunky.

I guess my only achievement was that I qualified for the good driving award - drove in excess of 10,000 miles on the streets of Sai gon and Ton Son Nhut with no accidents. Plenty of close calls (6" or less), averaging about 1 per day. In an area where the natives were known for trying to get hit so that they could get a cash settlement fron the military.

I did get to tour around town though. It was a pretty place at least while I was there