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Hello Bill Batho, Your e-mail address was not translated well by me and this got bounced:
I was in Cu Chi a little after you (Jan ''70) and served in the HHD(S-1) of the 86th Signal BN. Our CO was Lt Col. William Renner, Maj Richards was 2nd(S-2) in command, Mr. Hannsberry (?) a CW? was the adjutant. A great little Italian, a CSM was in our office, not sure what he did, but everyone, including the CO respected him. Will never forget his call to "Attention" when Renner would walk in, but I can't remember his name, unless it was something like Veecee,, but that might have been a D.I. back in El Paso, Tx.
After a few weeks, of clerk-typing, I also started bar tending at the Officers' Club. I could have been a VC with heated pizzas my main weapon that no one suffered major damage from, but they only ordered one. I was the friend of Frozen Pizzas.
Soon, In April, I was shipped to My Tho(10th Sig Co) to relearn my MOS and a bit about Comm Centers and then to Ben Tre where the 535th Signal Co had a small detachment providing signal services. Then, I began being an 05C20, RTTO, but in a Comm center. Someone told me that MOS, but I've forgotten. On August 18, while returning from Saigon after entering the edges of Ben Tre, I was injured, put into a coma, and sent home .... the war was over for me.
The only other Signal Company I knew about in Cu Chi was the 125th Sig, which belonged to the 25th Infantry Div.
Please tell me a bit about your stay in the Land of Enchantment, i.e., not NM, but I enjoy skiing there. Do you remember the Mail Clerk?
The first thing I recall doing as a Clerk-typist was making and running a steno graph of the E-5 Study questions for those going before the E-5 Board. All that is remembered about them is the first question and answer
Please supply the answer to 1. What is the purpose of the Army? and I'll tell you what you should have said. Your Pay grade or rank is not in danger. I had a Secret Clearance and know how to keep a secret. Hint: the answer is pragmatic and specific
Name: Bill Batho
Email: billbatho at charter dot com
Hometown: ,
Date: September 13, 2009 - 05:08 PM (pacific)
I was in the Co.B 36th signal Bn. at cu chi from Feb68 Sept69 .Would like hear from someone
--
maafa21.com in your DVD collection ?
God bless you with Peace, Matthew Karl
P. S. Please be Pro-Life-choice. Choice's great, but life is the sine qua
non of each and every choice, so, your life, mine, all lives are gifts
to you, me, each other and when holy to the Sine Qua Non. Amen.
I was in Cu Chi a little after you (Jan ''70) and served in the HHD(S-1) of the 86th Signal BN. Our CO was Lt Col. William Renner, Maj Richards was 2nd(S-2) in command, Mr. Hannsberry (?) a CW? was the adjutant. A great little Italian, a CSM was in our office, not sure what he did, but everyone, including the CO respected him. Will never forget his call to "Attention" when Renner would walk in, but I can't remember his name, unless it was something like Veecee,, but that might have been a D.I. back in El Paso, Tx.
After a few weeks, of clerk-typing, I also started bar tending at the Officers' Club. I could have been a VC with heated pizzas my main weapon that no one suffered major damage from, but they only ordered one. I was the friend of Frozen Pizzas.
Soon, In April, I was shipped to My Tho(10th Sig Co) to relearn my MOS and a bit about Comm Centers and then to Ben Tre where the 535th Signal Co had a small detachment providing signal services. Then, I began being an 05C20, RTTO, but in a Comm center. Someone told me that MOS, but I've forgotten. On August 18, while returning from Saigon after entering the edges of Ben Tre, I was injured, put into a coma, and sent home .... the war was over for me.
The only other Signal Company I knew about in Cu Chi was the 125th Sig, which belonged to the 25th Infantry Div.
Please tell me a bit about your stay in the Land of Enchantment, i.e., not NM, but I enjoy skiing there. Do you remember the Mail Clerk?
The first thing I recall doing as a Clerk-typist was making and running a steno graph of the E-5 Study questions for those going before the E-5 Board. All that is remembered about them is the first question and answer
Please supply the answer to 1. What is the purpose of the Army? and I'll tell you what you should have said. Your Pay grade or rank is not in danger. I had a Secret Clearance and know how to keep a secret. Hint: the answer is pragmatic and specific
Name: Bill Batho
Email: billbatho at charter dot com
Hometown: ,
Date: September 13, 2009 - 05:08 PM (pacific)
I was in the Co.B 36th signal Bn. at cu chi from Feb68 Sept69 .Would like hear from someone
--
maafa21.com in your DVD collection ?
God bless you with Peace, Matthew Karl
P. S. Please be Pro-Life-choice. Choice's great, but life is the sine qua
non of each and every choice, so, your life, mine, all lives are gifts
to you, me, each other and when holy to the Sine Qua Non. Amen.