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15 537th Personnel Services Company
I arrived in Vietnam January 1966 at the Tonsenuit AFB. After deboarding the plane, we were immediately ordered to fill sand bags, due to a firefight that was going on.
I was assigned to the 537th Personnel Services Company in Saigon and worked in the 1st Logistics Building, until the unit was relocated/ to a new site in Long Bien. While in Long Bien, we were ordered by Major Bird to go to Phu Loi and in process a new combat unit. We went up in a two truck convey and while there we were ordered to continue the in processing while a fire fight went on at the edge of the compound a short distance from us. On our way back in a single truck, we encountered a large 18 wheel truck blocking the road so our Sgt., who was driving our truck, put the truck through a very small opening between the blocking truck and the jungle. I would really like to communicate with anyone on that assignment, especially if you were in that truck.
The unit was then relocated again and this time it was to a base two miles behind the Bien Hoa airbase with the 173rd Airborne, On New Years Eve of 1967, all of the perimeter tower guards open fire at the same time. It sounded like the base was being over run. It turned out to be a farce.
I out processed laying on the floor at Ben Hoa Airbase while sniper bullets came through the building.
My name is James M. Brewer, [email protected]
I arrived in Vietnam January 1966 at the Tonsenuit AFB. After deboarding the plane, we were immediately ordered to fill sand bags, due to a firefight that was going on.
I was assigned to the 537th Personnel Services Company in Saigon and worked in the 1st Logistics Building, until the unit was relocated/ to a new site in Long Bien. While in Long Bien, we were ordered by Major Bird to go to Phu Loi and in process a new combat unit. We went up in a two truck convey and while there we were ordered to continue the in processing while a fire fight went on at the edge of the compound a short distance from us. On our way back in a single truck, we encountered a large 18 wheel truck blocking the road so our Sgt., who was driving our truck, put the truck through a very small opening between the blocking truck and the jungle. I would really like to communicate with anyone on that assignment, especially if you were in that truck.
The unit was then relocated again and this time it was to a base two miles behind the Bien Hoa airbase with the 173rd Airborne, On New Years Eve of 1967, all of the perimeter tower guards open fire at the same time. It sounded like the base was being over run. It turned out to be a farce.
I out processed laying on the floor at Ben Hoa Airbase while sniper bullets came through the building.
My name is James M. Brewer, [email protected]