"THE HERD"--- D COMPANY,4TH BATT.,503RD AIRBORNE INFANTRY--173RD AIRBORNE BRIGADE.... 1968-71.. 11B/GRUNT/SGT.E-5..

I SERVED 65-66 WITH THE 586TH SIGNAL IN AN KHE WITH THE FIRST CAV. AIRMOBILE. WE LOST A PILOT ON DEC. 15 1965 AND HE IS STILL LISTED AS MIA. HIS NAME WAS JERRY CLARKE AND HE WAS FROM IOWA. HE FLEW A SMALL AIRPLANE AND WAS SHOT DOWN.

Served with the Americal Division from Sep. 1970,
until Sep. 1971

I have visited this site before. I served with 3Bn1stMarines in 1967 and we were based adjacent to Nui Kim Son. Unless I'm badly mistaken your picture of a "105 " recoilless less rifle should read 106. It was a 106 millimeter recoilless I think. Its been a long time someone help me out. Also I have just read about persecution of Christians in Viet Nam at a website named www.vom.com.au What does your organization know about this??

Great site. I was just a little guy at Clark Air Base from '66-'68 but I can remember like it was yesterday standing on the flight line with dad, if he wasn't in Vietnam, watching the F-4's, loaded for bear taking off in full after-burner, headed for danger in some far-away land.....the NORTH, I'm sure. I also remember walking thru the wards at the hospital at Clark with my mom, who was a nurses aid and talking and visiting with some of the wounded troops. This has left a deep impression on me, even to this day, and I find it very hard to sometimes look at things like your web-site or watch movies like "We were soldiers" and not cry like a baby at the shameful waste of human lives...our lives, our fathers and brothers and sisters......It will never leave me, the pain and agony, standing at the base terminal at Clark, or Norton, or Travis, watching my father walk away from us, not knowing if I'd ever see him again....My father did 5 tours in-country and 2 in Thailand. Anyway, enough bitching about my past. Felt good to vent. Thanks for being there and thanks to ALL of you, men, women, black, white, brown, yellow, purple, whatever color or creed you my be.....THANk YOU....for your honor and duty to my country.....You are ALL in my prayers, daily. David.

Good site

my grandpa served in this war. i just wanted to say thanks to every one who did. Thanks alot

You are doing some great work over in Nam. I was with the 3rd Boat Group based out of DaNang and we ran ops throughout I-Corps. Some of the best memories that I have from over there are associated with some civic action support missions we undertook to repair some village water systems to fixing up some playground equipment at some local schools. Best wishes to you with your new projects.

Served with 8th Aerial Port, Saigon, 1963-64

Chief Petty Officer, USN, Retired MACV (SOG) April 67 to April 68

Amazing. Spent 5 months on top of Marble moutain with 106's of H&S weapons 2/1 sept to jan 68-69 I was a corpsman. treated many of the kids in Nui KIm Son. Nice to see a clinic there . Had a friend with 9th marines another corpsman with 2/9 won a Bronze star but died at 53 . so I'm glad again. The village looks bigger now. it was small in 68 and we didin't help by blowing it up or at laest parts of from time to time. They say that the NVA had a hospital in the moutain next to green beannies camp. I'd believe it. They had a good bar there and the only tomato i ever saw in nam i had in their chow hall. I could tell more stories but well you know.

I served from 1969 - 70 355th CS Battalion 1st Aviation Brigade

I served with Company D, 1st BN, 11th Bde, 5th Inf Div out of Quang Tri from July 1970 to Feb. 1971

I was in the nam from June 67 thru oct 69 on the gun truck Iron Butterfly the last year, was with 630th ordinance just out of Quin nan the first year at the ammo dump. Had some good times and bad,but came out of it reasonably OK You have a good site.

In country 66-67, 139 th Med Det. Qui Nhon, Anke