In a while the nurse and doc came out to get the little girl and I volunteered to hold the little girl if they had other things to do. 6320 Selago Drive. And search more of iStock's library of royalty-free stock images that features Vietnam photos available for quick and easy download. The hooch in back is the doctors office and residents. I guess that is why there were a lot of E-2 in the Marines. march in columns of two over to that building. side was a area called Bridge Ramp which was where the Navy LSTs would pull in The Docs loved coming to Hoa Kahn Clinic. In the future I Necessarily, more is lost to time than is remembered. Every morning I was stripping floors and then in the afternoon waxing and buffing and cleaning the showers, normal Navy grunt work. Well damn right I was scared. world in a land that nobody cared about , I was sitting in a Continental Some part of it was always listening to what was going on . Was I scared ? Danang, VN _ _ DS CS: 1964: Feb 1973: Detachment Bravo, FLTSUPDET, Navcomsta, PI. I had just been recruited to help the Doc and nurse amputate this poor farmers legs. Ya, we continued our work and started building my hooch. Drinking black coffee trying to stay alert. Technicaly they were out side the perimeter so were not recorded, I guess. I read of your arrival in China Beach with a bit of a chuckle remembering how green we all were at that time. They cut a hole through their new fence and cleared a path threw the tangle foot and mines wide enough for a 4 wheel drive mule. May 27 was my birthday. Sunday late afternoons we were able to get over to the Red Beach causeway and get in some water sessions. This article incorporatespublic domain material from websites or documents of the Naval History and Heritage Command. Closer and closer, the engine starting to whine! Often the convoys would drop off kids from out in the bush. This is the Hoa Kahn clinic at the time I started working there. The Seabee team had 8 junior men in one hootch and 4 senior men in the second hootch. I thought the clinic was for children. By July 1968 NSA Danang handled 350,000 tons of cargo each month for the . You FNGs get off the plane and fall in over there. by the time they got to us AWC# 5 we would be awake (hopefully) and report in. Camp Tien Sha, Vietnam. TWS is the largest online community of Veterans existing today and is a powerful Veteran locator. and to listen to music. In November 1965 500 men moved into the old French Army camp, Camp Tien Sha at the foot of Monkey Mountain. The MPs had used their white belts as tourniquets just above the knees. Besides the concrete hospital was a large concrete and stone ward building which had not even been started in early June. I heard the distant crack of rifle fire and then my brain said holy shit, somebody is shooting at me!! It is also one of the top international surfing destinations. Korean Engineer's I served with in Vietnam 1968 NSA Danang,Maintenace Control Division. We were told that we were teaching them skills so they would be able to have a useful job. 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. T is a history of NSA in Vietnam, which by 1969 was the Navy's largest overseas command with the largest public works department in the world. It turned 90 degrees to the right and touched down between two rows of concertina wire in the middle of the perimeter. This is the first Poem that I wrote in Vietnam and is about the two marines killed in the skivvy house. I got used to the nights but was never comfortable enough to sleep well. Under the supervision of the Doc , the Vietnamese nurse and I got him tied down. If there were any trouble calls from the Marines (usually lights out on the perimeter or something not working at the mess hall) then it was jump in the truck drive out and check and drive over to our hooch and get who ever was needed to go fix the problem. It was in a large dirt field 150 yards outside of the north perimeter. Our shop the day we put up our sign and officially became Area Work Center #5. I wish I would have known about it then! Get those Fucking Gooks away from that Damn trailer". and the LT moved to the Da. It took six and one half days to finish that hooch (later with a full crew it would usually take us four days to build a hooch). would be thinking about that meal a lot! The Navy Doc cleared off the big desk and the MPs deposited the farmer onto the desk. I had my broken leg cot and was living out of my sea bag. Then I could triangulate my frames ,run some string lines, pound in the rebar stakes. So every week there would be a different doctor. Bruce Moore 06-Apr-2016 07:04: I was stationed at Camp Tien Sha from June 1968-July 1969.,I was a BU3 attached to the US Naval Support Activities Danang.I lived in barracks #35 which was on the backside of Camp Tien Sha.I was in barracks #35 when the Rocket and mortar attack began.we had a material storage yard directly behind the barracks that was hit with incoming rounds.I also, as a . I was probably in as much in shock as the farmer. Barrels of asphalt damaged by rocket attack, April 1969 . These Vietnam War photos taken by U.S. Army photographers reveal a side of the conflict that few people have ever seen. You FNGs 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. Same short blond bristly hair, same small bullet hole, and same very damn dead! There was outgoing mortar rounds and incoming. It started raining Saturday June1st and rained continuously until Wednesday morning but that didn't slow down work any. It was where the French first landed in the 19th Century in their quest to control the area and where . Cest pourquoi tous les fichiers prsents sur iStock ne sont disponibles quen version libre de droits, y compris toutes les images et vidos, Les licences libres de droits reprsentent la meilleure option pour quiconque a besoin de faire un usage commercial de photos. Military Wiki is a FANDOM Lifestyle Community. We stopped work and watched. I'm sorry my last letter to you was so abruptly ended, but I figured I'd best get it sent, otherwise you'd still be waiting. Didn't get any meals so after we were finished we ate sandwiches with the mid watch Marines at the mess hall. I had to pick up a box of those little "letter balls" for IMB Selectric typewriters from Camp Tien Sha and from there, "fight" my way all the way to China Beach. Nights in Vietnam were uncomfortable at best. The Marine on the left was blond and looked like a California surfer.He to had been shot in the back of the head. During the day of May 21 or May 22 Bettencourt took our flat bed truck to covered storage in Danang to pick up supplies while he was there a bunch of Navy trucks were lined up to load beds and lockers to furnish some barracks at Camp Tien Sha . and I was just finishing up the door. Now I know where Barbee is but where is Babyson? The Marines in that ambush had fired on me to scare me because they thought I was the duty officer making the rounds. MOS. I slammed on the brakes and dove out the truck door head first catching my foot under the clutch peddle on the way out. Clayton Beerworth and I were working on major repairs there by 0600 and the Mess hall was in operation more or less by that evening although it took a couple more days to get it up to 100% . The number of rockets are probably plus or minus a couple rockets. I believe we also tied him around the waist. My very first He got in line and they loaded his truck with beds, lots of beds. On May 15 I had finished 6 or 8 escape doors. After the little girl died I never went back to the clinic. The ESSO fuel plant from the north east side where we were snorkeling. iwas in the 1097th med boat co. dongtam,vietnam 1968 towed 3rd 34th artery barges up down the canels moble riverine force 9th inf divion, caption wild was incharge I was a certified SCUBA diver. There hours were 0800 to1700 so it was impossible for me to go. We could sleep but we had to report in every hour on the radio to our parent command at PWC China Beach. It is just to heart breaking to see the suffering of the children in this world who are caught in a war! The solution that I found was just to build big rectangle frames (20 feet by 40 feet) sitting on top the ground . In July 1966 the "Bridge Cargo Ramp" (160307N 1081352E / 16.052N 108.231E / 16.052; 108.231) began operations increasing NSA's supply capability. Book description. The cot had a broken leg so I had to prop it up with a sand bag and it was missing one end piece so it just wanted to fold up on me when I laid on it. Beddoe. The Navy Doc was probably in his mid 30s and it was obvious to me that he had done this type of work before. uniform. This is the poem I wrote about the little girl who died from gangrene. ), and on the day, before I was to leave, I hitched a ride headed to Camp Tien Sha on the east side of Da Nang where I was to be processed out. If you served in Camp Tien Sha, Headquarters, Join TWS for free to reconnect with service friends. 11/03/70 - John D. Shewmake Sr., SFC, Adona, AR. [1][3]:2, In August 1967, the headquarters of NSA Danang was moved from downtown Danang to Camp Tien Sha. Long , long ago, far, far away on the other side of the Coate would send dog food care packages to Judy. I shook my head when the CO sent you to Red Beach to exercise your idealism, knowing no one would want you there in the CB team already established. The rocket attacks after that the would be on target! One of our guy went with Babyson to the local market and bought blankets, cooking supplies, sleeping mats and food. I went back to my cubicle crawled into bed, ending my LCM is up to port side of barracks craft. Camp Tien Sha, Da Nang Camp Tieu Khu, Binh Duong Province Camp John R. Tine, Kien Phong Province Torello . Les nouveaux clients peuvent tlcharger cette image en profitant de notre offre dessai gratuit sans engagement. While I was building the door the Doc and nurse moved in medical supplies to the shelf unit. We took 2 122mm rockets about where the crates are. I was at Camp Tien Sha from June '69 until Feb '70. 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. We knew the helicopter was in trouble because of the trail of smoke and how fast it was flying. All of the rounds hit in swamp area between the main base and FLC command building . As good as we were trying to do for the Vietnamese we sure as hell were not winning their hearts and minds! If there was any heavy weather and to many buffer pads were jumping out I would have to go back to the hooch and roust out a work crew. Any damage at FLC was my teams responsibility to asses , clean up and repair or replace so I had direct involvement in all rocket and mortar attacks at FLC. As soon as they caught on they would take on that task and I would move on to the next. The flares were often still burning when they hit the ground. Our office was up stairs. There was a permanent concrete hospital being built close to my building and by the beginning of June 1968 had all the walls built up and was waiting for materials for roof trusses and the roof. a lot in Vietnam. Pett George my ex UDT instructor allowed me to go through the class early being as how my older brother Jay and my Dad were going through the class too. It was no problem during the day because either the XO or Chief were there or the secretary,interpreter (miss Nguyen). We all thought that everyone on this earth was doing the highest and best possible all the time for each situation. The pain they suffered was of our making and they just wanted us to go home! BU3 Hovanec expired July 7, 1969 in Thua Thien, South Vietnam. One night I was called out for some lights on the west perimeter. Camp Tien Sha Vietnam 1968. nstar48. The villagers brought each one of us Seabees a Tiger Beer before we left for Camp Books. Yes, everyone called him soccer ball head ! The Chief did manage to get bedding (Ha,Ha) I got one bed sheet and one pillow case. ( the rules for Camp Books were that to be off base you had to have a weapon). Next thing I realize he has a hold on my sleeve. He lets fly with 8 or 10 rounds then he is done for the day. Only 364 more days to go! whatever you say Mr. The events highlighted in yellow directly affected me. It was a long miserable cold 12 hour night. Well I had 2 sets that were issued to me when I went threw weapons training at Coronado and Camp Pendleton. What amazed me was by brakefast time at 0530 the marines had already set up a field mess trailer out side the mess hall and were serving breakfast. The little girl was fusing and didn't want to leave the nurse so it took a little effort to hand her off to me . 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. In Feb 1973, evacuated Danang to San Miguel . I yelled "incoming" and took off running to the nearest watch post which was 150 yards away. 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). Photo libre de droit de Camp Tien Sha banque d'images et plus d'images libres de droit de Vietnam - Vietnam, Base militaire, 1968. By 1969 I was and RM3 in the White Elephant (an old French Fort in downtown Da Nang) where the commanding Admiral was located. [3]:33, In mid-October 1968 the Deep Water Pier complex (160712N 1081250E / 16.12N 108.214E / 16.12; 108.214) on the Tien Sha peninsula was completed, beginning operations in September 1968. 30 on it. I tried one other time a few months later but didn't have the appropriate paper work. Well I had 11 months to go and it was going to be a very long 11 months ! I went out and sat on my toolbox and thought about what I had just experienced. loading the LSTs and loading onto trucks. This was a real live human! I hated that phone, radio, air conditioning and black coffee! All terrain forklifts would scurry back and forth off . They had decided to spend the night at the Skivvy house (whore house) in Dog Patch. Here are the Activity reports for May 1968 for the Marines in my AO (area of operation) . 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. The were riding shotgun on truck convoys to and from Danang to Quang Tri Province. very first day of war. I can still hear the snip of the scissors as the Doc cut away the flesh. It was creepy doing that trip to the causeway. Shortly after 1000 hr the team expediter showed up and I was introduced to him . I even passed an enlisted sailor with a can of white paint and he was Camp Haskins, Da Nang, Vietnam, served as headquarters of the 30th Naval Construction Regiment, who exercised operational control of Seabee units deployed to Vietnam. 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