Vietnam Veterans Day

[Beleg]

Welcome Home, brothers! Today is Vietnam Veterans Day. Our numbers were once in the millions but now we’re down to the tens of thousands. Remember our POW/MIA that never made back. 1st Signal Brigade, Long Binh 71/72.

[Quackerbox]

Never forget those who didn't make it back

[Chew]

Thanks for the reminder, sir. Much respect for the Vietnam Veterans. My dad was drafted and served as a medic over there. He was wounded in body and spirit.

[Beleg]

Chew, I wish I knew your dad, he went above and beyond for his soldiers and the civilians in his area. May he Rest In Peace. Thanks for sharing.

[Froggy]

Co. D 2/5th Inf. 1st Air Cavalry. June 26, 1970, 9:40am we stumbled onto a cache in Cambodia after being pinned down for three days. One 40' X 40' camouflaged stack was the 1st of 7 caches.

Below is the readout on the daily report on what we found.
Cache found by D Co:

874 82mm, 63 85mm, 535 57mm, 10,428 14.5 cal rounds,106680 30 cal rounds, 1932 B-40, 92 75mm, 144 50mm, 52 field phones, 140 mm, 18,880 51 cal rds, 332,820 AK47 rds, 1,672 37mm, 6 B-41, 1,380,000 ft time fuse, 101 120mm, 2700 pull fuse, 4 miles commo wire, 1,281lbs c-4, 40 lbs TNT, 115 machetes, 60 picks, 60 bolt cutters, 550 hand saws, 15,000 blasting caps, 163 SKS rifles. 6 mine detectors, 2x75RR, 18x51 cal cartridges, 45 cases plastic explosives, 216 Anti tank chicoms, 5 cases B-40 charges, 5 scopes, 2 bolt cutters, 24 85mm rr rounds, 182 mm tube, 31 30 cal machine guns, 20 30 cal barrels.

My squad. I'm the only one still above ground.

[Greenheadless]

Hats off to those who served, especially the ones who paid the ultimate sacrifice.

[K. Lane]

08 March 1965 my old man was an RTO in one of the two Marine Corps infantry battalions with the 9th MEB that landed at DaNang after the Gulf of Tonkin incident. He spent his 13 months patrolling around and defending the DaNang airbase. He is 82 years old now and has, only in recent years, began to open up and talk about his experiences.

[dustoffer]

Flew out of Chu Lai for a bit—and Duc Pho was one of our field sites where we kept a bird ready and waiting.

[Aggiebush]

My uncle was on the flight deck on the Corral Sea and FIL spent most of his time on a destroyer protecting the carriers. God bless those who served and those who didn’t make it home.

[ThisLadyHunts]

Thanks for the reminder, sir. Much respect for the Vietnam Veterans. My dad was drafted and served as a medic over there. He was wounded in body and spirit.

A perfect example of a hero disguised as an everyday man who walks stoically among us.

[ThisLadyHunts]

Co. D 2/5th Inf. 1st Air Cavalry. June 26, 1970, 9:40am we stumbled onto a cache in Cambodia after being pinned down for three days. One 40' X 40' camouflaged stack was the 1st of 7 caches.

Below is the readout on the daily report on what we found.
Cache found by D Co:

874 82mm, 63 85mm, 535 57mm, 10,428 14.5 cal rounds,106680 30 cal rounds, 1932 B-40, 92 75mm, 144 50mm, 52 field phones, 140 mm, 18,880 51 cal rds, 332,820 AK47 rds, 1,672 37mm, 6 B-41, 1,380,000 ft time fuse, 101 120mm, 2700 pull fuse, 4 miles commo wire, 1,281lbs c-4, 40 lbs TNT, 115 machetes, 60 picks, 60 bolt cutters, 550 hand saws, 15,000 blasting caps, 163 SKS rifles. 6 mine detectors, 2x75RR, 18x51 cal cartridges, 45 cases plastic explosives, 216 Anti tank chicoms, 5 cases B-40 charges, 5 scopes, 2 bolt cutters, 24 85mm rr rounds, 182 mm tube, 31 30 cal machine guns, 20 30 cal barrels.

My squad. I'm the only one still above ground.

Nice looking young American men. That you are the only one still above ground, OP, is a sobering thought and a serves as a reminder that this country paid too high a price for its participation in a war that, by design, we were never going to win.

[White Falcon]

Thanks for our service.

[TexasTK]

Thanks to all that served to protect our freedom. Heroes in every sense of the word.

[dosrobles]

Thank you

[Oleman]

A year supporting the "Antique Airlines" EW (Electric Warfare) unit in VN.. 4 1/2 years in the Far East in various countries supporting the "conflict".