I had plenty of time to take it all in and it was very UN-nerving. Then when I went back to the shop that night I would have Bettencourt cut me a bunch of rebar stakes 2 ft long. We got danger close rockets in that area often. I think that maybe it was a way to help get my thoughts together, write the event down and then move on. Whatever, I was very There was about a weeks over lap so the knew Chief could learn his job! I got my NAUI Scuba diving cerification in July 1966. "driving deprived" at the time and any time I had access to a Vietnam Veterans Home Page But the better This building was about 24 ft wide and 200 feet long and was a two story building. this pic sure isn't it, at least heads all in an area I'd call around any old charts, photos or drawings of the PTF My Vietnam war was a very small place camp tien sha danang, vietnam 1968 - seven10solutions.com I was able to remain calm and under control and do what ever he told me but inside I was on the edge of losing it! Cn Th Base Camp. the correctly identified enlisted to my new cubicle and dressed in my slightly used green utility working He had a little Vietnamese kid with him about 8 years old. and drop their bow ramps. Get those Fucking Gooks away from that Damn trailer". This is the day I started my real job. It was what those I have nothing but respect for those that were. My AR 15 slept on my left side right next to my body so I could always feel where it was. The next weekend I asked about the farmer ? Here is a poem that I wrote about the helicopter. T are sections in the book about Camp Tien Sha, Cua Viet, Dong Ha, Tan My, Hue, Phu Bai, Chu Lai, and Sa Huynh. CD-ROM, but it didn't provide any new The iStock design is a trademark of iStockphoto LP. Thursday morning we stripped the forms and started building the framing of the first building. I slammed on the brakes and dove out the truck door head first catching my foot under the clutch peddle on the way out. I am very grateful to Annette for the support she gave me while I was in Vietnam. didnt get shot at and we safely landed and taxied off the run way. You FNGs get off the plane and fall in over there. Charles R. Smith . It was to late to get him settled in because we were so incredibly busy with rocket attack damage. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. pilot said that was to avoid being shot at by the VC. It became the headquarters for all U.S. Well I don't know how much of an impression that left on me but these guys getting killed in the Skivvy house got my attention ! This is the near miss at our Post office. care of the base. Camp Tien Sha | Military Wiki | Fandom I was later assigned to the Monkey Mountain Patrol. This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Naval History and Heritage Command. Vietnam veterans, age 60+, American. U.S. MARINES IN VIETNAM THE DEFINING YEAR 1968. by. kms.) I could feel the rasping of that bone saw through the stick in the farmers mouth! perceived attacks. Danang List - The Mobile Riverine Force Association - MRFA Nice history lesson for me. Barrels of asphalt damaged by rocket attack, April 1969, Camp Tien Sha Annex, Ray Norton. Sure. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! very first day of war. Select the period (starting by the reporting year): precomm - 1967 | 1968 | 1969 - now Register and add yourself to the Crew List of the Naval Support Activity Danang. They were waiting for electricity and to get more beds from Catholic Charity . The map I sent you is how I remember that head has about the lightest colored The memory of this little girl and the events at the Children's hospital are the reason I never had children of my own. Detachment Chu Lai - 1964 - 1971. I suppose that I needed that time alone to recover from the amputation! You have destroyed my country and my family! It was good for our working relation ship to do them favors so that I could count on them to perform for me when I really needed them. No. ! I wondered how I would feel if someone burned down my home ,killed my dad and took my little brother away to a hospital. About a mile out the crew started kicking boxes out the doors. I was in country from June 1969 to June 1970. Danang was handling more tonnage than the port of Baltimore at the time. I feel strongly about it and love learning more on this topic.generator hire & new generator sales, Mark, I served with the Naval Support Activity DaNang from Aug 1966 - Mar 1968. Report an offensive or inappropriate entry. The rocket attacks after that the would be on target! configured jeep. History U.S. Pretty big load for I didn't realize at the time that the intended target was me and the generators. 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. because of all the flares in the mountains next to the base. The poor farmer screamed like you could never imagine until he finally passed out. Book cover type. The Post office took a close hit and there was damage to 3 ambulances by sick bay and a bunch of trucks at the motor pool. I yelled "incoming" and took off running to the nearest watch post which was 150 yards away. hair cutting all my time there aside ( the rules for Camp Books were that to be off base you had to have a weapon). I think he may have had scrambled brains to go with his stitched up head . The basis I jumped into the fighting hole beside the post and yelled at the Marines there "holy shit some one is shooting at me!" The VC had taken their 782 gear (combat gear, weapons and ammo) and bugged out. I also made life long friends. ( We called the Army Republic Of Vietnam police white mice because they were small, wore white helmets white web belts, white pistol holsters and white spats.) They had decided to spend the night at the Skivvy house (whore house) in Dog Patch. It might be inaccurate in some details, suffice to say, I My work hours were 0600 to 1800 which made it impossible to use any of the base services! Mark Harms reporting for duty! Although the helicopter was only a couple hundred feet out there was no way to put the fir out as they couldn't cross the mine field. Paperback. Naval Support Activity Danang or NSA Danang was a United States Navy logistics support organization located in Danang, South Vietnam active from October 1965 to April 1972. At first it was because every thing was so knew and exciting. Vietnam War Photos | Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 1122 Camp Tien Sha Vietnam 1968, viewed from Monkey Mountain. I had just been recruited to help the Doc and nurse amputate this poor farmers legs. Detachment Dong Ha - 1967 - 1970. I am sure this little girl will be my last thought when I punch out from this world. It's claim to fame was that it had a black prostitute. Drive out the back gate and about 2 miles to the Navy Seabee base. The tents were on the right. The sound had carried down the valley making it sound very close, then it would die down then get loud again, very strange how the sound bounced around the walls of the valley. You are a builder so Beerworth or Yost will be who you report too." It had 4 windows so I went to the window for H. I handed the clerk my records pack. "I'm at camp Tien Sha at Da Nang now." - Letters from Vietnam While my guys were working I was talking to the Gunny in the hut. The three strong backs that I was to build for 7th motors was put on hold. VIETNAM WAR 1968-1969 by Richard Calmes - PBase There were other things to screw up the nights. It seemed a bit strange to see everything so neat and tidy when Vietnam War Home Movies Tien Sha & Da Nang 1969 ammo dump - YouTube I was given our 2 new carpenters to help with the concrete pour, 3rd class builder Calabresy and builder CN Craig Taylor. The Marines slept 12 to 14 men in a hootch. I have 'issues' from that crap hole as well.I don't want to put my email address in here publicly so how can I get in touch with you?Ernie Hodge, is this the Ernie hodge that was with the fuel crew in 1966-1967. my name is larry Kirby and my twin brother is gary Kirby if this is the same Earnie Hoge please email me at lwk472000@yahoo.vom. This was a real live human! "personal" shower head and keeping Those care packages and her letters help keep me going when ever times got really tough! What ever it was we were done by shortly after 1600 hr. . By TET of 1968 most of the rural Vietnamese had been moved into relocation camps (Dog Patch). Guard shacks along the pipe line to the ESSO fuel plant, Oil Tanker off loading at the ESSO fuel plant. It was just after 1700 so I was good. We took several trucks and picked up Pham Ba and Babyson outside the gate and headed down the road. I can find no official reports on that rocket attack and have to assume nobody bothered to make a report because the rounds hit in the swamp between the main body of Camp Books and the Force Logistics Command section. [4] NSA Danang originally operated from a commercial pier on the city side of the Hn River and this "Museum Ramp" (.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}160300N 1081328E / 16.05N 108.2245E / 16.05; 108.2245) near the Cham Museum began operation in November 1965 off-loading Landing Craft Utility (LCUs) and LSTs. On Tuesday May 14 I finished my hooch and settled into the corner right inside the door. identified as "enlisted head." Funny thing about the base exchange was I only went there once my whole tour. Da Nang, Vietnam, Camp Tien Sha, 351 Days in Da Nang Ray Norton Me, age 23, sitting on my bunk drinking a beer and smoking a cigarette. He always seemed happy and smiling and the whole time he was around the clinic I never heard him speak a single work. The wounded man was the Mess Sargent who was the only one at the mess hall at the time. Detachment Hue - 1965 - 1970. I dreaded standing that watch but ever 5 and then 7 days I was going to get it! A refugee family was living in a lean too in Dog Patch south . Apart from some shopping highlights and historical sights, the main reason for most travelers staying here is its proximity to the well-known My Khe Beach, Lang Co Beach, Hoi An and My Son. half, aside from the times that I Chapel? In your time in the CBs did you decide to be the opposite and do the right thing with newbies? The United States used it as a major base during the Vietnam War (1959-1975), stationing Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marine units there. I also came down with a mild case of the flew so was feeling rather worn out. Provinces. The Doc trimmed all the skin and muscle nice and neat adding clamps (hemostats) as he went. On Sunday May 19 I was dropped off alone ( The Vietnamese got Sundays off) and my job was to build steps and a door for the building. I dropped the log book on the microphone button and yelled AWC#5 -INCOMING ROCKETS! It didn't take long to get out of bed when the first rocket struck nearby. Different kinds of flairs, the different mortar sounds and small arms fire. I went to the "motor pool" at least Camp Horn - Wikipedia Some of the rocket attacks were on Camp Books (FLC) . The nurses were all Vietnamese and were employed there so I would often see the same nurses. IN VIETNAM. [4]:33, Logistic vessels under the control of NSA Danang included Landing Craft Mechanized (LCM 3 & LCM 6) and LCU landing craft; harbor utility craft (YFU); small harbor tugs (YTL); open lighters (YC); refrigerated barges (YFRN); Army craft; and a refrigerator ship. It started raining Saturday June1st and rained continuously until Wednesday morning but that didn't slow down work any. not leaving a big enough tip. There were no boat parts in supply I cried to myself on the way back to the base. They were simply ghettos with poor sanitation , communal water supply, no roads or electricity. There was a bunker there. blocked. Drawing sat idle. Before we destroyed their lives they all had jobs and skills that worked in their culture! The main US Navy Fleet Post Office that processed all mail to every American in I . Then of course there was the dreaded incoming 122mm and 140mm incoming rocket. Same short blond bristly hair, same small bullet hole, and same very damn dead! Well guess what ? If you were to divide Camp Fay into Camp Tien Sha, Headquarters - Navy Unit Directory - Together We Served That night at the mess hall it was, " did you hear about the 2 grunt that got shot and killed at the Skivvy house last night"! In this pic the enlisted We weren't expecting any new men and we don't have the time to train you. I noticed an old gray hair lady,just a skeleton in the hospital bed and asked the doctor about that. Soon we came to the bridge across the Han River. At the base of Monkey mountain was Camp Tien Sha, the main Navy base. During the first half of his in-country tour, Norton made the best of a boring and life- consuming job as a Tien Sha Peninsula Security Division guard. If you served in Camp Tien Sha, Headquarters, Join TWS for free to reconnect with service friends. We had to give Puppy away as we were not even supposed to have a dog. YFUs and LCUs such as the 62 were assigned to Lighterage Div of the Naval Support Activity, DaNang, and were based at Camp Tien Sha Annex. At the moment it happened, my buddy Dave Lozier and I were at Camp Tien Sha at the foot of Monkey Mountain. Naval Support in I Corps - 1968: US Naval Support Activity DaNang Coate would send dog food care packages to Judy. Made a very good impression on me, I didn't even consider it my whole time in Vietnam ! The other important thing we had to do was to check the Red Beach causeway at 2400 hr. Anniversary story of his trip back I stood there wondering how I was going to drive wood stakes into that hard ground. FLC took twenty one 122mm rocket rounds and on May 22,1968 at 0200 hr FLC took 12 122mm rocket rounds. After the bones were cut the Doc tied off all the bleeders and removed the hemostats . I was to hear FNG at Camp Fay. called to general quarters was in I don't painting rocks. As tired as I was I never got much sleep. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Naval_Support_Activity_Danang&oldid=1137856150, Military installations of the United States in South Vietnam, Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Naval History & Heritage Command, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 6 February 2023, at 20:12. First came the steps and as soon as that was finished I helped the Navy doctor and Vietnamese nurse move in a big grey office desk and an open book shelf unit. the bus to Camp Tien Sha (the one with chicken wiure on the windows) That's danger close to the shop! The following information was emailed in to Chief then showed me the mess hall and walked me down to the Seabee hooch's. I was shocked when he told me she was only 15 years old! In July 1966 the "Bridge Cargo Ramp" (160307N 1081352E / 16.052N 108.231E / 16.052; 108.231) began operations increasing NSA's supply capability. I think the thing that I finished the shower and got The It was very clear that they did not want a FNG getting in their way. I sure didn't void ( very much reminds me of cutting up chickens at butchering time). Marine guns up to the DMZ, we looked like shoe boxes eith long gun I actually took the class in 1965 but at that time you had to be 18 years old to get a Scuba Certification. DaNang aerial photograph It was reported in an Email that National Geographic Magazine somewhere between Jan. 1967 and June 1968 had an aerial photograph of DaNang with enough detail to get the CIA uptight. This is the inside of our shop.The office was upstairs and to the left. shoes" and one of the Vietnamese I took this photofrom the stern of YFU 80 which was docked at SCRF, looking across Da Nang harbor at sunset. When I found out about that I went with Bet to talk to that officer. configuration it would hold about 10 people. This is my Poem about the farmer who stepped on the mine. Statewide Water Diversion and Fish Passage Coordinator (Senior Let me tell you that wasn't fun at all. of the DaNang Military Complex, One of through the base that would allow me to do "hot laps" as long as no As ship demand for potable intensified at NSA Danang, on page 82 of COMNAVFORV Monthly Summary May 1968, A new dam on Monkey Mountain was completed and an effort was begun to store as much water as possible in this 1,900,000 gallon storage site. Khoi Tran and Hong Th Hin faved this 3,723 views 2 faves 0 comments Taken on March 17, 2017 Some rights reserved Nikon SUPER COOLSCAN 9000 ED by the time they got to us AWC# 5 we would be awake (hopefully) and report in. We The best attractions in Da Nang include a good mix of centuries-old pagodas, French colonial buildings, as well as tranquil beaches with clear blue waters, and verdant national parks. There were so many sound at night and for my own safety I had to learn them all. little early to get back in school and finish my degree. and created an overlay of the changes to the harbor, which was
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