In these years, U.S. Army Vietnam alone retrograded over 671,000 short tons of supplies. Level the frames and tie them to the stakes and I would have my concrete forms complete. Well damn right I was scared. Download this Camp Tien Sha photo now. Soon we arrived at our destination, Camp Tien Sha Vietnam, an old French encampment that had been converted by the Sea Bees into our base camp. Coate would send dog food care packages to Judy. Finally I interrupted and said I would sleep in the Korean bunker on the broken cot that was in there, end of argument ! This article incorporatespublic domain material from websites or documents of the Naval History and Heritage Command. Price which includes postage (Media Mail) and insurance. I pretty much walked the whole base then back to the EM club for a cold beer Very close now and it was clear that they weren't going to make it over the hurricane fence at the perimeter. It had been a very busy month with a lot of things happening. To know all the different sounds was to be able to read what was happening at night and how safe I was. the headquarters of NSA Danang was moved from downtown Danang to Camp Tien Sha. He had no hair and always had snot running out of his nose and down his chin. I believe we also tied him around the waist. There was one thing that bothered me about Tien Sha. 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 . Not all the time but sometimes . Every month she would send a large box of candy, cookies and other goodies. 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. and to listen to music. I was shocked when he told me she was only 15 years old! The wounded man was the Mess Sargent who was the only one at the mess hall at the time. The feet just kind of hanging by muscle and skin. 6320 Selago Drive. When we got there the doc wanted to show us around. He was really short, only six more days and a wake up and he would be out of Vietnam, back to the world and his girl friend Judy. Photo libre de droit de Camp Tien Sha banque d'images et plus d'images libres de droit de Vietnam - Vietnam, Base militaire, 1968. Cest pourquoi tous les fichiers proposs sur iStock, quil sagisse dune, Des publicits sur les rseaux sociaux aux panneaux daffichage, en passant par les prsentations PowerPoint et longs mtrages, vous aurez la libert de modifier, redimensionner et personnaliser tous les fichiers sur iStock, y compris toutes les images et vidos, dessins Humoristiques et Bandes dessines, Notices lgales et protection de la vie prive. We also had a couple of American Philco Ford teachers. It was kind of like the work orders I got. It became the headquarters for all U.S. painting rocks. Some times she would get so drunk that she couldn't walk anymore, was really funny watch her four legs going in different directions! Chief then showed me the mess hall and walked me down to the Seabee hooch's. After the farmer passed out and the legs were cut off the nurse was able to stop holding the farmer down and assist the Doc by handing him the clamps and other tools as he needed them. Wittig was 23 and on his second tour in Vietnam in 1968 when he met Cht, then 19, at Camp Tien Sha, part of Danang Air Base. side was a area called Bridge Ramp which was where the Navy LSTs would pull in ( 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.) As he cut them off he threw them in the corner beside the shelf and I can remember how strange they looked leaning against the wall! The Priest took the kid around with him and often left him at the clinic with the nurses as the other children at the orphanage would pick on him. Ray Norton. The new pier facility allowed deep-draft ocean-going vessels to unload cargo directly onto . Map of the Vietnam War. Our electricians went to wire up the building for electricity. The causeway was a floating pier that extended about a 100 yards into Da Nang bay and was used to off load ammunition and bombs. Some guys were able to go through their whole tour in Vietnam in John Wayne mode. Donald is buried at Holy Trinity Church Cemetery, Hopelawn, NJ. 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. I think that maybe it was a way to help get my thoughts together, write the event down and then move on. Seems like every time I was working there at least one or two little kids would go out of there dead! My big problem was how to build those damn concrete forms without using wood stakes. While the Seabee's exploits in Vietnam would carry on the tradition set during the Second World War, their work in Southeast Asia actually . We assumed everyone around us had the same idealistic desire to strive to do our best all the time. I didn't realize at the time that the intended target was me and the generators. Great link for in-country Vietnam vets, or those curious about the Vietnam War. This was a Sunday afternoon BBQ about 1800 hr. Some of the women were in their early twenties, so there is still hope. 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. 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. . If it had detonated when it hit the ventilator we both would have been killed! [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. Right at daybreak back in '69, I was sent on a dangerous mission in Danang. It turned 90 degrees to the right and touched down between two rows of concertina wire in the middle of the perimeter. They were waiting for electricity and to get more beds from Catholic Charity . Well sure I heard about it and even saw them down at 1st MPs. that's one of our generators upper left. It is very likely this was were the Marines were killed . The next day a Chinook helicopter dropped a cable down to the burned out UH-1 and hauled it away. All in the name of saving them from Communism. I went back to my cubicle crawled into bed, ending my Boy life was improving a lot. Coate was not there to know about Puppy. LCU-63 * MI Donations for May. They were all in alignment with our generators. At that time the base fir truck showed up. There was about a weeks over lap so the knew Chief could learn his job! 2021/09/07 Cpl. When I asked the Priest what happened to the kid he said he didn't know, the kid was at the orphanage when he took over. 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. 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). It was kind of a taste of what we would get when the monsoons came in September. It was a horrifying thing to watch. Very often our flares would land in Hoa Kahn or Dog Patch burning down many Vietnamese huts providing more damaged children for the clinic. My body was always waiting to react. I was in Danang less than a month when the Vietcong used rockets to attack the Danang Air Base for the first time in the war, on the morning of February 27. Port bow of the barracks craft shows no. 3. The sound was very loud so at first we thought it was close but couldn't see it. The new wood frame building that I did was behind the camera. It must have been about 1100 hr. So my hooch would now have 5 of us. The take-in was the same as you wrote. side was a barge with a sign. I thought the clinic was for children. All terrain forklifts would scurry back and forth off The memory of this little girl and the events at the Children's hospital are the reason I never had children of my own. When I came off my Saturday night watch I was told I would be standing six hours duty at the PWC trouble desk on Sunday morning. Short EM3 Camp Tien Sha Fire Department. From 1800 hours until 0600 we had to have some one stand watch. I dont know a damn thing so 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. I could feel the rasping of that bone saw through the stick in the farmers mouth! I think he may have had scrambled brains to go with his stitched up head . The Marines slept 12 to 14 men in a hootch. It was at maximum power and flying very fast. The truck dropped us at the work sight. 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. Both of his legs had been pretty much blown off. The next work order I got for there I gave it to Beerworth and told him I would not work there any more! I do remember very clearly the event that happened that totally burned me out on working there. On the evening of May 23 we got a knew man in, Karl Voiles. Detachment Dong Ha - 1967 - 1970. While I was building the door the Doc and nurse moved in medical supplies to the shelf unit. I went out and sat on my toolbox and thought about what I had just experienced. Naval Communication Facility. BBC News, Da Nang, Vietnam. 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 . Late in the day we had built them a nice hootch and had them moved in. This is our new Chief Builder. She would be down on her hands and knees crying and waling. Re: Vietnam Nam vet wants to see war sites. Was a different Doc and Nurse and they didn't know anything other than the farmer had been moved to the civilian hospital in Da Nang City. Activity Navymen NSA Da Nang NSA's NSAD Officer opened operations OPPOSITE period personnel Plans port providing Public Ramp Rear record repair reported responsible River sailors SCRF Security ship small craft Staff Supply Support Facility Task Third tion tons transferred troops turned turnover U. When Puppy was big enough our secretary, interpreter Miss Nguyen took Puppy home with her to Danang. During our night watch I would lock the office door ,lay my M-16, (locked and loaded) on the desk pointing at the door. I would share it with my team mates but a lot of it I gave to the Vietnamese children at the Clinic or whenever I worked off base. Dock area at Da Nang harbor. He had a little Vietnamese kid with him about 8 years old. I even passed an enlisted sailor with a can of white paint and he was During Vietnam war - Evac. The first half of my year in Vietnam (1967) I was stationed at the large U. S. base in Danang. ( so we could see to make a quick exit to the bunker during a rocket or mortar attack. You FNGs This was a real live human! You have destroyed my country and my family! on 6 Oct 1972 . Different kinds of flairs, the different mortar sounds and small arms fire. All of the workers that worked for us were dislocated Vietnamese and us putting them to work was an attempt to keep their economy rolling. At NSA Camp Tien Sha, an enlisted men's club was constructed. On Friday May 17 I was sent out on another job. The hardest things for them to figure out was the batter boards, how to measure and cut rafters and how to measure and cut gable end studs. History [ edit ] Following the initial landing of Marines in South Vietnam on 8 March 1965, the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade (9th MEB) established their headquarters in an old French Army compound on the western edge of Da Nang Air Base . 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. Over time that changed, I didn't want to know any newbies! VVA's goals . (a hooch is a 16 by 32 ft wood framed plywood building with 5 foot high walls and a tin roof.) Bruce Moore says he first returned from a 13-month stint in the Vietnam War to a "poor response." "We were at Norton Air Force Base. Then I started paying more attention. A sad day because we were no longer a Seabee Team ! The 53rd had five (5) CO's from 1942 through 1946. . We went through the gate, down Main Street, took a left and stopped in front of a small building that looked like a hamburger stand. Inside of that trailer, face down were 2 dead Marines. I just haven't had time for any more. By July 1968 NSA Danang handled 350,000 tons of cargo each month for the . Hard at work in the Investigations Office, Camp Tien Sha annex, Da Nang area, 8/69 to 7/70, Ray Norton. There were Seabees, Korean Philco Ford, Vietnamese all working like mad . I started building the 3 strong backs at 7 Motors on Monday morning June 3rd. I hated that phone, radio, air conditioning and black coffee! Coate gave me two sets of shorts and short sleeve shirts. Hard bound with blue cover and full color replica of the U.S. Just keep on working in the rain. There was always something interesting to watch at Camp Books. Our generators were not even running yet so I heard the rocket coming in. went by (so slowly! They had been covered with poncho liners but they had blown off. Familiar Places. Did he live or die? Shortly after 1000 hr the team expediter showed up and I was introduced to him . Barbee was very well liked by the labor crew. 2023 iStockphoto LP. I would have to wait a few more days for that to start. Book description. With tears in my eyes I told the guard that I had been helping the doc at the children's clinic and he could take his fucking travel chit and shove it up his ass! Another thing that screwed up the night for us was our night radio, phone watch, it was a real bitch ! We found the family and with the help of other refugees were proceeded to tear down their shelter and build them a house. I took my time cooling myself off in that shower then went The day we put up our sign . Mostly I was just kind of mentally numb. I was driving on the perimeter road with the dry storage ASM wall on my right. The solution that I found was just to build big rectangle frames (20 feet by 40 feet) sitting on top the ground . Detachment Chu Lai - 1964 - 1971. In mid-October 1968 the Deep Water Pier complex (16.12N 108.214E) on the Tien Sha peninsula was completed, beginning operations in September 1968. I suppose we had a good conversation but don't have a clue of what. Spent many watches all over the city of Da Nang. It was creepy doing that trip to the causeway. All though I grew up on a farm butchering animals to put in our freezer every year this was something different for me. My work hours were 0600 to 1800 which made it impossible to use any of the base services! She was especially friendly with our hooch mama-son. The next weekend I asked about the farmer ? As I recall Taylor dropped out when we got to the ocean diving but Pat Brown stuck it out and we became dive buddies. So that's what I did, went back to work. 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. The Seabee construction crews he is referring to was my crew. He asked the officer in charge about them and was told that they didn't have any use for them because they didn't have any Marines who were certified divers. It really, really broke my heart! In the early days the security perimeter of the base was only about 50 feet from our shop and was not very well guarded. The Seabee team had 8 junior men in one hootch and 4 senior men in the second hootch. Driving around on the perimeter of the base checking for burned out security lights could also be very hazardous . We had to give Puppy away as we were not even supposed to have a dog. I couldn't grasp what was going on at the time. He expired nine days later. The Brief. Back at the hootch the Seabees got in a major debate about where to put me. Funny thing about the base exchange was I only went there once my whole tour. . (Actually, I rode in a truck.) At first it was because every thing was so knew and exciting. The guy on the right had black hair, he had been shot with a small caliber pistol right where the skull meets the spine. I joined the Navy Reserve and went to . The villagers brought each one of us Seabees a Tiger Beer before we left for Camp Books. Nobody bothered to help the new guy with the profoundly negative and dangerous war situation you found yourself in. Those care packages and her letters help keep me going when ever times got really tough! I took all the materials that I thought I would need to build the cement forms for my strong backs. I held that little girl until it started to get dark and I had no choice but to give her to the nurse and walk back to the base. I arrived in Da Nang in June 1968. and drop their bow ramps. [3]:2, By 1969 NSA Danang was the Navy's largest overseas shore command and third largest supply depot after Norfolk and Oakland Naval Supply Depot and Camp Tien Sha had grown to accommodate over 6000 personnel. Supported COMSEC 705 (Camp Tien Sha), Operation Big Look (Da Nang) and USMC ground missions (1st Radio BN). Guard shacks along the pipe line to the ESSO fuel plant, Oil Tanker off loading at the ESSO fuel plant. Well I answered once about the FNGs. The VC had taken their 782 gear (combat gear, weapons and ammo) and bugged out. If one of the other bases in our AO got hit by mortars or rockets then our siren went off and we were on red alert which meant we had to role out with weapons, helmets,and flack jackets and man our posts. (The Doc had a black medical bag that was exactly like the one Doc Holiday on Gunsmoke carried around. 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 . Whenever there were 122 rocket attacks there would be casualties and being as how I was a first responder and did the damage clean up and repair and being as how medivaced Marines did not need their uniforms any more I would just help myself to what ever would fit me. She would throw dirt into the air and scratch at her face until it was bleeding , rubbing dirt into the cuts. [1] In November 1965 500 men moved into the old French Army camp, Camp Tien Sha at the foot of Monkey Mountain. It seemed a bit strange to see everything so neat and tidy when We took several trucks and picked up Pham Ba and Babyson outside the gate and headed down the road. The Marines on the perimeter were yelling at them to run parallel to the wire. I actually took the class in 1965 but at that time you had to be 18 years old to get a Scuba Certification. Ya, we continued our work and started building my hooch. line. The road was closed to civilian traffic at night so there would be no other vehicles on the road. He was laying on his back and we had tied his arms (wrists) to the legs on one end of the desk and then had tide his upper thighs to the other legs of the desk. It seems incredible that a thirsty, decorated . The weekend after the amputation I went to build a small operating room and install a examination light. Recent photo of Cheryl and me. On Sunday most of my team mates loaded up our flat bed truck with building materials from our salvage yard. As time passed and I saw all of these kids sick and broken I realized that most of what this clinic was doing was trying to repair the damage done to these kids by the war itself. Mostly I would just build and they would watch and fallow what I did. I was in country from June 1969 to June 1970. As soon as they caught on they would take on that task and I would move on to the next. Port side of APL-30 (Auxiliary Personnel Lighter) or barracks craft. The carpenter flat bed truck. That is the only time I had to get clothing issue. They were only a couple hundred yards away! 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. Another source for jungle fatigues was up at Camp Reasoner. That sure screwed with our sleep! APL-30 and dock at Da Nang harbor. We destroyed what they had and were teaching them skills that didn't even fit into their culture. En savoir plus sur les images libres de droits ou consulter la FAQ sur les photos. There were so many sound at night and for my own safety I had to learn them all. The Post office was about 75 yards from my hootch. We had devastated their economy and destroyed their infrastructure. Battalion was deployed to Danang, Vietnam from January, 1968 through September, 1968 and again from March, 1969 through November, 1969. While originally designed to be two volumes, it was decided that unity and cohesion required one book. There was a Marine listening ambush set up outside the perimeter in that area. Suddenly the helicopter went nose high and stopped going forward. Korean Engineer's I served with in Vietnam 1968 NSA Danang,Maintenace Control Division. Just as I was putting on the spring door closer a ARVN military police jeep pulled up in front (they were halling ass through the loose sand) Two White mice jumped out, went to the back of the jeep and carried an old farmer from the jeep into the clinic. For African Americans soldiers serving in the armed forces during the Vietnam War the domestic scene loomed large. The three strong backs that I was to build for 7th motors was put on hold. Had fun there, especially since I had to wear civilian clothes. . Then after thinking about it I realized how wrong I was. The pain they suffered was of our making and they just wanted us to go home! My barracks was an old French barracks at Camp Tien Sha near Da Nang. In November 1965, Marines moved into Camp Tien-Sha, an old French Army camp situated on the Tien-Sha Peninsula and illustrated near the top . Nang officers billeting ! BU3 Hovanec expired July 7, 1969 in Thua Thien, South Vietnam. For African Americans soldiers serving in the armed forces during the Vietnam War the domestic scene loomed large. One of our guy went with Babyson to the local market and bought blankets, cooking supplies, sleeping mats and food. The helicopter crew sat down a couple hundred feet from their UH-1 and waited. Beddoe. I would like to help you with your content on your website. Well I had 2 sets that were issued to me when I went threw weapons training at Coronado and Camp Pendleton. Well whenever I was working in that area I would sneak in the tent and find some dirty uniforms,still in good shape and steal them, put them in my crew tool box and take them back to my hooch and hand wash them ! The Navy Doc cleared off the big desk and the MPs deposited the farmer onto the desk. What the F is wrong with her? This is a 122mm rocket crater in the road in front of our shop. He got in line and they loaded his truck with beds, lots of beds. There were two supply tents up there and when the Field Marines (grunts) would come in from the bush they would strip off all their dirty clothes and throw them in piles in one tent then go into the other tent and pick up clean uniforms. The flares were often still burning when they hit the ground. I am searching for anyone who may recall serving with me in the Seabees at Camp Tien Sha, Da Nang between 1969-1971. That's danger close to the shop! Well guess what ? This is my Poem about the farmer who stepped on the mine. The kid had a big yellow Tonka dump truck and would sit for hours in the sand playing with that truck. June 29, 2022; creative careers quiz; ken thompson net worth unix I was in Danang less than a month when the Vietcong used rockets to attack the Danang Air Base for the first time in the war, on the morning of February 27. Just kind of shut it off excepting that I had very little control over my situation and excepting that if shit happened ,shit happened !! The Brief. I guess that is why there were a lot of E-2 in the Marines. Get those Fucking Gooks away from that Damn trailer". We aren't sure where he is yet and haven't got permission to go after him! Naval Support Activity DaNang (1965-1970 . Some of the rocket attacks were on Camp Books (FLC) . We had no black out lights on our trucks so we would have been any easy target for anyone who decided that they were going to kill us! I wanted to know everything about what happened to those Marines. He had to re arrange his schedule to accommodate me. Nights in Vietnam were uncomfortable at best. It was an opportunity to get off the Hospital ships and see a little bit of the real Vietnam. I went to my CO and asked to help. With chow finished I had the rest of ( very much reminds me of cutting up chickens at butchering time). Camp Tien Sha, Da Nang Camp Tieu Khu, Binh Duong Province Camp John R. Tine, Kien Phong Province Torello . Tlchargez ds aujourd'hui la photo Camp Tien Sha. 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