Found some old black & white photos from the time I was in Danang
That's me kneeling ah to be young again
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Da Nang 1970
Found some old black & white photos from the time I was in Danang
That's me kneeling ah to be young again
U S Navy Retired. NRA Lifetime Member. NMLA. SASS Member Time magazine Person of the year 2006
Isn't your buddy's magazine in backwards?
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Cheers from New Zealand
Jeff.
Being young again would be great, but not if it means I've got to be in Danang...
Sure glad you made it out of that, Tom. A lot of guys didn't.
Yes so is mine, we had to do that to take a picture otherwise we didn't insert a magazine unless we were going to shoot the rifle.Originally Posted by JeffinNZ
U S Navy Retired. NRA Lifetime Member. NMLA. SASS Member Time magazine Person of the year 2006
Tom, I was just down the road in Chu Lai 70-71. We sure did have some silly rules didn't we?
Thanx, Tim Kelley
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Tim, my brother in law was at Chu Lai then he was a seabee MCB 74 if I remember right.
U S Navy Retired. NRA Lifetime Member. NMLA. SASS Member Time magazine Person of the year 2006
On Nui Ba Den (Black Virgin Mountain) there was this silly rule that anybody who was outside during hours of darkness must wear a steel pot. That made for the occaisional silly-looking apparition, in underwear, flip-flops, and helmet...heading to the outhouse for a night time dump.
The other half of that rule was...if you saw somebody in the darkness without a steel pot, you shot him.
CM
Retired...TWICE. Now just raisin' cows and livin' on borrowed time.
Chu Lia and a few other places '66 to '68... don't remember any of those silly rules then, never went anywhere without being fully loaded
[QUOTE=Tom-ADC;1109504]Found some old black & white photos from the time I was in Danang
That's me kneeling ah to be young again
Being young again would be nice, but I would enjoy just being able to kneel again!
Otony
Ah yes, Steel pot AND flak jacket! One night at LZ Evans, I was halfway between the shower (cobbled from 55-gallon drums and PSP) and our hooch...wearing flak jacket, helmet, flip-flops, and pair of survival orange surfer baggies with my gunbelt slung around my neck...when one of Uncle Ho's mortar teams walked a string of 82mm's through our company motor pool and mess tent.
Bill
"I'm not often right but I've never been wrong."
Jimmy Buffett
"Scarlet Begonias"
Thank you for your service and my freedom .
Never do anything that you will have to explain to a paramedic.
timkelly
I was down the road a ways from you south at Duc Pho.
Last of the 23rds AO, right next to the 173rd's and I can assure you they never got close to the area as we moseyed around down in part of their neighborhood one time.
You mean they gave the Navy magazines? ? ? <LOL>, Just kidding.
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Speaking of silly rules, first time going to Freedom Hill exchange Marine MP stops us because our pants legs aren't bloused, so I show him my wings and explain I'm not a seabee & avaition sailors didn't blouse our pant legs, it worked and he let us in.
U S Navy Retired. NRA Lifetime Member. NMLA. SASS Member Time magazine Person of the year 2006
Times don't change much. When I was in Iraq a few years back, one of our stupid base rules was if you wore a face mask or balaclava it couldn't cover your face. It had to be worn on the neck and stay below the chin. A face mask for your chin, military logic at its finest.
The one that got my blood boiling was when they stopped allowing units to fly flags on our bases. Prior to the rule change, there were flags and American pride everywhere on the bases. After the rule change, the base was allowed to have one US flag flown on behalf of the base commander. They restricted the flying of flags because they didn't want to give the impression that we were conquerors. It didn't do much other than lower morale. It was such an insult to the work and sacrifice performed by every American there. It got so out of control that they even made one unit take down the yellow flags they had at their softball field - yep, the ones used to show the foul line.
Hill 55, 1969-1970.
45 AUTO! Because having to shoot someone twice is just silly!
In 69-70 I was offshore on the Ranger helping A-6s keep flying the ho-chi min trail with lots of CBUs. BvT
Every lawbreaker we allow into our nation, or tolerate in our citizen population leads to the further escalation of law breaking of all kinds and acceptance of evil.
Since almost all aspects of our cultural existence are LIBERAL in most states, this means that the nation is on a trajectory to dissolution by the burden of toleration and acceptance of LAWBREAKING as a norm, a trajectory back to the dark ages of history.
BvT
Thanks for your service soldiers, airmen, sailors, and Marines.
BvT, I've landed and taken off (catshot) from the Ranger many times, I flew your favorite airplane as a crew member the COD which means mail!!
U S Navy Retired. NRA Lifetime Member. NMLA. SASS Member Time magazine Person of the year 2006
68-69 I was offshore on the USS New Jersey BB-62 supplying gun fire support
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| BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
| BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
| BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
| C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
| HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
| PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
| LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
| GC | Gas Check |
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