Craig Taylor was pulled from the job to go work another project.He had also gotten cement poisoning in a cut on his foot so would not be able to help on any more concrete work. (a hooch is a 16 by 32 ft wood framed plywood building with 5 foot high walls and a tin roof.) Let me tell you that wasn't fun at all. Because of the rocket attack on May 13 (rockets hit with in 50 yard of this building) some of the officers there wanted escape doors out the back of the building where they were starting to build their own bunkers. I could see through the gauze and there was some kind of wound underneath that looked like velvet. There were no more shots that day but there would be on the next two mornings. I never really realized the high level of tension we lived under until I left Vietnam ! The I don't know what the building Guess earlier generations of residents at Camp Fay had their On the night of February 23, 1969, we held off an attack on the Da Nang Air Base by a large VC force. On the "left side" was all the waiting in transit at the Long Beach Naval Station, I got orders to Some morning I would be more tired when I woke up than when I went to bed. Well I had 2 sets that were issued to me when I went threw weapons training at Coronado and Camp Pendleton. Population in 2009 (millions) Percentage of Province Sprayed During 1960s. There were 6 area work centers in the Da Nang AO . 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. Then I was out the door, I passed LT Branch halfway down the stairs and was waiting for him in the bunker! standing duty after working hours you were pretty much alone. thought about was the airbase in Danang was under attack, Chu Lai Base Area. Chn Thnh Camp. I wish I would have known about it then! It was an opportunity to get off the Hospital ships and see a little bit of the real Vietnam. The doctor and nurse came out of the clinic. It seemed a bit strange to see everything so neat and tidy when Some time that day the Catholic Priest who was in charge of the clinic and also the Da Nang orphanage showed up . On May 15 I had finished 6 or 8 escape doors. and created an overlay of the changes to the harbor, which was [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. Technicaly they were out side the perimeter so were not recorded, I guess. This comment has been removed by the author. I pretty much walked the whole base then back to the EM club for a cold beer TWS is the largest online community of Veterans existing today and is a powerful Veteran locator. The Gunny Sargent assured me that the cost of the 782 gear would come out of their final pay check! (The Doc had a black medical bag that was exactly like the one Doc Holiday on Gunsmoke carried around. 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. I had my broken leg cot and was living out of my sea bag. "driving deprived" at the time and any time I had access to a I recognize the admin building on the right, everything else is pretty vague. The fleet also managed logistic operations at these locations. It was about the most insane thing I had ever experienced and was hard for my mind to grasp what had just happened. The PTFs, under Vietnamese officers and crews, conducted over 1,000 raids against North Vietnam from March-April 1964 to January 1972. PTF base at after working hours. For the time being they were stashed in my hooch and on May 24, Karl Voiles spent his first day assembling beds. So what did I do for work uniforms ? Different kinds of flairs, the different mortar sounds and small arms fire. Soon there were Marines all over the place. By the time I graduated from High school I was a damn good diver! Danang U.S. Naval Support Activity 1964-1973 - MRFA The solution that I found was just to build big rectangle frames (20 feet by 40 feet) sitting on top the ground . Category:Military bases of the Vietnam War - Fandom Camp Tien Sha Vietnam 1968 | MilitaryImages.Net Nang officers billeting ! things. Because of Da Nang's strategic location on rail, air, and highway routes, development of its . I would have to wait a few more days for that to start. Pretty big load for On May 21,1968 at 2400 hr. Naval Support Activity, Da Nang 1969 Cruise Book vietnamandmilitary $175.00 101st Airborne "Tour Book" 1967-68 The first year!!! At Freedom Hill you'll see some panoramic shots of the base and buildings (USO Club, ), likewise at Tien Sha (Snoopy's Chicken Hut, Acey Ducey Club). I was one of the unlucky ones who ended up shoveling a lot of shit! ACTOV addition Admiral Army assets assistance attack August base Beach beds began boats Bridge buildings Camp Tien Sha cargo Center changes Class closed combat Commander Communications. It's the 4th largest city in Vietnam. In the fall of 1966 I was transferred middle , Mr Kim a Korean Philco Ford electrician . paths and painted white and there were white picket fences around almost every boat part would be housed in supply couple of Corvairs (ok, stop laughing!) ( so we could see to make a quick exit to the bunker during a rocket or mortar attack. barrels over the bow. Then it was back to the base ( it took about 50 minutes to do the whole trip) and hopefully be on time for the 0100hr radio check in . aspects of it are certainly more memorable than the bad parts. 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. The iStock design is a trademark of iStockphoto LP. It was a long miserable cold 12 hour night. Our group that was sent to MST1 landed in risking my life in a really inadequate vehicle! He praised me for staying calm and I had done good then he said I should go outside and sit down as I was looking a little green around the gills! IN VIETNAM. ( very much reminds me of cutting up chickens at butchering time). It was what those We hopped in his truck and he took me down to H&S company supply to get bedding and mess gear. (my home base). Vietnam War Wannabes | Page 3 | Senior Forums and Captain David A . The new pier facility allowed deep-draft ocean-going vessels to unload cargo directly onto trucks instead of offloading into Lighters while anchored in the harbor. a small cargo plane in the middle of the night, all I From 1800 hours until 0600 we had to have some one stand watch. A regular jeep would accommodate 5 people, while in this As usual US style plumbing, the The Monkey Mountain Patrol. MST1 and thought it would be a good time to go back and see The firemen loaded foam canister on a mule and were able to get to the UH-1 and finally put the fire out. I heard the truth the next day at the mess hall. quarters. We are the Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 1122, based in Collin County, Texas. With over 81,000 members, VVA provides a community of fellowship with people who share common experiences, needs and hopes for the future. When I got on Ok, I I did spend plenty of time on Marine firebases around the Da Nang-Phu Bai area and spent time at a camp located at Phu Loc. Everyone had his turf marked out and nobody was willing to give any for me. Beerworth dropped us at 1st MPs. On Friday I left the shop at 1800hr and went to the Children's Clinic. In the future I What has stuck in my mind all these years is how much that bullet hole in the blond guys head looked like the bullet hole in the back of the head of a very large possum that I had shot in the back of the head when I was about 16 years old. On Monday morning Bet returned the snorkeling gear to Special Service and noticed that they had two sets of double 70 scuba tanks with Mark-2 regulators. We took several trucks and picked up Pham Ba and Babyson outside the gate and headed down the road. 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. mind. In another incident, a black guard was shot to death when a black sailor went on a wild shooting spree at Camp Tien Sha near Danang. After a couple rocket and mortar attacks my brain never went completely to sleep. 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. Camp Tien Sha Stock Photo - Download Image Now - Vietnam, Military Base, 1968. It started raining Saturday June1st and rained continuously until Wednesday morning but that didn't slow down work any. One night I stood a four hour office watch and another night I was on a four hour barracks fire watch. had to man the perimeter during There was to much noise from the generators and air conditioner to hear the rockets explode or the warning siren go off . The Navy Doc cleared off the big desk and the MPs deposited the farmer onto the desk. Soon, the fleet dispatched Naval Beach Group One Cargo Handling Battalions 1 and 2, nucleus port crew, Mine Force, Service Force, Underwater Demolition Team, and Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) units to Danang. There was an indoor movie theater, snack bar, hobby shop, NCO club and EM club, basket ball courts and tennis courts. It was the UH-1 trailing smoke. But I don't consider myself as one. loading the LSTs and loading onto trucks. We stopped work and watched. The rocket attacks after that the would be on target! Guess 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. This is my Poem about the farmer who stepped on the mine. Then we saw a little dot far up Elephant Valley. While I was building the door the Doc and nurse moved in medical supplies to the shelf unit. The only answer I could give them that they would except was. I think it was on May 22,Wednesday when I was on the night radio,phone watch that I wrote my poem about this event. The mountain is in the background. 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. for references to information received from vietnamandmilitary $6.00 Original, In Wrapper P-38 Vietnam War vietnamandmilitary $175.00 Naval Support Activity, Da Nang 1968 Cruise Book vietnamandmilitary Seller Information Seller vietnamandmilitary Contact Seller The harbor defense unit used landing craft, picket boats and 16 feet (4.9m) Boston Whalers to monitor and protect the maritime traffic. I asked about the little girl and the doc said she had died Thursday night. 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. I have absolutely no recollection of The Marines slept 12 to 14 men in a hootch. These truck convoys would run from Danang to Quang Tri Marine base every few days and would spend nights or off time either at Quang Tri or Phu Bi or Danang. Da Nang Cluster. US Marines in Vietnam: 1968 The Defining Year - Ohio State University It was time to go look for some food! Here is the letter I wrote my parents on May 15, 1968. Jeep parts? The rest of my tour I did what every good Seabee team would do, I stole them ! We had devastated their economy and destroyed their infrastructure. My barracks was an old French barracks at Camp Tien Sha near Da Nang. FLC took twenty one 122mm rocket rounds and on May 22,1968 at 0200 hr FLC took 12 122mm rocket rounds. It was at maximum power and flying very fast. Our group that was sent to MST1 landed in Some Nice history lesson for me. A couple of our guys , Craig Taylor and Pat Brown were interested in learning to Scuba dive so I took it upon my self to teach them. Some times I would bend the rules and just let them go and I would take care of checking them out. Another source for jungle fatigues was up at Camp Reasoner. The Marines on the perimeter were yelling at them to run parallel to the wire. Some times she would get so drunk that she couldn't walk anymore, was really funny watch her four legs going in different directions! very first day of war. Camp Tien Sha, Headquarters - Navy Unit Directory - Together We Served because of all the flares in the mountains next to the base. Alan on Haircuts The kids were always hanging around and the best way to keep them from stealing was to befriend them by giving them candy. maintenance, and generally taking I forgotten how much it sucked being there? 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). The hooch in back is the doctors office and residents. She was wearing light blue pajamas with little lambs printed on it. 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. Then after thinking about it I realized how wrong I was. I don't work out the details with him. This was the closest skivvy house to Camp Books , a very short walk. It had been built the end of April so was brand new. Camp Tien Sha Vietnam 1968 from Monkey Mountain Bombardier Pretorian Aug 16, 2013 Good photo, get a good look at the base. It was very clear that they did not want a FNG getting in their way. It was the Spring 1967 and I had a choice to make, get drafted into the Army and go to Viet Nam or join the Navy Reserve. It was kind of like the work orders I got. Coate took care of my paper work and handing in my bedding while I was packing up my sea bag and then it was back to clothing issue somewhere in China beach to pick up my clothing issue which was 4 sets of green utilities a couple soft hats (the Marine Corps kind) and a pair of work boots. All terrain forklifts would scurry back and forth off It is a code of conduct course as much as it teaches the practical issues of survival. I yelled "incoming" and took off running to the nearest watch post which was 150 yards away. James L Chambers (cause of death,misadventure). Those care packages and her letters help keep me going when ever times got really tough! I am sure had I not done that , the Chief, when he came down to the hootch, would have solved the problem by sending me back to China Beach. Here are the Activity reports for May 1968 for the Marines in my AO (area of operation) . When I started working on this clinic project I was full of good feelings as to how we were helping these poor Vietnamese people. Historian, US Navy Seabee Museum. was about vehicles, building There was a bunker there. probably had some car handling skills. There was no time off just the same 12 hr work shift. [1], The logistic establishment at Danang functioned with growing efficiency by mid-1968 as it built new port and shore facilities. An example of what we did. Recent photo of Cheryl and me This is surely just something I've through the base that would allow me to do "hot laps" as long as no When we arrived at Red Beach the Seabee team shop was a mad house. head has about the lightest colored care of the base. New year found Some where along the line the nurse had done an IV drip. Vietnam War Home Movies Tien Sha & Da Nang 1969 ammo dump - YouTube Charlie 2. Familiar Places - NSA/NSF DaNang Veterans Association It's claim to fame was that it had a black prostitute. really care. The tracer rounds stopped ,I gave it a couple minutes and got in the truck and sped on my way back to the shop! Naval Support Activity (NSA) Danang was officially established on 15 October 1965. It turned 90 degrees to the right and touched down between two rows of concertina wire in the middle of the perimeter. I am very grateful to Annette for the support she gave me while I was in Vietnam. Camp Tien Sha is a former United States Navy base located in Danang, Vietnam. 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. . half, aside from the times that I [3] The camp was quickly expanded to include 25 new barracks able to accommodate an additional 1,700 men, together with a barber shop, post exchange and milk plant. . I think the thing that The plane started to drop, going in steep and fast. Work started at 0700 hr and we got off at 1700 hr.