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For the record this the first time that I ever said anything on the
net about being in Viet Nam. Check google you dumb ****,not hardly
flounting anything. Only the fact that there are some of us that walked
the walk. Now I'm going to get somewhat specific. One medal I recieved
was the ARCOM with V for valor. It was downgraded from a Soldiers
medal. The medal was for rescueing several Vietnamese from a burning
village caused by a fully armed VNAF F-5 that flamed out on takeoff and
crashed into the village just east of Bien Hoa. As for measuring the
rounds they really didn't fly past they landed all around us. Where
would you have been, hiding under your bunk sucking your thumb and
crying for your mommie?

You didn't answer my question why aren't you still at Eagle What was
your job there?

Make sure you wear your track shoes to Sun N Fun and Oshkosh so you
can run to security when you see me. Because I promise our paths will
cross. Then we will find just how brave you really are without a
keyboard to hide behind.

Frank M.Hitlaw
Jakarta, Indonesia

Frank I might have crossed paths with you, I was in Bien Hoa in 1967-68.
Looking at jaun's bio on his web page I doubt he served in any conflict
or he would have said so.

Here is to you for serving in Nam.

zoom and yaun are cowards and cannot fight their own battles so they
belittle everyone else. zoom takes press reports and copies them to his
puny little web site and calls it news, juan has not said one coherent
reasonable thing as long as he has posted to rah. Listening to zoom at
Arlington this years talking about how great he is was sickening.

Jerry

Jerry;
I arrived at Bien Hoa with the 101st on 7 Dec 67 left there mid Feb
for camp Eagle. The F-5 crashed a couple of days before the tet in the
Widows Village just east of the airfield. That was exciting but not
near as exciting as the Tet that was a couple of days to remember.
There will never be an airshow to rival the F-100's dropping 500lb
bombs inside the perimeter.

Some day we will have to sit down over a cold one(something other
than muzzleloader) and find out how close we were during that period.

Frank

wrote:

Jerry;
I arrived at Bien Hoa with the 101st on 7 Dec 67 left there mid Feb
for camp Eagle. The F-5 crashed a couple of days before the tet in the
Widows Village just east of the airfield. That was exciting but not
near as exciting as the Tet that was a couple of days to remember.
There will never be an airshow to rival the F-100's dropping 500lb
bombs inside the perimeter.

Some day we will have to sit down over a cold one(something other
than muzzleloader) and find out how close we were during that period.

Frank


I just missed Tet, left Saigon two days before Tet to come home, was
pretty strange sitting at home watching tv and seeing what was going on
where I had been two days before.

Jerry

Frank

Moved from IV Corps (Delta) to Pleiku late in 67. Director of II DASC.

Only FAC that got airborne first night of TET at Pleiku. Wonder how
many lives I saved with the strikes put in that first night?

Never stopped to count, just doing my job.

Friendly fire shot at me on take off (50cal/20mm) even with my lights
out. Sound shooting I guess.

Used to go to BH and TSN and mix with the 'big boys'.

Would land in the over run and turn off the first taxi way. As I
cleared the R/W a heavy mover would hit the R/W and pop his chute 50
feet behind me. You could smell the burnt rubber from the wheel spin
up.

Glad you were one of the good guys and willing to put your ass on the
line. Just ran my figures and had 257 combat missions and 398 combat
hours.

Big John
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On 6 Sep 2005 08:31:14 -0700, wrote:



Jerry;
I arrived at Bien Hoa with the 101st on 7 Dec 67 left there mid Feb
for camp Eagle. The F-5 crashed a couple of days before the tet in the
Widows Village just east of the airfield. That was exciting but not
near as exciting as the Tet that was a couple of days to remember.
There will never be an airshow to rival the F-100's dropping 500lb
bombs inside the perimeter.

Some day we will have to sit down over a cold one(something other
than muzzleloader) and find out how close we were during that period.

Frank

Big John wrote:

...

Friendly fire shot at me on take off (50cal/20mm) even with my lights
out. Sound shooting I guess.

...

Can you explain that? I waasn't there but always thought that
Charlie didn't have much of an Air Force to shoot at.

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FF

I wasn't with Big John but the Tet was unlike anything that had
happened up to that point. I was at Bien Hoa when the rockets started
flying we ducked into our bunkers as we normally did. Usually these
attacks lasted only a few minutes and it was back to bed. This night
when the rockets stopped a massive infantry attack hit the east side of
the perimeter. This area only had a couple of VNAF security post and it
didn't take long for the NVA breech the line. About half way from the
wire to the runway was some old French bunkers maybe 250 yards inside
the base. It was at this time that our helipad became the front line.
The bad guys set up in one of the reinforced bunkers and started
shooting a 57 recoiless rifle at the F-100s in their revetments. All
the time we were trying to keep their heads down with rifles and a
couple of M-60 machine guns. Overhead the 334th AHB Playboys were
tearing up the area with their Huey Cobras. That is how it continued
through the night,at first light me and a kid from Texas went to the
other end of the pad to an ammo supply we kept for the gunships. As we
headed back for the perimeter with a supply of ammo. I was looking
south about 10 miles on the solid gray overcast I saw the brightest red
reflection and a shock wave ring growing . The shock wave just kept
coming and the reflection turned into a massive fireball,as the shock
ring passed me the earth shook hard enough to bounce me off the ground
I about crapped I thought that someone put the wrong bullet into a
wrong gun and fired a tactical nuke. I jumped into a ditch and was
trying to remember all the nuke stuff from basic training. Obviously it
wasn't a atomic weapon but the NVA blowing up the Long Binh ammo dump.
Later that day we had A1 Skyraiders and F-100s bombing inside the base.
It took about three days to mop up and return the base to its rightfull
owners,us.

So the gist of this story is if I thought that day someone fired a
nuke, thinking that there was an air attack wasn't to far fetched. On
the other hand Big John may have just ****ed someone off.

Frank M. Hitlaw
Jakarta, Indonesia

Fred

Never saw a VC aircraft in II Corps. Think they just heard an engine
and shot at the sound?????

The fog of War????

Big John
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On 7 Oct 2005 19:41:13 -0700, wrote:


Big John wrote:

...

Friendly fire shot at me on take off (50cal/20mm) even with my lights
out. Sound shooting I guess.

...

Can you explain that? I waasn't there but always thought that
Charlie didn't have much of an Air Force to shoot at.