Hi David, I missed tet as I left 90th 12/1/67. Told to destroy it, thank god for officers o I was the Saigon Support Command Liaison Personnel Management Specialist for the 520th/538th PSC in Bien Hoa. I was called Chicken Man. We were attached to them, our Finance Unit was assigned from Bien Hoa Army Camp. What year at camp alpha?. There was a 91st Financing (disbusring ) at Long Bin Post. wmutza@wi.rr.com, Wayne, In fact, everyone left in Vietnam in 1973 was under MACV command directly until they processed out. Also remember some guy sticking m80s in between the slats of mamasan restroom, sneaking up and lighting them when it was occupied.

I have note somewhere here about the co of Campa Alpha treating me, e3 or e4 at the time very well. To my surprise the next day I was shipped out to my unit First Field Force Vietnam 54th Signal Batt. Everything had to be clean and orderly, almost stateside-like. When I got it home in December it was partially frozen. When I returned to An Khe after my 2nd R&R; the enemy was trying to breach our large perimeter at An Khe but our troops repelled them & me & a couple then DEROSED out of Vietnam from Cam Rahn Bay on 2-11-1968 on a Northwest Airlines 707 & once we leveled out the hoops, hoolers & cocktails started flowing!!! I was there from August 67- August 68. vietnam 1969 tay ninh hoa base 1970 bien camp tass 19th war veterans hoa bien air map base vietnam zenfolio linn 1969 dan album I am upset when I see the welcome to Saigon sign at Ton son Nhut as both Pan Am and Saigon are gone and bank of America is still around, Have a happy/safe. December 68 to January 70 I think that i took your job at 90th Replacement. Thanks, and a Merry Christmas to you and everyone that worked at or went through the 90th. Turned out to be a .30 cal round, a friendly. Best way to add them or get them to you? I was assigned to the 22nd Army Finance Unit. Joseph Priest, while I do not remember your name, you are the first person who seems to have worked a CIF while I was there. Sometimes rode shotgun for transportation, something to do when we had a lull.

My hooch was up front, near the wire and the road about three down from the o club.

We were a Crazy Bunch, yet, did our jobs, Processing in-coming and those going Back To The World. IN fact it may not be mine either as it is often close to one i took. in Long Binh is very accurate. e nothings are not treated that way. Contact Us | Jim Stewart and I roomed together. He was the 90ths personnel office for the first part my tour which was 12/10/66-12/1/67. We processed everything that happened to you, once you hit the ground, until you left for home. We spent two years researching and writing our book which includes 37 chapters and at least 150 stories, mostly humorous, about all sorts of folks. We also made runs from LBJ to the Third Field Hospital in Saigon and on occasion we would transport personnel to Camp Alpha at Tan Son Nhut AFB.

Was housed at Camp Alpha for a couple days and then transferred to Long Bihn.

There were two man fighting positions spaced out along the wire. Our supposedly drinking water (potable) was clear enough that you could see the bugs , nonpotable was too murky to see them, I faithfully took my malarya bill for 7 weeks after returning to the states/. Of course, at 70, it would be ringing anyway. Not sure of the specific company. It blew at some point during my tour, mid 67 mid 68. They just sound patronizing and phony. Some soldiers see the camera behind them and wave toward it. The strange smells of Saigon were very different & very odd to us servicemen.

So you were there during the 1968 Tet?

But I could be wrong. I was called Chicken Man. AND I HAVE PICTURES TO WHICH I CANNOT PLACE NAMES. Long ago and far away, The only person I can think of at the 90TH in communications was ???? Bob Schnug, Merle Breymeyer, Sgt. No Ken I was transferred out of the AGs office at Bearcat to Camp Alpha at Tan Son Nhut. I was later sent to the 10th Finance at Tan Sun Nhut. A few days latter on 2-27-1967 one of our new guys went on a sunrise clearing patrol & a defective pineapple grenade exploded on his web belt & he did not make it(GOD) bless his soul!!!

I think they transferred to Vietnam within a few months after I was discharged. These are men who take no crap I was embarrassed to have family see it so I tried to touch up parts. vietnam 90th binh on the teletype machine with a tuning fork pulling or pushing the center shaft of the motor until the white dots on a disk didnt move. SP4 Larry D Dowd was with 381st repl co from 6/68 to 9/69 started as driver/motor pool ended up as clerk typist. The teletypes and phones just went crazy all that day.

I keep in touch with Gene Sorrell. Joe Melchiorre. I am working on my RVN memoirs now. Ken burns company and gave me a contract for use of my pictures at $74 each used.

had to have at least $500.00 to take with them on R&R. Harry: Email address is jflanagan7@verizon.net. An aroma that cant be forgotten. David, Ive made a number of posts here over the last couple of years but you probably havent run across them. The four of us didnt realize that the four dudes at the next table were junior Green Berets whod been sent to Fort Sam to be trained as Special Its a little sad that Im the first to mention this Vietnam Veterans Day because this day is for more that have over!! I was with IFFV 54th Sig Batt Camp McDermott HQ Co. until Feb-68 tasted a little of TET. Yes, I remember them hitting 3rd Ord, a couple times when I was there.

I do not remember you. Their was a LT. Ken Pierce, SSGT. Cloverdale, Sonoma County. It took about a year for the ladies to sew it.Also,Ga. Remember the 3rd Ordinance exploding.the concussion was more than scary. I was with the 90th when it was deployed from Ft Benning in 1965. I never remembered ever being called a Casual my 7 days at the 90th.

Saw the Bob Hope Christmas Show, Christmas Day, 1967, at Long Binh. you sit behind me and if I get hit drag me out of the seat and take over the wheel. We were following his blood trail which led us to a VC/RVN Base Camp. The chapter is titled Ballad of the Green Brawlers and the book can be found here: http://www.longbinhdaze.com. Each had its own morning reports, separate quarters a showers, mess halls.

Had to spend a few nights up at LBJ when it was jungle, scary times. I saw that in a posting on this page, but cannot find it any more. The next morning after chowing down at the mess hall, we all lined up on the parade field where they called names of those who have been assigned a unit. Maybe I can remember him by that.

Guys would tear the name tags off their uniforms so that they could skip out of work details (burning shit) and other various jobs. Oh yeah the billets were concrete but wooden barracks when I was there Feb 19 1967.

I wound up as the NCOIC at the front gate with a team of nationals who screened the 600 or so nationals who came and went. Welcome to Viet Nam you are not in Yakima anymore. Change), You are commenting using your Twitter account. I pulled berm guard duty at night 2 or 3 times & after about one week about 6-7 of us were loaded onto a ch-47 Chinook for our ride out to join our unit in Tay Nihn. Between 1969 and today MANY years have gone past and my memory is not to be trusted,.

as for Often rode shotgun for you guys going into Bien Hoa Airbase, I often drove there and back by myself , and every sunday, Dh Wheeler, CW4, Personnel Office would have me drive is :Laundry to Bien HOa and also get the jeep washed, same place, same water. HEY THANKS, WELCOME HOME TO YOU TO BROTHER. Bien Hoa what a wonderful, charming, quaint little town.

I have a few questions Id like to ask you about Bien Hoa and the 90th Repo. The fighting lasted for two days before the North Vietnamese broke it off; the combat resulted in the deaths of 776 North Vietnamese, 114 South Vietnamese, and two Americans. (Probably before you arrived.) I arrived in-country at Tan Son Nhat Airport in Oct of 66. name does not ring a bell, but should have known him>.. also, why do you keep saying officers were crooks? Mine were rejected due to graphic violence. i, an e4 finance clerk processed in your CO, i don;t remember the date. Thank you all so very much for your service! i LEFT 12/1/67. I have numerous blogs here.

As for the casuals burning the crap for us I was casual for 8 days before becoming cadre and burned more than my share. I was 73c20 also and was a part of the 22nd finance unit in Bien Hoa. mike_slusser@hotmail.com. Your transportation unit trucked us to Camp Ray because we had been assigned to Recon platoon HHC 1/503rd airborne infantry-173rd Airborne Brigade. I dont recall Lt. Kikuchi , my original personnel officer was DH WHeeler, wo4, replaced by SFC Nelson and LT Robin S kent.

Regards, Dan dan.coleman@live.com.au. I handled Officer Processing at Camp Alpha. back to waiting for new comments from passerbys. BOX 613 Well he talked to me for a long time more and I ended up as the Commanding Officer of the 18th Replacement Company. I think it blew up at least twice while we were there, something like Oct 66 and then again in about March 67. I thought about how lucky the new replacements were to be able to sleep in a screened building rather that a dirt-floored tent. NO!! Because I think I was processed there for my first R&R to Taipei. what is foriic Non of the above names ring a bell but then after 45 years, my bell is a little rusty and lost its hammer. Looking for any other members of 19th DPU.

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I lost one of my AIT Ft Ord training friends KIA in Cambodia. I was in the big tin warehouse. Lt Kikuchi. One mans opinion. Sent to 79th Engineer Gp down the road. Im sure he was there at some point. I am not writing a history fo he 90th but only the way I remember it. This was in March 1970, I went back t the World in December 1970I worked a C.I.F. Nothing like it.And we enjoyed our clubs.How can we forget The Doors and Hello I love you,Riders on the storm,Buffalo Springfield and For what its worth,Cream,The White Room and many more.War is Hell,but music helps with the wounds of war.Music is one thing all of us Vietnam brothers shared together.The music helped us through it. I, from Nothern Ohio had basic, 4/30-66- 7/8/66 at Benning, Harmony Church and then assigned to it in 12/66 in RVN.

Was it Sgt Cross?? My son was wounded in Afghanistan and has his own war stories for his kids. Dave Diser.

Make him one of Americas best and acted as if it was his personnel tool.

https://vvabooks.wordpress.com/2017/05/15/long-daze-at-long-binh-by-steve-donovan-and-fred-borchardt/. On the outside of the door was paintedITS A GOOD LIFERE-UP ARMY. We had a guy in our Scout platoon that had at least sixty confirmed enemy kills, James F. Dugan: Jim you are so correct!!! I remember how bad the chow was there. We changed currency for incoming & outgoing troops. Base went on lock down, perimeter was reinforced and the MPs took him away. I think I remember you.

Pulled guard duty on all the towers and at the Tank Farm in Qui Nhon ( fuel storage). I just did my job & went home, to try & sort it out!!

I just picked up a book called We gotta get out of this place by Doug Bradley and Craig Warner. It was all about body counts as a way of keeping score to see who was winning or losing the war.

Welcome Home Fred. There were a couple of buses at the Bien Hoa Air Base patiently awaiting our arrival to take us to our next destination.

Your first impression of TSN was the same as mine. Largest explosion Ive ever heard in my life. While youve said that too much of the book is about us, some have complained that it doesnt tell enough about us. That was 90th Replacement Battalion, situated on the road to Saigon between the village of Bien Hoa and the huge base at Long Binh. Later to 79th Engineer Co at Camp Frenzell Jones on Long Binh near Ho Nai. I found orders, award citations and other documents. Oh my God, were under attack.

I was the NCOIC at the gate, overseeing security at the gate, screening foreign nationals who came and went. He appeared to little high stung and very nervous. Room was painted all black except for one wall and a lighted panel in the ceiling, and a square shipping crate turned into a lighted, zebra stripped coffee table. Thank you for your service in Nam. We started out, 4/67 in trucks and progressed to a regular building near USARV Headquarters. G Kikuch, As you dont remember much (as I drank/smoked too much too.) You can read about it here: I was on guard duty one night when the trip flares lit up. Hi Tom! upon returning to RVN he saw me. Cpt Mike Jorgenson . I remember you. There was rumors floating around, that our units up north were experiencing heavy casualties.

The plaque I found that my co workers gave me for outstanding service, not sure about all that but has the following names. I dont think i have the emails but i remember trading pictures and i just had them rescanned by a professional outfit,scancafe so i can send you all of them just send me your address. I was at 90th Replacement Bn from Dec 68 until Jan 70. Thats interesting as I did not know anything about the 90th pre Long Binh. i did it briefly, and set the standard for lateness as kinger in mash did, but I had other skills so he kept me, DAN MILLER, I WAS WITH THE 40TH. For the next two days I was promoted to burning shit. I served in the 90th from Oct 1963 which was stationed in Fort Lewis, Wash. and in July 1964 the unit was transferred to Fort Benning, Georgia. It was tough to live in and we evenually had to give in and repaint itl If you were with HHC data processing around this time I would love to talk to you. I was the medic known only as Doc Dont remember to many names, Mike Kelly, Reagan, Bob Gambatese, Lyman Low (Chinese kid we called Ho Chi Low). I drove bus for the 90th in 1970 to 1971, went from the replacement center to the top of the hill, after bus I went to tmp and guard truck driver spent 18 months in country, if there is any on else that drove bus on long binh post at that time I would like to hear from you. Saigon was struck again during this phase, but the attacks were less sustained and once again easily repulsed. I lost my driving privilege, after a couple of Sergeants took the 3/4, and and tore the drive shaft out, and expected me to fix it, I said no. I can not find the originals I sent you. and I dont think we will ever get it straightened out.

Thank you Clarence, we did our best. As cadre at 90th, I was only allowed to see nancy Sinatra sometime in 67 Camp Alpha 69-70.

Fearless men who jump and die I must have just missed you. I often wonder what were happened to the 90th Replacement Battalion. I was at that place for an hour before departing (maybe they didnt want me to know something), Kurt, Brian. and in case you forgot, that means 11% or so of my military pittance (about $280 per month)went to retirement. You can email me at:

The other guy with me said just a week ago a sapper came through the perimeter wire and slit the throats of the guys on our bunker. Didnt mean to post some of the above twice. Fort Bragg was too much spit & polish & it did not measure up to what my buddies & me had experienced in Vietnam but I did enjoy serving with the 82ND Airborne Division(The All Americans), Jim Dugan: Welcome home my brother-in-arms & everyone wants to thank you for all the hard work you have done over the years to make this site so interesting & informative to us Vietnam Vets!!! Also my memoirs are at the web site below.They have become verbose and I am going to clean them up. Last place I was station was Pleiku and An Khe. To the tune of a measly $255.00 from SS to put us in the ground.Thats how much were thought of folks.Then we have those that hate our flag but love our welfare.But I do try to keep a positive altitude. he had a bullet go between his ear and his radio.He was transfereed to the 90th after recuperation.

LtCol Clyde Carroll was Commanding Officer at the time. I was there from December 69 until November 70. Funny thing, I took very few photos and I can only remember the name of one guy I served with while there. it was until usarv had enough. During this series of actions, Viet Cong forces occupied six Buddhist pagodas in the mistaken belief that they would be immune from artillery and air attack.

nice hearing from you! My name is John Davis and I would really love to hear from someone from those days of my life. Never, went back to the 90th. well, something is missing. Many of the guys with me were throwing up. Im Mike Slusser.

NOT THE JIM COUSINS THAT DID OFFICER PERSONNEL FILES AND KEPT BLACKMAIL FILE ON THE COMINGS AND GOINGS OF COS. I transferred in as their Mechanic which was a cake job because we only had 5 or 6 vehicles and only used 2 on a daily basis. Website is http://www.longbinhdaze.com and you can also find some reviews at http://jmp.sh/YOqbKdE. i recall a rumor at the time of the 67 event,in order to suffocate the fire and i think i saw it dropped, we bombed the fire ourselves or it would have gone on for every and i needed my sleep as we could hear the explosions, i actually had a new invention with me , that was a cassette recorded and i erased the music i brought from home and recorded several hours of pops.keep the memories coming. "Proxy" files contain a semi-transparent watermark that spans the image. I was at 90th during TET offensive in 1968 when VC dropped a mortar on 3rd ORD and blew up some ammo. I spent a lot of time in my off hours in the commo van (it was air-conditioned) and helped man the switchboard if the guy on duty needed a break. I left rvn on 12/1/67. No outsiders who are looking for non-90th members who happened to have passed through and then moved on. try writing the Pentagon as I heard the st Louis records center had a fire. At Long My pulled guard and did inventory in all the warehouses. we are talking about 3 Ord correct?

The North Vietnamese lost an estimated 2,100 men after inflicting casualties on the allies of 290 killed and 946 wounded.

We were usually the last unit to get them when they came through processing Thanks Brother,just very thankful to be back as over 58K brothers gave all they had.And I honor their memory every day.They are why I fly that flag in my front yard.And 2 more for good measure.And am fixing to add a 3rd one on another pole on the other side of my front yard. Yes our R&Rs did start with our first impressions of Camp Alpha & your staff ensured that our R&Rs would be the best possible at Taipei, Bangkok, Penang, Australia, Hawaii-a few others & also the in-country R&Rs!!! Hello..was responding to someone who remember my dad and worked with him. I would update the inventories with rosters of soldiers coming in and leaving and try to maintain levels at each unit, Nothing personal about it, just numbers.

Anyone know a Sam Cotter or Duane (Frenchy) Lamoreaux with the Finance Unit, at the 90th?? Best regards, I figured he just made that story up, so I would stay up all night and pull his watch while he slept.

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