Frisco,
Before the 9th Division headquarters were moved down to Dong Tam in the Delta in 68 (? I think that was late 68) we were located at a place called "BearCat" in 1967 and early 68 not very far from Long Binh. We had P-training there for a few days, sometimes about a week or so depending on the urgency for the "replacements" to get out in the field. Most of the training took place outside BearCat in some of the surrounding rubber plantations. Not a "nice" place to be, it was SUPPOSED to be "training"--BUT..........we actually ran into "Charles" a couple of times while there. Scared the livin shit out of us FNG's!
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Gimpy
"MUD GRUNT/RIVERINE"
"I ain't no fortunate son"--CCR
"We have shared the incommunicable experience of war..........We have felt - we still feel - the passion of life to its top.........In our youth our hearts were touched with fire"
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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