The Infantryman

[splummer]

I couldn't tell if the 58,000 plus names were Army, Navy, Air Force.
Coast Guard, Marines, Infrontry, arty, truck drivers or cooks etc. They all "still" seem the same to me.

[splummer]

Like Ron said, some of the guys in the base camps caught a lot of S----. Being a transportation company we were more out on the road then in our base. There were several trans guys wounded and kia in the base camps especially at Dong Ha. I had a chance to talk to a freind last week who was wounded at Dong Ha. He didn't wine about it but I forgot to check his eyes.............

[b3196]

Steve
I remember the medics taking our cook away. when he couldn't handle the stress anymore. You could definitely see it in his eyes.
Bob K

[splummer]

YOU GUYS HAD A COOK ????????????

[splummer]

Remember how Vietnam didn't have any front lines. I was in an awards ceromony at our base camp to see a cook get a silver star for saving a guys life in an ambush. [Maybe it was a bronz with a V I can't remember.] I don't know the circumstances because he was in a different unit when it happened but everyone said it was legitamate. SHAME ON YOU BOB AND STEVE FOR MAKING FUN OF COOKS.

[DMZ-LT]

It was different for ALL of us. Even in my platoon we don't remember the same day the same way. Welcome Home. Thank you for your service

[MORTARDUDE]

Our cook was mentioned in the book "Into Cambodia", in the part where our CO was relieved of duty......I will try to find my copy and put the passage here.....it is interesting.

Larry

[splummer]

I hope you can find it, I'd like to read that. [by the way, me and most of my buddies didn't have boonie hats with wire contraptions on them.] WE DIDN'T WANT TO MESS UP OUR HAIR.

[Robert Ryan]

After three tours of duty in Nam I learned no place was safe. Where ever you went if Charlie of the NVA wanted your ass, they found it and got it. No place was immune to that war. Some places might have been a little more secured but tottaly safe, I don't think so.

[Bill Farnie]

Originally posted by Robert Ryan After three tours of duty in Nam I learned no place was safe. Where ever you went if Charlie of the NVA wanted your ass, they found it and got it. No place was immune to that war. Some places might have been a little more secured but tottaly safe, I don't think so.

THis is true RR and I have always felt that way and I also have always respected a VN Vet no matter the mos, but your chances of an encounter with Mr. Charles increased 100 fold if you went looking for him, and that was the infantrymans job on an almost daily basis.