Dear Mom and Dad, Not much news but I thought I’d drop you a line to tell you everything is fine. Well I made machine gunner for sure now, that’s all right with me. I sure lucked out for one thing in order to be gunner you start out as ammo bearer then asst gunner … More R&R and fishing trips
Dear Mom and Dad, Well here we are at LZ Geronimo (that famous Indian) we came here from LZ English and I think that we will be staying here for about a week because we are getting a new captain. That’s a good thing. (He spends part of the letter frustrated by loved ones at … More Machine gunner at LZ Geronimo
Dear Dad & Mom, I don’t know how long this letter will be. You will hear that in almost every letter I write, but I’ll write as much as I can. Yesterday we secured a village while the South Vietnam Police went through it. We then made a CA on top of a mountain we … More Bats in the foxhole
I just got done with my 4 days of training Wednesday noon. They got us up about 6am Tuesday and we walked about 5 miles to our training grounds outside of the barrier we had classes, shot our M-16 rifles, then in late afternoon we started setting up camp for the night. We had 4 … More LZ Uplift, Foxholes, and Kool-Aid
How Goes the Battle? 