machine guns mounted in it. OK, we’ll have to compare notes later.Chip, Many thanks for the comment. Cam Ranh Medical Clinic!!!!!!!!! I was assigned to HHC at the Depot in March 1969 and worked at the Directorate for Administration there. Be it guerrilla attacks or rocket attacks, we followed the usual SOP, Standard Operating Procedure, putting on steel helmet, flak jacket (bullet proof vest), reporting to the arms room to be issued an M-16 rifle and ammo. We had limited Vietnamese hires…..mess hall & 2 carpenters, but they were a piece of work.
Hope I get to relate some of the gems of anecdotes. I did my first year at Fort Knox as a Supply Sgt at the Reception Station putting new recruits to bed, and my second year at the Cam Ranh Army Depot. PhilPhil: my mistake. 44 years ago & finally telling MY story!!!! Well, the story goes that some GI went to the village with Monopoly money & made out like a bandit ……but he could never go back again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 670th transportation co. Cam Ranh Bay, VIETNAM ,ARMY,1970 by BOBOOSTER777. As word got out a number of blacks in the transportation company up the hill from us broke into their arms room sensed a number small arms. !Thanks Phil–those were very strange days–where reality wasn’t always real. I recently wondered what med facility we had….I guess I was healthy & never heard of guys going on sick call from our unit, Headquarters Company for the 97th MP Battalion, Cam Ranh Bay.So I never knew about you guys of the 349th MD! I don’t know if our structure at the Depot was similar to yours but we were sort of serving two masters. I know that night a group of black soldiers blockaded doors and would not let any other blacks go inside club. I was in the 155 and looking for guys in my unit. We had an MP unit of our own out in the boonies with too many Black Power MPs. Do you remember the area enough to identify it?I enjoyed reading the above and I book marked it so I can come back now and again.I left Viet Nam in December 1970.
January 24-December 11, 1970 Note the location of Cam Ranh Bay peninsula where I was stationed. )Unfortunately, like most GIs, I wasted my year in Germany. Mostly I remember surviving the time and meeting new friends with common interests in a far away place. That night I never saw so many high ranking officers before in one place. Bill Wonsik, Bill!!! –22nd Replacement Company!!! Good reflections & again my thanks! Like some of the others at the Depot my Platoon tended to stay away from Tiger Lake and went to the China Sea beaches.
We never heard anything more about the incident and you cannot find any documentation as to ever occurring. –a scream of a laugh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks.Jerry lines, WOW!
Those Philippino bands in the club in our HHD area & the sounds of “Proud Mary” still ring in my ears…”Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’ cross the river”!!!!!!!!!
I don’t know how that got by me. Your story of Vietnamese woman & babies continues to unfold into the full explanation of all you experienced. I met and had to work, lead and more importantly got to know fellow Americans from all backgrounds and all areas of our country as well as Vietnamese people of a different culture.SGT Bill Wonsik!!! Buildings at the base. I too would be amazed if the MPs were not called in & your Colonel(?) It hit right in the middle of rows of canned tomatoes it made quite mess to clean up. 88TH TRANSPORTATION That was quite a story you told from your tour at the Army Depot, May 1969 to April 1970, finding that dud satchel charge in one of the enclosed warehouses!!! We have similar memories of our “forced labor.” Looking back, it is difficult to complain about our assignments, considering how some of our comrades spent their Vietnam assignments.
Thanks, Melody!!!
Thanks for reading & commenting!!! I remember one guy had a similar story to your about the explosion. I actually prayed he would die because he was suffering so bad. 29:35.