We took a left hand turn at the intersection and headed out the Tien Sha peninsula towards Monkey Mountain. Well I answered once about the FNGs. Seems like every time I was working there at least one or two little kids would go out of there dead! Dock area at Da Nang harbor. What the F is wrong with her? After the little girl died I never went back to the clinic. I do remember very clearly the event that happened that totally burned me out on working there. BBC News, Da Nang, Vietnam. He was transported in critical condition to the NSA Hospital in Da Nang with a massive head injury. Da Nang is one of Vietnam's major ports, a city rich in history. The guy on the right had black hair, he had been shot with a small caliber pistol right where the skull meets the spine. Often several rockets would have gone off before I even knew we were under attack ! It sure seemed longer then a month, to me it was more like a few months! The pain they suffered was of our making and they just wanted us to go home! The ( very much reminds me of cutting up chickens at butchering time). Trouvez d'autres images libres de droits dans la collection d'iStock, qui contient des photos de Vietnam facilement tlchargeables. May 27 was my birthday. Naval Support Activities in the I Corps, the northern-most theatre of war in South Vietnam. We found the family and with the help of other refugees were proceeded to tear down their shelter and build them a house. Detachment Dong Ha - 1967 - 1970. Supported COMSEC 705 (Camp Tien Sha), Operation Big Look (Da Nang) and USMC ground missions (1st Radio BN). I was shocked when he told me she was only 15 years old! the fresh meat so what do I know about it. just out of the picture on the right. Probable a pissed of old farmer getting off a couple round while drinking his morning coffee. Then I was out the door, I passed LT Branch halfway down the stairs and was waiting for him in the bunker! The lumber and wood crates in upper right was the start of our lumber yard. As such a small group we couldn't do the standard Navy 4 hour watch. Here are the Activity reports for May 1968 for the Marines in my AO (area of operation) . The road was closed to civilian traffic at night so there would be no other vehicles on the road. Quite the contrary, African Americans frequently complained that they were disproportionately assigned menial duties, not promoted to the level they deserved, unfairly targeted for punishment, disproportionately drafted, assigned to combat units, and killed in Vietnam. Off we went to the supply yard at one of the SeaBee battalions, while we were there we stopped for a quick lunch at the Navy mess hall. Barrels of asphalt damaged by rocket attack, April 1969 . I would have to find some time to build a foot locker. It was I'm at camp Tien Sha at Da Nang now . Level the frames and tie them to the stakes and I would have my concrete forms complete. Our generators were not even running yet so I heard the rocket coming in. Short EM3 Camp Tien Sha Fire Department. In November 1965 500 men moved into the old French Army camp, Camp Tien Sha at the foot of Monkey Mountain. If I wanted something I had to have Bet or Ski pick it up. What I really What ever it was we were done by shortly after 1600 hr. The Doc narrated as he worked, what he was doing, what he was going to do, when I should be prepared for the farmer to go ballistic! Yes, everyone called him soccer ball head ! ( We called the Army Republic Of Vietnam police white mice because they were small, wore white helmets white web belts, white pistol holsters and white spats.) The Docs loved coming to Hoa Kahn Clinic. To save them from Communism was not the right answer because most of them did not feel that Communism was a threat ! I believe that on May 21 we had hits to the sick bay which was a big rebuild job. Me, age 23, sitting on my bunk drinking a beer and smoking a cigarette. Soon we arrived at our destination, Camp Tien Sha Vietnam, an old French encampment that had been converted by the Sea Bees into our base camp. Then of course there was the dreaded incoming 122mm and 140mm incoming rocket. To know all the different sounds was to be able to read what was happening at night and how safe I was. I dont know a damn thing so ( so we could see to make a quick exit to the bunker during a rocket or mortar attack. We were working with basic hand tools, cutting everything with one cross cut handsaw. As tired as I was I never got much sleep. Well I never did hear from Barbee. 3. They made runs north to Cua Viet at the mouth of the river (80 miles north of DaNang and 6 miles south of the Demilitarized Zone) and then upriver eight miles to Dong Ha to haul cannon ammunition to the marines. All in the name of saving them from Communism. View from bow of LCM. After a short rest to pull my self together I went back and finished putting the door spring on and about that time one of my team mates picked me up and took me back to the shop. Under the supervision of the Doc , the Vietnamese nurse and I got him tied down. The MPs left in a hurry. LCM is up to port side of barracks craft. Faites votre choix parmi des millions de photos, vidos et illustrations de haute qualit. It was just after 1700 so I was good. There was a Marine listening ambush set up outside the perimeter in that area. The Post office was about 75 yards from my hootch. Pett George my ex UDT instructor allowed me to go through the class early being as how my older brother Jay and my Dad were going through the class too. I didn't realize at the time that the intended target was me and the generators. 6 years ago. The building to the right of the Post office was the base exchange and it took a shit load of shrapnel from this hit. The new wood frame building that I did was behind the camera. 2023 iStockphoto LP. In the future I It took until 2000 hours to finish that first slab. . Vietnam veterans, age 60+, American. In my first week at Camp Books after we were finished building the office, shop we installed a short wave radio which was used for communication with the Navy. This is my Poem about the farmer who stepped on the mine. Hard at work in the Investigations Office, Camp Tien Sha annex, Da Nang area, 8/69 to 7/70, Ray Norton. On May 22 at 0200 hr. [3]:33, In mid-October 1968 the Deep Water Pier complex (160712N 1081250E / 16.12N 108.214E / 16.12; 108.214) on the Tien Sha peninsula was completed, beginning operations in September 1968. While my guys were working I was talking to the Gunny in the hut. Activity Navymen NSA Da Nang NSA's NSAD Officer opened operations OPPOSITE period personnel Plans port providing Public Ramp Rear record repair reported responsible River sailors SCRF Security ship small craft Staff Supply Support Facility Task Third tion tons transferred troops turned turnover U. side was a barge with a sign. One night I was called out for some lights on the west perimeter. THIS IS A FULL Collection of 4 pages of FIRE BASES, AIR FORCE BASES, Naval and Medical, BROWN WATER Naval, and any and all bases DOD during the Vietnam War 1963 to 1975. She was especially friendly with our hooch mama-son. From 1800 hours until 0600 we had to have some one stand watch. A sad day because we were no longer a Seabee Team ! It is very likely this was were the Marines were killed . ), and on the day, before I was to leave, I hitched a ride headed to Camp Tien Sha on the east side of Da Nang where I was to be processed out. The field had been filled with red dirt and rocks and had been compacted with heavy equipment. . 1968 - Harold Goldman's Cobra Gunship Hue 1970, submitted by Roger Carver Hue 1970, submitted by Roger Carver . I hated that phone, radio, air conditioning and black coffee! Download this Camp Tien Sha photo now. This is the day I started my real job. Inside of that trailer, face down were 2 dead Marines. Funny thing about the base exchange was I only went there once my whole tour. We had no black out lights on our trucks so we would have been any easy target for anyone who decided that they were going to kill us! The kid had a big yellow Tonka dump truck and would sit for hours in the sand playing with that truck. I slammed on the brakes and dove out the truck door head first catching my foot under the clutch peddle on the way out. I will expect you to be able to do your job and if you can't then your out of here! She promised not to eat Puppy. Despite these positive interactions with whites, African Americans did not view the armed forces as an institution free of racial prejudice. Le logo iStock est une marque dpose de iStockphoto LP. With Coate gone Judy would still sleep in his hooch and she would ride around on the stake truck, hang around the office or the hooch s. Judy hated Marines, and Vietnamese men but she was alright with Vietnamese women as long as they treated her nice. )The Doc gave me a large stick like a tongue depressor ,except bigger. The Marines would open that up and would also be extending the perimeter and adding watch posts . Cest pourquoi tous les fichiers proposs sur iStock, quil sagisse dune, Des publicits sur les rseaux sociaux aux panneaux daffichage, en passant par les prsentations PowerPoint et longs mtrages, vous aurez la libert de modifier, redimensionner et personnaliser tous les fichiers sur iStock, y compris toutes les images et vidos, dessins Humoristiques et Bandes dessines, Notices lgales et protection de la vie prive. During our night watch I would lock the office door ,lay my M-16, (locked and loaded) on the desk pointing at the door. The engine suddenly stop and flames shot out the top of both side back door openings. My body was always waiting to react. It was very clear that they did not want a FNG getting in their way. What the hell is that? Back at the hootch the Seabees got in a major debate about where to put me. My address is: Phillip K. Sampley. Let me tell you that wasn't fun at all. Our office was up stairs. For the time being they were stashed in my hooch and on May 24, Karl Voiles spent his first day assembling beds. There were Seabees, Korean Philco Ford, Vietnamese all working like mad . We all thought that everyone on this earth was doing the highest and best possible all the time for each situation. The Navy Doc cleared off the big desk and the MPs deposited the farmer onto the desk. I got my NAUI Scuba diving cerification in July 1966. These places had many different names, abbreviations, acronyms, terms, and phrases.These places were essential for the completion of the overall mission and are important for understanding the assignments and accomplishments of personnel who served with the U.S. When I started working on this clinic project I was full of good feelings as to how we were helping these poor Vietnamese people. One rocket struck this barracks, but the man in this room survived by . Detachment Nha Trang - 1965 - 1971. Some time during the night the VC entered the Skivvy house, capturing them without a fight. I wish I would have known about it then! He left me sitting there on the steps saying he would send Beerworth down at 1700 hr to get me settled in. Didnt take long to figure out that everyone could see that you were a FNG. The Marine on the left was blond and looked like a California surfer.He to had been shot in the back of the head. Even now-days I hate phones,radios, air conditioning and coffee ! I was going to start building my own hooch so I would have a place to sleep ! Then I started paying more attention. An electrician CN (E-3). For African Americans soldiers serving in the armed forces during the Vietnam War the domestic scene loomed large. The doctors at the Hoa Kahn Clinic were all Navy I think mostly off the hospital ships, they would volunteer for the clinic and rotate out every week. BU3 Hovanec expired July 7, 1969 in Thua Thien, South Vietnam. The number of rockets are probably plus or minus a couple rockets. You are a builder so Beerworth or Yost will be who you report too." there was a war going on. The official report was small arms fire on the perimeter. It was a long miserable cold 12 hour night. Bruce Moore says he first returned from a 13-month stint in the Vietnam War to a "poor response." "We were at Norton Air Force Base. Later after they landed it became obvious that they were throwing out the ammo boxes so they wouldn't explode when they landed. One night I was in the office with LT Branch . It was creepy doing that trip to the causeway. Guard shacks along the pipe line to the ESSO fuel plant, Oil Tanker off loading at the ESSO fuel plant. So off to Camp Tien Sha to get my gear and check out. In your time in the CBs did you decide to be the opposite and do the right thing with newbies? I was a certified SCUBA diver. There was the real possibility of hitting a mine or being ambushed by the VC (it happened more often then I would like to think about) . We took 2 122mm rockets about where the crates are. The next weekend I asked about the farmer ? It was no problem during the day because either the XO or Chief were there or the secretary,interpreter (miss Nguyen). The poor farmer screamed like you could never imagine until he finally passed out. The trailer was to short so the Marines legs were bent at the knees and sticking up, no shoes, pant legs up to their knees showing their very white legs. You FNGs get off the plane and fall in over there. Pham Ba went around back to take a pee. This book is the capstone volume of the entire series in that 1968, as the title indicates, was the defining year of the war. [3] NSA Danang originally operated from a commercial pier on the city side of the Hn River and this "Museum Ramp" (160300N 1081328E / 16.05N 108.2245E / 16.05; 108.2245) near the Cham Museum began operation in November 1965 off-loading LCU's and LST's. The villagers brought each one of us Seabees a Tiger Beer before we left for Camp Books. that's one of our generators upper left. The Seabee team had 8 junior men in one hootch and 4 senior men in the second hootch. : . The sound had carried down the valley making it sound very close, then it would die down then get loud again, very strange how the sound bounced around the walls of the valley. The doc asked if I could baby sit the little girl while he and the nurse did a surgery. Naval Support Activity DaNang (1965-1970 . and the LT moved to the Da. Danang, VN _ _ DS CS: 1964: Feb 1973: Detachment Bravo, FLTSUPDET, Navcomsta, PI. A smell I have never smelled again in my life time. nstar48; Media item; Jan 30, 2008; korean engineers maintenance control division vietnam war year 1968; . Nang officers billeting ! DS CS: Jan 1968: 6 Oct 1972: NSGDet - at 8th RRFS, PhuBai, Vietnam. One night I stood a four hour office watch and another night I was on a four hour barracks fire watch. In August 1967, the headquarters of NSA Danang was moved from downtown Danang to Camp Tien Sha.:33. There was about a weeks over lap so the knew Chief could learn his job! went by (so slowly! cold glasses of chocolate milk, ice cream and an apple to go. Naval Communication Facility. I would sit at the desk and drink coffee, write letters or poetry. It must have been about 1100 hr. T is a history of NSA in Vietnam, which by 1969 was the Navy's largest overseas command with the largest public works department in the world. Here is the letter I wrote my parents on May 15, 1968. Some where along the line the nurse had done an IV drip. (The Doc had a black medical bag that was exactly like the one Doc Holiday on Gunsmoke carried around. Well I had 11 months to go and it was going to be a very long 11 months ! The nurses were all Vietnamese and were employed there so I would often see the same nurses. The second floor office was just being framed up . I started building my hooch on Wednesday May 8th at just before noon. The tents were on the right. LCU-63 * MI is shown across the Han River from Da Nang itself. Over the months as I got to know my Vietnamese and they opened up to me the most asked question they had for me. They were trying to fly that chopper to the safety of Camp Books. I didn't think about the danger but was aware of it. Apart from some shopping highlights and historical sights, the main reason for most travelers staying here is its proximity to the well-known My Khe Beach, Lang Co Beach, Hoi An and My Son. There was outgoing mortar rounds and incoming. (my home base). Suddenly the helicopter went nose high and stopped going forward. It was a horrifying thing to watch. Historian, US Navy Seabee Museum. Thursday morning we stripped the forms and started building the framing of the first building. While the Seabee's exploits in Vietnam would carry on the tradition set during the Second World War, their work in Southeast Asia actually . So now I know why the sniping stopped. Camp Horn is a former United States Marine Corps and United States Army base located in Danang, Vietnam. Detachment Cua Viet - 1967 - 1970. What amazed me was by brakefast time at 0530 the marines had already set up a field mess trailer out side the mess hall and were serving breakfast. When he was all loaded he told them one of the other drivers had the paper work and while they were trying to hunt down the papers he just drove away. In November 1965, Marines moved into Camp Tien-Sha, an old French Army camp situated on the Tien-Sha Peninsula and illustrated near the top . That distance above us was only 4 feet. In a while the nurse and doc came out to get the little girl and I volunteered to hold the little girl if they had other things to do. Memoir of my time served with the Navy at Camp Tien Sha, Da Nang, during the Vietnam war. by the time they got to us AWC# 5 we would be awake (hopefully) and report in. Clayton Beerworth and I were working on major repairs there by 0600 and the Mess hall was in operation more or less by that evening although it took a couple more days to get it up to 100% . We got danger close rockets in that area often. Recent photo of Cheryl and me. Another source for jungle fatigues was up at Camp Reasoner. It was losing altitude and we were wondering if they would make it. In Feb 1973, evacuated Danang to San Miguel . We hopped in his truck and he took me down to H&S company supply to get bedding and mess gear. After he was medivaced one young labor worker(Baby son) would ask me every morning If I had heard how Barbee was and if I got a letter from him. Had fun there, especially since I had to wear civilian clothes. We were here, That night at the mess hall it was, " did you hear about the 2 grunt that got shot and killed at the Skivvy house last night"! I suppose we had a good conversation but don't have a clue of what. Gave me the creeps then and still does now when I think about it! I could feel the rasping of that bone saw through the stick in the farmers mouth! nstar48; Media item; Jan 30, 2008; I was then sent to Camp Carter while we were opening up an old ROK base that was being used by Philco Ford to teach Vietnamese Sailors how to maintain diesel motors that were used in the river boats. The village it refers to was just north of Camp Books. The Doc first put surgical tourniquets on and took the belts off. On May 21,1968 at 2400 hr. 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