African Americans perceived racial issuesrace relations, prejudice, and discriminationin Vietnam through a lens heavily influenced by their earlier experiences in the United States. I held that little girl sitting on my tool box and in a short time she was used to me and clutching onto the front of my shirt. Her husband was an ARVN soldier who had been killed. morning. Some of the women were in their early twenties, so there is still hope. Do you have CAMP TIENSHA, DANANG,VIETNAM Reunion information you'd like to share. The flares were often still burning when they hit the ground. Familiar Places - NSA/NSF DaNang Veterans Association Work started at 0700 hr and we got off at 1700 hr. I know NOTHING of a chapel It had 4 windows so I went to the window for H. I handed the clerk my records pack. Book description. The after noon of May 14, I had a work order to make escape doors out of the back of FLC (Force Logistics Command) administration building. world in a land that nobody cared about , I was sitting in a Continental of the guys took to securing a May 1. Although the rules were they had to go back and check out. I went back to my cubicle crawled into bed, ending my She promised not to eat Puppy. I didn't think about the danger but was aware of it. He lets fly with 8 or 10 rounds then he is done for the day. I would sit at the desk and drink coffee, write letters or poetry. Modern. year 1968 | MilitaryImages.Net On Friday May 17 I was sent out on another job. "personal" shower head and keeping I was in Danang less than a month when the Vietcong used rockets to attack the Danang Air Base for the first time in the war, on the morning of February 27. When we arrived at Red Beach the Seabee team shop was a mad house. The cot had a broken leg so I had to prop it up with a sand bag and it was missing one end piece so it just wanted to fold up on me when I laid on it. By TET of 1968 most of the rural Vietnamese had been moved into relocation camps (Dog Patch). Tour: August 2, 1969 through July 17, 1970. Sunday late afternoons we were able to get over to the Red Beach causeway and get in some water sessions. The layout - (07-07-02) Guard shacks along the pipe line to the ESSO fuel plant, Oil Tanker off loading at the ESSO fuel plant. Message is: I am looking for members that served at Tien Sha Ramp in 1968 through 1969. I didn't know it then but that was my last good meal for a long time! I forgotten how much it sucked being there? Often times during a rocket or mortar attack rounds would over shoot landing in Hoa Kahn or Dog Patch ,providing children for the Clinic. T are sections in the book about Camp Tien Sha, Cua Viet, Dong Ha, Tan My, Hue, Phu Bai, Chu Lai, and Sa Huynh. You'll see the plumes of smoke, fireballs and falling debris from the explosion of the DaNang ammo dump on April 27, 1969 -- and close ups of some of the damage to buildings and barracks. I feel strongly about it and love learning more on this topic.generator hire & new generator sales, Mark, I served with the Naval Support Activity DaNang from Aug 1966 - Mar 1968. Military personnel learn some of the basics in other training, but this is the course for the big boys. We were here, On Sunday May 19 I was dropped off alone ( The Vietnamese got Sundays off) and my job was to build steps and a door for the building. If there were any trouble calls from the Marines (usually lights out on the perimeter or something not working at the mess hall) then it was jump in the truck drive out and check and drive over to our hooch and get who ever was needed to go fix the problem. May 27 was my birthday. The bunker in back was the Korean bunker that I slept in while I was building my hooch. It's the 4th largest city in Vietnam. 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"! The doc had no idea but it was a sure thing she was going to die. I was in country from June 1969 to June 1970. Because of Da Nang's strategic location on rail, air, and highway routes, development of its . never even gave a thought that a I held the door open for them. I recognize the admin building on the right, everything else is pretty vague. there. So back around to the front of the hut and to work on the awning . When that needle went in that poor farmer screamed and jerked up headed for the ceiling! What that means is we stood a four hour night watch every other night. He was wearing his best short timers uniform. So over time it was easier to just not know anyone. 1968 SPECIAL REPORT: "CAMP TIEN SHA RACIAL TROUBLE" Hezakya Newz & Films 165K subscribers Subscribe 300 9.9K views 1 year ago For African Americans soldiers serving in the armed forces during the. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! I have no significant memories That's danger close to the shop! Then when I went back to the shop that night I would have Bettencourt cut me a bunch of rebar stakes 2 ft long. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Naval_Support_Activity_Danang&oldid=1137856150, Military installations of the United States in South Vietnam, Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Naval History & Heritage Command, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 6 February 2023, at 20:12. couldn't resist testing it's limits! My barracks was an old French barracks at Camp Tien Sha near Da Nang. The doctor and nurse came out of the clinic. shower heads came out from the side Spent four years in college, and achieved QM3, and qualified in maintenance, and generally taking On Tuesday May 14 I finished my hooch and settled into the corner right inside the door. Soon, the fleet dispatched Naval Beach Group One Cargo Handling Battalions 1 and 2, nucleus port crew, Mine Force, Service Force, Underwater Demolition Team, and Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) units to Danang. My head carpenter ,Pham Ba told me about her during the week. I was shocked when he told me she was only 15 years old! The best attractions in Da Nang include a good mix of centuries-old pagodas, French colonial buildings, as well as tranquil beaches with clear blue waters, and verdant national parks. The two crew members jumped out just under the flames .They carried their M-60 machine guns. History and documents on bases at DaNang - Warboats.org With chow finished I had the rest of CONTACT: VETERANS CENTER OF NORTH TEXAS. PDF U.s. Naval Mobii.e Construction Battalion Three was about vehicles, building I joined the We 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. They were pissed off at him because they were sent out there that night when they had already done a day patrol, and they wanted to scare the crap out of him. How Blue Water Navy Ships were exposed to Agent Orange Total Area Sprayed (sq. Some time that day the Catholic Priest who was in charge of the clinic and also the Da Nang orphanage showed up . Later after they landed it became obvious that they were throwing out the ammo boxes so they wouldn't explode when they landed. It had been a very busy month with a lot of things happening. All of the rounds hit in swamp area between the main base and FLC command building . The shop doors were always open and a light on in the shop. I joined the Navy Reserve and went to Viet Nam anyway. From 1800 hours until 0600 we had to have some one stand watch. About a mile out the crew started kicking boxes out the doors. I thought the clinic was for children. Well I never did hear from Barbee. 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. So I took a trip in September 2016 back Here is a poem that I wrote about the helicopter. I went home in August 1967, Camp Horn is a former United States Marine Corps and United States Army base located in Danang, Vietnam. It was very clear that they did not want a FNG getting in their way. one of authority noticed. 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. I remember one time showering in She giggled a bit (talk Some of the materials for rebuilding came from my civic action salvage yard. There was one thing that bothered me about Tien Sha. I suppose that I needed that time alone to recover from the amputation! I lay there waiting for the out posts to return fire, nothing happened! Warehouses, open storage areas, cargo handling equipment, and good exit routes from the port were limited. sucked and the barber dissed me for I cried to myself on the way back to the base. enough for me. In March 1965 when United States Marine Corps combat troops landed at Danang, the support establishment was rudimentary. through the base that would allow me to do "hot laps" as long as no Chapel? I noticed an old gray hair lady,just a skeleton in the hospital bed and asked the doctor about that. The exhibit was known as "The Vietnam Syndrome". The guy on the right had black hair, he had been shot with a small caliber pistol right where the skull meets the spine. Hi Dan, I've always We also had a couple of American Philco Ford teachers. Charlie 2. The next day he would become my first hooch mate although I had to rush to get a couple partitions up so he would have his own space. Camp Tien Sha Vietnam 1968, viewed from Monkey Mountain. loved cars and fast driving. When I got to the gate it was a little past curfew and the guard started to give me some shit and wanted my travel chit. Danang. [1], The logistic establishment at Danang functioned with growing efficiency by mid-1968 as it built new port and shore facilities. Bet coming down the trail by the ESSO Plant east wall. whatever you say Mr. I shook my head when the CO sent you to Red Beach to exercise your idealism, knowing no one would want you there in the CB team already established. Well I answered once about the FNGs. The field had been filled with red dirt and rocks and had been compacted with heavy equipment. They were the best I could We visited Chu Laiu, Hue, and our I tried one other time a few months later but didn't have the appropriate paper work. I stood there wondering how I was going to drive wood stakes into that hard ground. Vietnam veteran (Navy) wants simple design for book on Da Nang 68-69 But when shit happens to you and you are the victim, everything changed! 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. That was necessary because My Vietnamese workers were hunkered down by the lumber pile about 30 ft from me.Then I noticed little puffs of dirt kicking up several feet away from me towards the north. All the stuff that related to the I dropped the log book on the microphone button and yelled AWC#5 -INCOMING ROCKETS! what it is like now. I needed to know which of the sound meant danger! Go through their front gate then out their back gate to the causeway. I didn't If you served in Camp Tien Sha, Headquarters, Join TWS for free to reconnect with service friends. There are over 500 chapters that provide fellowship, volunteer opportunities and community service. Some times a lot of shit happened . The Brief. Recent photo of Cheryl and me Unfortunately when we got there it was closed for one hour for lunch and Coate did not have the time to hang around. Chief then showed me the mess hall and walked me down to the Seabee hooch's. The Brief. Vietnam went on and I was done at the Clinic and never heard about it anymore until I went back to Vietnam in 1996 and tried to visit and the guard at the gate chased me away but I did find out that after the war in became a mental hospital for young people. As soon as they caught on they would take on that task and I would move on to the next. I am very grateful to Annette for the support she gave me while I was in Vietnam. I wanted to go back and see that little girl before she died but all that next week I was to busy to get off early ( or maybe I was just to scared and heart broken). training), ands a week at Whidby Island (E&E, and SERE. The Docs loved coming to Hoa Kahn Clinic. We had devastated their economy and destroyed their infrastructure. Welcome! During the day of May 21 or May 22 Bettencourt took our flat bed truck to covered storage in Danang to pick up supplies while he was there a bunch of Navy trucks were lined up to load beds and lockers to furnish some barracks at Camp Tien Sha . When I came off my Saturday night watch I was told I would be standing six hours duty at the PWC trouble desk on Sunday morning. One of them used to take me to the MACV Club located by the USS Repose. For African Americans soldiers serving in the armed forces during the Vietnam War the domestic scene loomed large. Also we took care of damage at Camp Reasoner and the small CAP out posts. there was a war going on. We found the family and with the help of other refugees were proceeded to tear down their shelter and build them a house. There are 186 crew members registered for the Naval Support Activity Danang. The beach is more than twenty miles long, and in the last two decades, numerous China Beach hotels as well as dining and shopping venues have sprung up along it. 15 rounds hit us with 3 KIA and 15 wounded. Camp Horn - Wikipedia Click Below to watch some clips from "Tien Sha & Da Nang 1969" -- Please note that because of the transfer process this You Tube video is of a lesser quality than the actual DVD. So now I know why the sniping stopped. Relations outside of combat were typified by racial tension and violence. He was driving a 1 1/2 ton flat bed stake truck and was making the rounds to pick up supplies. The poor farmer had stepped on a mine. This is a 122mm rocket crater in the road in front of our shop. Browse millions of high-quality stock photos, illustrations, and videos. I'm sorry my last letter to you was so abruptly ended, but I figured I'd best get it sent, otherwise you'd still be waiting. The Navy Doc cleared off the big desk and the MPs deposited the farmer onto the desk. I don't remember when I stopped doing work at the Children's clinic, Maybe the end of June or early July. He got in line and they loaded his truck with beds, lots of beds. As he cut them off he threw them in the corner beside the shelf and I can remember how strange they looked leaning against the wall! On the "left side" was all the Me, age 23, sitting on my bunk drinking a beer and smoking a cigarette. 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. YFU-62 by ghost549 on DeviantArt