Some time before the end of the month we got three more guys in . [4]:8. I couldn't grasp what was going on at the time. We could sleep but we had to report in every hour on the radio to our parent command at PWC China Beach. that's one of our generators upper left. THE WALL OF FACES - Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund Dearest Rita, I just finished a quick letter to my folks first one since I've been here. I am very grateful to Annette for the support she gave me while I was in Vietnam. We went downtown in Long Beach, and we got harassed a lot. It was in a large dirt field 150 yards outside of the north perimeter. The Doc first put surgical tourniquets on and took the belts off. The Seabees in Da Nang U.S. Navy Seabee Museum I would share it with my team mates but a lot of it I gave to the Vietnamese children at the Clinic or whenever I worked off base. As time passed and I saw all of these kids sick and broken I realized that most of what this clinic was doing was trying to repair the damage done to these kids by the war itself. Don't try to cross in to the base as there were mines. UKC Forums - China Beach, Vietnam - United Kennel Club Drive out the back gate and about 2 miles to the Navy Seabee base. Level the frames and tie them to the stakes and I would have my concrete forms complete. (my home base). Book description. So every week there would be a different doctor. Well I never did hear from Barbee. the evening to wonder about and check out what Camp Tien Sha had to offer. Download this Camp Tien Sha photo now. Both of his legs had been pretty much blown off. Naval Support Activity, Da Nang 1966-67 "Cruise Book" - eCRATER configuration it would hold about 10 people. Vietnam veteran (Navy) wants simple design for book on Da Nang 68-69 I surveyed We are the Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 1122, based in Collin County, Texas. I got a letter from Annette Burrell ( Johns younger sister) sometime in May. uniform. Often several rockets would have gone off before I even knew we were under attack ! Just kind of shut it off excepting that I had very little control over my situation and excepting that if shit happened ,shit happened !! [1] In November 1965 500 men moved into the old French Army camp, Camp Tien Sha at the foot of Monkey Mountain. That was my first time seeing dead Marines. k. The doc had no idea but it was a sure thing she was going to die. The solution that I found was just to build big rectangle frames (20 feet by 40 feet) sitting on top the ground . heads" but they were always stolen whole story here. Sometimes we could be called out 2 or 3 times in a night. . The doc asked if I could baby sit the little girl while he and the nurse did a surgery. In addition, the Navy took charge of the offloading, storage and delivery of supplies common to all the allied forces in I Corps. A refugee family was living in a lean too in Dog Patch south . She giggled a bit (talk You are a builder so Beerworth or Yost will be who you report too." We had devastated their economy and destroyed their infrastructure. seating along the sides of the rear area. 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. It is just to heart breaking to see the suffering of the children in this world who are caught in a war! with Calif. He finished his tour with detective work as one of six NSA investigators at Camp Tien Sha, adjacent to Da Nang. Coate would send dog food care packages to Judy. Amphibious fuel lines were laid along the sea floor to storage tanks ashore at Red Beach Base Area, north of the city and the Marines' Marble Mountain Air Facility to the south. With tears in my eyes I told the guard that I had been helping the doc at the children's clinic and he could take his fucking travel chit and shove it up his ass! At that time the base fir truck showed up. All the stuff that related to the While my guys were working I was talking to the Gunny in the hut. I started building my hooch on Wednesday May 8th at just before noon. C Chi Base Camp. Smile like you mean it! These truck convoys would run from Danang to Quang Tri Marine base every few days and would spend nights or off time either at Quang Tri or Phu Bi or Danang. 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. Bet coming down the trail by the ESSO Plant east wall. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Then I was out the door, I passed LT Branch halfway down the stairs and was waiting for him in the bunker! couldn't resist testing it's limits! It was time to go look for some food! He left me sitting there on the steps saying he would send Beerworth down at 1700 hr to get me settled in. MST1 and thought it would be a good time to go back and see Most of the time if you were Thursday morning we stripped the forms and started building the framing of the first building. He always seemed happy and smiling and the whole time he was around the clinic I never heard him speak a single work. Changes: A History of Naval Support Activity/Facility DaNang, 1970 This is surely just something I've There was always something interesting to watch at Camp Books. the upper left hand part of the pic. Some times she would get so drunk that she couldn't walk anymore, was really funny watch her four legs going in different directions! Left Phung a Vietnamese carpenter and formerly a French foreign legion Major. I dont know a damn thing so My AR 15 slept on my left side right next to my body so I could always feel where it was. Hi Dan, I've always Jeep parts? When I asked the Priest what happened to the kid he said he didn't know, the kid was at the orphanage when he took over. (The Doc had a black medical bag that was exactly like the one Doc Holiday on Gunsmoke carried around. The enlisted head When I found out about that I went with Bet to talk to that officer. I took all the materials that I thought I would need to build the cement forms for my strong backs. ! The MPs left in a hurry. An example of what we did. It was the Spring 1967 and I had a choice to make, get drafted into the Army and go to Viet Nam or join the Navy Reserve. So I took a trip in September 2016 back It seemed a bit strange to see everything so neat and tidy when Learn more about royalty-free images or view FAQs related to stock photos. There were Seabees, Korean Philco Ford, Vietnamese all working like mad . Report an offensive or inappropriate entry. Marine guns up to the DMZ, we looked like shoe boxes eith long gun Some guys were able to go through their whole tour in Vietnam in John Wayne mode. May 1. probably had some car handling skills. person who was awake had access to the keys to the jeep. DaNang aerial photograph It was reported in an Email that National Geographic Magazine somewhere between Jan. 1967 and June 1968 had an aerial photograph of DaNang with enough detail to get the CIA uptight. This would also give Beerworth time to get his guys out on their job. The only answer I could give them that they would except was. So now I know why the sniping stopped. Here is a poem that I wrote about the helicopter. Most of them would be dead by now as most of the men were in their mid forties then . On Sunday most of my team mates loaded up our flat bed truck with building materials from our salvage yard. African Americans perceived racial issuesrace relations, prejudice, and discriminationin Vietnam through a lens heavily influenced by their earlier experiences in the United States. 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. Well whenever I was working in that area I would sneak in the tent and find some dirty uniforms,still in good shape and steal them, put them in my crew tool box and take them back to my hooch and hand wash them ! There was a bunker there. Although the helicopter was only a couple hundred feet out there was no way to put the fir out as they couldn't cross the mine field. [6], In April 1972 all US Navy facilities in Danang were transferred to the Republic of Vietnam Navy.[1]. Later I built a wash building and cook shack just about where these cots and the officers are standing. Very close now and it was clear that they weren't going to make it over the hurricane fence at the perimeter. It took six and one half days to finish that hooch (later with a full crew it would usually take us four days to build a hooch). Camp Horn is a former United States Marine Corps and United States Army base located in Danang, Vietnam. After the little girl died I never went back to the clinic. Chn Thnh Camp. Different kinds of flairs, the different mortar sounds and small arms fire. Anniversary story of his trip back Color home movie footage filmed by a serviceman at Camp Tien Sha and Da Nang during 1969, including footage of Freedom Hill, Dogpatch, the April 27th Da Nang ammo dump explosion & aftermath, and more. "driving deprived" at the time and any time I had access to a said hours 1700 to 2100. quarters. 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. Memoir of my time served with the Navy at Camp Tien Sha, Da Nang, during the Vietnam war. Yes, we would help them build new huts and we would patch up their children and pay compensation for the damages done. It is a code of conduct course as much as it teaches the practical issues of survival. things. 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. I slowly walked around the trailer checking them out. Naval Support Activity Danang - Wikipedia He was honorably discharged in 1968 after completing his tour in Vietnam, as Petty . Paperback. head" screwed onto the pipe. bgmarshall@aol.com. As I remember John arrived here on November 21, 1968 and left December 22, 1969, thirteen months later. Just to the right of My Vietnamese works didn't want to hang around waiting for the truck to take them back to the shop. Then we saw a little dot far up Elephant Valley. [5], In July 1966 the "Bridge Cargo Ramp" (160307N 1081352E / 16.052N 108.231E / 16.052; 108.231) began operations increasing NSA's supply capability. We took 2 122mm rockets about where the crates are. Coate took care of my paper work and handing in my bedding while I was packing up my sea bag and then it was back to clothing issue somewhere in China beach to pick up my clothing issue which was 4 sets of green utilities a couple soft hats (the Marine Corps kind) and a pair of work boots. I forgotten how much it sucked being there? building. head has about the lightest colored As ship demand for potable intensified at NSA Danang, on page 82 of COMNAVFORV Monthly Summary May 1968, A new dam on Monkey Mountain was completed and an effort was begun to store as much water as possible in this 1,900,000 gallon storage site. They had been covered with poncho liners but they had blown off. Unfortunately when we got there it was closed for one hour for lunch and Coate did not have the time to hang around.