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ur more than welcome shop, my condolences about ur cousin and ur bro Mike my friend, may they rest in peace and i honor them for their service. But for the grace of GOD that could have been myself. My fathers's baby bro and MY elder brother who also served in nam; in fact, my Uncle Willis, my dad's baby bro was there at the same time i was and we actually had occassion to visit each other a couple time durin our tours, could have been either one of them as well. My Elder bro Fred was there from Jan 10, 1967 thru Jan 9 1968. I was cut short on my extension for 6 more months but he, my uncle Willis, remained there and served out his 2cnd 6 month extension which he signed on for bout 9 months after i got there. Altho no service in nam was safe, he did have it a lil better his last extension, he was a DJ for AFVN Radio( ARMED FORCES VIET-NAM) thru Febuary 1971, i was sent to Yokota Japan to the hospital on July 13, 1970, came home from there on July 30, 1970. After 45 days more of canvalescense leave I was assigned to Ft. Hood Texas. But for TDY's to Corpus Christi with the Corp of engineers shortly before i got out and a 90 day TDY to Norway for NATO trainin ops in 72, I spent the remainder of my active duty service at Ft. Hood with 1st Air Cav's 15th S and T HHQ air ops as a Turbine engined Rotory wing aircfaft Flight Engineer which is what i was in nam after AIT at Ft. Useless, errr, my bad, Ft. Eustis , VA...LOL. 6 years active, Dec 4, 1968 thru Dec 3, 1974. But for Basic, Jump school and AIT, i spent my entire military active service in the 1st air Cav. A,B,D and HHQ 229th Aviation Battalion in Nam, air support for 1st Air Cav 1/9 Art, Big Red 1 Infantry and 25th Infantry.

Only one of four of us from the neighborhood to return from Vietnam. Hard to think about it.

Heavy 7, 1965 - 1970