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July 4th – 50th Anniversary of 11th Infantry slog in Vietnam

05 Thursday Jul 2018

Posted by bydesign001 in history, National Security, U S Military, Veterans, Veterans' Tales

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Operation MacArthur 1967-Vietnam*

Veterans’ Tales by Vassar Bushmills

(This is another installment of one of our sponsors, Mike Collins, and still swaps stories with this mates from the old unit. Reunions and much beer involved.-VB)

This is the 50th Anniversary of our slog to build LZ Karen.

On the 4th we were OPCON to 3/21st Inf but were dropped off in the wrong place without right maps and wrong radio frequencies and/or were out of radio range. This was smack in the middle of the Que Son valley.

I remember Patterson and McDonald climbed up to a PF camp, trying to find out where we were.They managed to find that out and got a general idea where everyone else was supposed to be.

Then we had hump all those klicks to rejoin the artillery and the rest of the unit, most of the way without commo and not knowing where we were until we got back on the maps we did have. Cluster Fuck. We hunkered down for the night with the tracks and arty. Remember watching the firebases in the area celebrating the 4th with some serious wasting of ammo.

Next day we did that miserable, all-day hump into the Heip Duc Valley. Got to LZ Karen location at sundown and dug foxholes all night with those 175 mm and 8″ guns blasting away continuously. Memorable.

Oh! Did I mention it was also stinking hot both days.

O’Connor

Source: Veterans’ Tales

*Infantry from Vietnam, Center of Military History – U.S. Army

 

 

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Veterans’ Tales is now Alive

19 Monday Mar 2018

Posted by bydesign001 in U S Military, Veterans, Veterans' Tales

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Editor’s Note:  In follow up to Vassar Bushmills post earlier this month entitled, ANNOUNCING: Veterans’ Tales, a website for Veteran’s by Veterans, please note that Veterans’ Tales is now live as of this morning.  Below is your invitation. Feel free to stop on by and spread the word.

 

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Unified Patriots by Vassar Bushmills

Ok, now come kick the tires at VeteransTales.org.

We invite every veteran and child of a veteran to come visit and rummage through old letters and stored emails and photos and bring us some of the stories you recall from your tours, daddy or granddaddy’s, or from all those mothers, wives and sweethearts “who also served” by watching and waiting.

This will not be a political blog, but one cannot help but notice from recent events that the principal way in which the “love America” part of our culture is passed these days is through our connection to the military. It may be the only place left in America where the values of America are passed on institutionally.

Families of veterans are vastly outnumbered by the machine-like size of an education system hell-bent on destroying our ability to pass on naturally, from parent-to-child, to grandchildren, just what it means to be an American. So we will speak a lot about the “Passing On” aspect of that long line of military men and women in our histories, at Veterans Tales.

It’s one of several “Themes” Nessa and I are discussing, to create special sections at the site.

Another “theme” -, see just below Allen’s art of a Doughboy writing home from a bunker in France, you’ll see his BEER TENT, which is another, a place where vets can tell more ribald stories, as well as melancholy ones. Many beer tents end up being confessionals.

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War Gaming the Left’s Next Moves, An Introduction

13 Monday Feb 2017

Posted by bydesign001 in Progressives war on America

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Our friend and patriot, Vassar Bushmills does it again.  Enjoy.

Unified Patriots by VassarBushmills

Prologue

I’ve been saying for years that this war can only end one way, especially since it became apparent the political establishment had no taste for ending it at all. Once again, the People simply took the matter into their own hands, and now a proper majority is in charge, and, as they say, “Game on”.

Maybe it has to happen this way, but for some years now objective observers, independent of political bias, could have stepped back and analyzed this as a likely outcome if the political class continued to do things that were predictable for them to do. By connecting the several dots in a string of logic eventually these incompatible forces would have to collide in a battle of unknown duration, a fight that would continue, in Clausewitz’s words, by political means and “other means”, until there was only one side left standing.

I think Rush Limbaugh had always known this but was never able to say it publicly until recently. But it’s clear that many fine men and women in the political world can never allow themselves to think the unthinkable, that a state of civil war could exist in America. Yet here it is, at our feet, and yes, in the sense that you can say people exercising their right to vote started a war, we started it.

Now we must deal with it in a way we have never had to before.

So we have a civil war staring at us, and as other wars in the past, we will be restrained in ways the other side may not be. We have rules, they don’t. There may be punches thrown, already have, in fact, where, as usual, we only throw the second, with only one of two exceptions, one, a 75 year old man bloodying the nose of a 21 year old paid rabble rouser at a political rally. I considered that a bloody nose justified.

And I fully expect shots to be fired and blood spilled. But so far, because of our adult temperament, and despite all manner of pushing and teasing and encouragement to lash out first, we haven’t.

I think we will be rewarded for our restraint, especially now that the vast array of law enforcement resources in the country represent us and not them. I’m grateful that our side is now up on the horses, for if the Left were up there, there would be no second thought about casualties…no one to prevent them or minimize them, even no one to report them.

The election itself changed entirely the “mathematics” of the Playbook the Leftwing alliance will use in trying to derail our mission of returning the government to the People.

In the space of 2000 words, I can’t lay out the breadth of this realization here. There is much to consider, especially considering the frame of mind of the adversaries on the one hand, and whether our “hearts are in the trim” for this battle, on the other.

This is just the Introduction as to how they came by that Playbook and who their constituent players are, for in battle, we have to address each differently.

I see the battle lines drawn this way:

On one side, a Left-Democrat Party-Media Axis (I like “Axis”) whose troops are drawn from both the poorest of neighborhoods and some of the most affluent, along with associated Hessian-like mercenaries, including battalions of illegals, all backed by some sort of pay arrangement from unknown paymasters.

You will not find in the Axis armies many soldiers who will voluntarily place themselves at bodily risk. For 45 years they have been trained around the country to know how to lay down as a limp rag, so that it requires 2-3 cops to load them into the paddy wagons, or to screech bloody murder in the holding tank, making their jailors anxious to get them out, so then, in a few hours, they can be back out on the street, on a bond they have no intention of honoring, then back on the bus that brought them to take them back to their original rallying point.

It’s for this, on the annual Feast of the DC Protest, that they will roll of their sleeves and show the bruise where the cop grabbed them too tightly, that will emblemize the heroism of their sacrifice. They really hadn’t been trained to expect, fend off, or counter, that unsuspecting right cross, or the aforementioned forearm shiver from a 75-year old cowboy.

(As time goes on, expect this to change.)

You’ve already seen the red-blue maps, the Axis controlling, by acreage, less than 20% of the United States and perhaps as much as 35% of the American population. How many are actually able-bodied in the taking-to-the-street sense we do not yet know. But we do know they have great strength in many of America’s institutions; the public schools and university systems, the rank-and-file of federal and state bureaucracies, (albeit under new management), and perhaps as many as 50% of the federal courts. They are a formidable force, especially if they can knock you down with a writ.

Their field marshal(s) are as yet unnamed; a troika or central committee? A commissariat? All we know is that it ain’t Hillary or Bill. And probably not even Barack, except maybe as an advising consultant and possibly an in-waiting El Supremo, should an open position arise that requires a figurehead…but only if the risks to personal safety aren’t too, well, risky.

On the other side, arrayed against this Axis front is a firm (so far) grand alliance, the Allies, (another name I like) composed of the majority of adult working Americans, the majority of law enforcement organizations in America (with some exceptions, as we will soon see), the military, should things really get out of hand, the Republican Party base of every stripe, there by disposition, and finally some talk of the Republican Party Establishment, who, I think we should still consider as straddling the fence until we can determine whether Axis fire can be brought to bear that will be able to wilt their resolve

(In the Battle of Stalingrad, the Soviets brought in fresh, barely-trained troops by rail, and ran them straight from the rail-head to the front line of fighting, ordering them without pause into wave attacks against a hail of fire from German positions. A Communist Party cadre leader there, named Nikita Khrushchev, actually outranking the Red Army general on many tactical aspects, ordered Soviet troops to set up machine guns to mow down soldiers who turned and ran under the withering German fire. No one still knows who killed more Russian soldiers in that battle. I just thought this might be a good time to bring that up.)

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The Midnight Ride of the South China Sea Surfing Association

05 Thursday Jan 2017

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A must read, courtesy of Bob Mack.

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Be Sure You’re RIGHT, Then Go Ahead by Bob Mack

“North Vietnam cannot defeat the United States. Only Americans can do that.” — Richard Nixon

**The following took place during my long-ago sojourn in the Vietnam War. The names of my colleagues have been changed, not to protect the innocent — none of us were that — but because after almost 50 years, I can’t remember the real ones. But I can see the faces that went with them, as clearly as if I’d seen them just yesterday. Dialog has been reconstructed.**

We weren’t surfers, of course. The association was a loosely knit menagerie of Signal Corps misfits and an infantry grunt who’d been temporarily reassigned to our theoretically safe and secure locale while healing up from a minor combat injury incurred out in the Bad Bush. But the name sounded cool, and the South China Sea was close by. So that’s what we called ourselves. Hang 10, baby.

Associates had no boogie boards, but we always had reefer and warm beer in the bunkers. And we had rats, red-eyed varmints infested with plague fleas. They lived behind the sandbags and weren’t scared of anything except incoming. Sometimes we had boom-boom girls. They were warm too, but not as warm as the beer. The local Viet Cong constabulary was holed up in the nearby mountains, not doing much of anything usually, and when the boredom grew intolerable, they’d fire a few rounds at us for entertainment, haring off before the counter-mortar batteries could get a decent fix on their position. It was about as idyllic as Vietnam was ever going to get. It wouldn’t last, of course. Charlie had his lifers, same as us, and the big brass on either side is never happy unless they’re hurling their underlings at somebody’s throat. Unfortunately, this time one of those throats belonged to me.

***

“C’mon, man. I really want ya to go.”

“Are you crazy? You guys got shot at as soon as you left the gate yesterday.”

“Yeah, but nobody got hit. C’mon. Volunteer. Don’t make me order ya. The other guys are goin’. It’ll be fun. The midnight ride of the South China Sea Surfers. We’ll cruise in, pick that fat bastard up, and di di mau back here. Easy, peasey.”

“Stan, the damn city’s still full of gooks!”

“Hey, I got yer back. Ya don’t wanna live forever, do ya?”

“That’s exactly what I wanna do! I thought you was my buddy!”

“I got my orders, dipshit. I gotta go get the sergeant-major outta his billet, and I ain’t goin’ into town with a bunch of friggin’ damn FNG’s who I don’t know when there’s live Charlies running ’round. Now, you gonna volunteer for this here detail or not?”

“Aw, fer Christ’s sake, Stan.”

“That’s Sergeant Stan, Spec 4 Mack.”

“Okay, okay. I’m in. But you get me killed, and I’m gonna haunt yer sorry ass. You happy now, you persuasive prick?”

“As a clam. Grab yer gear an’ fall in by the Orderly Room. I’ll pick ya up there in 15 minutes.”

It was the third night of the Tet Offensive.

***

72 hours. After that, you shouldn’t be trusted with a cap gun, let alone a military assault rifle. I was closing on 72. We all were. Sleep deprivation is as dangerous as any other enemy. It’s probably why Giacomo dropped his weapon when he stepped on the dead gook[…]

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‘Amazing scene’: Police stand guard as Vietnam veteran’s remains returned home [photos]

13 Wednesday May 2015

Posted by bydesign001 in Uncategorized

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fallen soldier, MIA, returning home, U S Military, Vietnam War


Screenshot POW-MIA FLAG - Wikimedia Commons Public Domain

As posted last night to Twitchy:

Carolyn Ryan, Washington bureau chief for the New York Times, posted five photos to her Twitter account this morning which have given at least one reader a lump in the throat. We’ll let the images speak for themselves.

@carolynryan Welcome home.soldier to a country that did NOT thank us for our service or appreciate our sacrifices THEN.

— Thea Goodman (@TheaGood) May 12, 2015

2/5 Everyone in the terminal stopped to watch out the window as the family gathered to await his flag-draped casket. pic.twitter.com/0FLYjcdH6x — carolynryan (@carolynryan) May 12, 2015

3/5 Then an incredible thing happened. Police from all over were at the airport for a big DC meeting. pic.twitter.com/8El272j7Jm

— carolynryan (@carolynryan) May 12, 2015

4/5 Police from all over, even a British “Bobbie” pic.twitter.com/AT7X3EvJrn — carolynryan (@carolynryan) May 12, 2015

5/5 They decided to line up and stand guard alongside the family of the soldier. pic.twitter.com/UhkeJxrCGo

— carolynryan (@carolynryan) May 12, 2015

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Salute Military Flag

 

Welcome home, soldier.  Thank you for your service. May you RIP.

 

LINK:

http://twitchy.com/2015/05/12/amazing-scene-police-stand-guard-as-vietnam-veterans-remains-returned-home-photos/

 

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