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We watched "The D.I." at the Silver Dollar drive-in in Phoenix back in the summer of 1956. Me, my girlfriend, and my best buddy in the backseat with his girlfriend. Somewhere around the middle of the...

I was back in Nam on my 3rd tour of duty during that time-frame, Thumper, serving as a Platoon Sergeant in the bush with the Provisional Rifle Company of Force Logistics Command (FLC) at Camp Books,...

He ("Chu Lai") must have been in either MAG-12(-) or MAG-13(-). Both of them are fixed-wing groups. Most of the Marines and Corpsmen I knew were in choppers.

The name doesn't ring a bell with me, Chuck. I was with H&MS-16, MAG-16 up in MCAS Futenma before shoving off for Danang in May of '65. I don't think he was with the H&Ms-16(-), MAG-16(-) supply crew...

I didn't have an aviation MOS. I was a 3051 with a secondary of 0311. In 1965 I was the Warehouse Chief for MAG-16 at Danang Air Base. When the UH34D operating squadrons begin to lose so many Crew...

I remember that we got our first TV in 1952 (after my dad decided that it wasn't "just a passing fad"). It was a Majestic. I was the most popular kid in the neighborhood after we got it. I had a lot...

When were you in the Corps, Old Marine? I have those exact same memories, down in Phoenix, AZ, back in the late 40s at a place called "Traders Furniture Store."

Dutch White
Prescott Valley, AZ...

H&MS-16, MAG-16, 1st MAW, 1965-66 Danang, Marble Mountain, Dong Ha.
VMO-2 Gunships, 1966-67, Marble Mountain, Dong Ha, Con Thien, Khe Sahn.
H&Hs-17, MWSG-17, 1975-76

Semper Fi, Dutch White...

Marine Barracks, Yokosuka, Japan 1961-63