Vietnam Trivia

[ivalis]

6 months, cause they were officers

[Toby M]

They weren't different-they were "special"...

[MillRatUSMC]

Six months...because the was too many Officers for the few combat infantry billets.
Some wanted their ticket punched, it was bad because by than they had learned what they it took to lead in combat.
So we were left to teach other Officer.
Some Officers got killed that too required that we teach other Officer the hard lessons that we had learned.
Many left to become staff Officers.
Dang SparrowHawk, you're bring back some difficult memories...

Semper Fidelis/Semper Fi
Ricardo

[montana]

think 4 months??? least wase i remember haveing three plt. Lt's.in my one year there........3x4=13??? lol

[Sparrowhawk]

Why did some Marines only serve 12 months instead of 13 months?

This one is going to require someone in the know...

Didn't find the answer to this one, until a month ago.

LOL

[Namvet67]

Originally posted by Sparrowhawk
Why did some Marines only serve 12 months instead of 13 months?

This one is going to require someone in the know...

Didn't find the answer to this one, until a month ago.

LOL

[Namvet67]

I think the 12 month marines were reserves...however I spent 12 months on my 1st tour and got to go home for 30 days because I extended my tour. gbudd

[ivalis]

hawk, i think it had something to do w/ non citizens serving outside of the US for more than a year and how it affected their permanent non resident status.

[ivalis]

DOH, meant, "premanent resident status". I recall it was a INS issue affecting green card holders that spent more than a year out of the country.

[Namvet67]

THAT WAS THE SUPPLY NUMBER...GBUDD

[Sparrowhawk]

Don't know who they are.

Someone send me the pics, probably Hill 55?

Freedom Hill?

probably late 1967

[Sparrowhawk]

Don't know where abouts it was. I know it was somewhere near Da Nang?

Gosh darn, I was skinny..

[Sparrowhawk]

Were they different all the time/ It seemes like they changed sometime in early 1968?

I enjoyed beans and franks, perhaps because they seemed to be more filling.

I remember the day I discovered I could put the powedered creme in the coco mixture we sometimes received. Coco was my favorite drink after that.

[montana]

the spaghetti ...i liked mixing the cremer with the coco....then pouring it over the pound cake...mmmmmmm good

[Sgted]

The peanut butter !!!! (and crackers).
The little 5 cigarette packs that were a nice touch for the smokers.

Trepidation on eating food out of cans that was packed 20 years prior to being consumed. (there were packing dates on the outside cases of C-rats). In Vietnam, I saw cases of C-rats that were packed in the 1940's

It was all good.