AirBorneHound...it's a shame ya weren't in the 1st Cav Div wid me! GOD, we had good cookies on the LZs!

Yogi...Hallucinatin' bout dem little cinnamon rolls in da can!!!

Dane...I've always wondered about just how many calories we burned in the bush when I was in Nam...ALL I know is that I NEVER got enough to eat and old pics of me show it...

Yogi

yogi

I think we may have run around the same area. Just at different times.

Went over at 166lbs. Came back at just under 130lbs. Personally, I just loved the tropical climate. Especially at the end of the day when we sat around sipping Pina Coladas.

AirBorneHound...Possibly. I was lost damned near the whole time in the bush! Hueys dropped us off and picked us up, sometimes twice a day, SOMEWHERE around Bien Hoa, Quan Loi, Tay Ninh, Phouc Vinh, Song Be and some other places I forget how to spell...I never got to screw around in any of those towns, though, until I was a REMF working wid da MPs! Now, THAT wuz da Life of Riley over there!!!

Yogi...A Co, 1/8, 1st Cav Div, '69-'70...REMF...Bien Hoa Army Base, '70-'71

AirBorneHound...Uh, U REALLY jumped outta perfectly good aeroplanes for NO other reason than being TOLD TO???

Yogi

Yogi; the LRRP was designed to meet the daily required of calories for just the situation and nothing more roughly 2600 calories if memory serves. That said I could eat more than one LRRP a day but could be satisfied with one. Until I was 48 I had a very high metabolism and I could eat and eat without gaining a pound. When we would go to winter warfare training we were authorized a meal and a half (one of the exceptions to the above) and I would eat everybodies left overs I could. I would come back with a 29" waste but I couldn't fit in the clothes as my thighs would be enormous and I had over 19" biceps but only weighed about 155 if I was lucky! So there are exceptions but under normal wartime scenarios that caloric intake if I remember correctly is about 2600 calories.

PS: What is wrong with jumping out of an object that when it is landing is in a controlled crash?

yogi

Told to jump? No. I was smarter than that. I volunteered!

When I got to Nam I wound up in a leg outfit. 25th ID.
I never knew where I was either. Was all pretty much the same.
Mostly in the Iron Triangle. Tay Ninh, Dau Tieng. War Zone 3. Boi loi and Hobo Woods. Never did the REMF thing though.


A Co, 1/27, 25th ID, '66-'67 "Wolfhounds" Grunt

So if a newbie came here to see if he served with any of this sites members, they'd have to sift through pages of bullshit. Thanks for the hijack, guys.

Posting my resume, as it were.
Just an old Grunt.

A Co 2 BN 13 IN 1981-1984
B Co 1 BN 8 IN 1984-1986
D Co 1BN 48 IN/4 BN 18 IN 1986-1989
HHC USAG/1ID/D Co 2 BN 16 IN 1989-1993 Gulf War 1
A Co 1 BN 5 IN/1 BN 9 IN 1993-1996
E TRP 2 SQDN 11 ACR/HHT 11ACR 1996-2001.

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Garsh, all you ground-pounders...

Anyway, here's mine:

20 years active duty, 3 enlisted 17 commissioned.

14 years of sea duty on six ships -

USS SEATTLE (AOE 3)
USS WADSWORTH (FFG 9)
USS AUBREY FITCH (FFG 34)
USS BELKNAP (CG 26)
USS LASALLE (AGF 3)
USS ENTERPRISE (CVN 65)

Other assignments include Commander, U.S. Sixth Fleet, Naval Postgraduate School Monterey CA and Naval Sea Systems Command.

Retired 2003.

Grunch of fruit salad, but the one that matters is the Sea Service Ribbon with six stars.

Hey Dogbreath, when were you on the Seattle ?? I was on there with the Air Det from Jul 77 through Feb 78!!

Thor -

He was on there when I busted scads of his shipmates at NWS Yorktown for dope related offenses in '81 - but he would never admit to me whether or not he waz on "Da List" LOL

Either of youse guys remember a GM named Austin on the Seattle? He used to be on the Canberra with me...

Who needs a Seattle lighter - new in box???

I don't "need" one, but it would be a nice token to have!!

There were plenty of dopers on the Seattle when I was on. The sad thing was that the Air Det had more than their fair share of them !!

That name rings a bell, wasn't he assigned to the ship's MA force ??