Gender

Male

Birth date

1950-3-16

Place of birth

Los Angeles CA, U.S.A.

Inducted

1968-2-9, Los Angeles CA

Enlistment type

Volunteer

Service branch

Army

Service type

War

Unit type

Support

Units served

US MACV

Military specialty

74C20 Pers. Acct. Spec.

Stationed

Basic training - Ft. Bliss, TX; AIT - Ft. Huachuca, AZ; Viet Nam

Separated

Oakland CA

Unit responsibility

MACV-HQ-Wr room, controlled all operations; MACV -Cords - Assisted all advisory groups in II Corps

Personal responsibility

MACV - HQ - Coding classified info on all operations (statistics); Cords - clerk coordinating supplies and orders between HQ and field units.

Major battles (if served in a war zone)

No major battles.

Awards, medals, citations (individual or unit)

Nothing special - just regular service awards.

Living conditions

In Saigon - lived in barracks until found a place in town. In Nha Trang - slept in barracks while at HQ - in the field - slept wherever - when ever. Entertainment - saw movies, watched live entertainment on base or in town; drank a lot and did a lot of drugs.

Most vivid memory of military experience

The friendships - they were sincere and true. Other than my family - difficult to say have had friends like that before or since. The friends were literally 'brothers' to me.

Missed most whilst in the military

Peace - It (death) was always very near. I missed the innocence of childhood.

Most important thing, personally, to come from military experience?

Do not trust the government. They will lie and mis-inform people, believing they are right in doing it. A comon phrase stated repeatedly in the war-room was the people in the states do not understand what we are doing here. They continually rationalized the lies they told.