Sexo

Male

Fecha de Nacimiento

1950-3-16

Lugar de Nacimiento

Los Angeles CA, U.S.A.

Inducted

1968-2-9, Los Angeles CA

Tipo de Alistamiento

Volunteer

Afiliación Militar

Army

Tipo de servicio prestado

War

Tipo de unidad militar

Support

Unidades a las que sirvió

US MACV

Especialidad militar

74C20 Pers. Acct. Spec.

Asignado

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

Retirado

Oakland CA

Responsabilidad en la unidad

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

Responsabilidad individual

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

Batallas principales (si sirvió en una zona de guerra)

No major battles.

Reconocimientos, medallas, menciones (individuales o de la unidad)

Nothing special - just regular service awards.

Condiciones de Vida

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.

Recuerdo más vívido de la experiencia militar

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.

Lo que más extraño durante su tiempo en las fuerzas armadas

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

¿En lo personal, qué obtuvo de su experiencia militar?

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.