Sexo

Male

Birth date

1950-3-16

Local de nascimento

Los Angeles CA, U.S.A.

Inducted

1968-2-9, Los Angeles CA

Tipo de alistamento

Volunteer

Ramo das Forças Armadas

Army

Tipo de serviço

War

Tipo de Unidade

Support

Unidades onde serviu

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.