I served in 1/92nd HHB from Nov68 to Jan70. Discovered this great website surfing the web earlier this year and was carried back in time. Thanks to everyone working to put it together. It brings back a flood of memories and mixed emotions. Had not spoken with anyone with whom I served in VietNam in over 32 years until exchanging email with Chuck Gall. Thoughts and memories of people and places are, or seem to be always with me. Some have faded with the passage of time and are probably best forgotten; others are as sharp and clear as if they had happened yesterday...Served primarily at Arty Hill working at Bn rear TOC with temp assignments Jan69 to C Btry helping to dig them in after their move to FB Impossible and working resupply detail at LZ Mary Lou near Kontum. Was trained 13A and was assigned to B Btry about a week before transfer to HHB. Never did make it out to FSB 6. Was a RTO, ended up classified a FA Opns and Intel Spec. Did some drafting jobs, posted briefing charts and maps, preped briefing reports, wrote up Bn and Btry reports. Pulled a lot of perimeter guard duty when not working TOC night shift. As a drafter did graphics for invitation to BnCO LTC Thompson's command tranfer to LTC Stearns July 69. Painted 1/92 on LTC Thompson's flight helmet. Did sketches for those partially overhead protected gun bunkers at Ben Het the Engineers designed and built...Remember Ron Garrett with whom I became teamed on TOC duty working a lot of night shifts together. Remember working with James Shephard, Joe Johnson, Smith, Sgt. Kaplin and Pearson; recall barracks buddies named Dave Cummings, Hawkins and Steve Jones; remember Bn XO’s Maj Bolt and Maj Riovo. Names and recollections only, the few photos I had have been misplaced or lost...Guys I came in country with served with B Btry. Bill Van Guilder and Steve St. Louis I knew from Basic Tng at Ft Bragg and AIT at Ft Sill. Rolf Torno was a good friend who was seriously injured in a truck accident on convoy somewhere between Pleiku and Dak To, was med-evaced to hospital at Pleiku, then onto Japan, and home...We all had some good times and some times that were not so good. I would welcome hearing from anyone from that time and place.
04 September 2025
- Newfield, New York
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