This page holds memories of my service in in the Army. It covers my draft, selection of AIT and enlistment, AIT, Vietnam Service, and final service in Ft. Sill, OK. I feel the need to write them down before they fade out completely. It is a Work In Progress and will be fleshed out as I am inclined.
Being Drafted
- Married Carla, 2/08/1969
- Draft notice received on or about my birthday, 2/15/1969
- Mirror Lake Seclusion
- Give away '58 Ford
Ft. Lewis, WA - Basic Training
- Selling photos 25 cents each
- Throwing away quarters
- Flu, being sick
- Toothbrush cleaning latrine
- Dress down by Drill Sargent
Ft. Gordon, GA
- Hunting w/.22 rifle
- Bamboo antenna mast
- Saturday field marching
- Bringing Carla to base
- Plymouth car, brake failure
- Car racing
- Trailer
- Samantha, Rascal, kittens (Ichabod, ??)
- Teaching classes - milking front panel
- Made instructor
- Battalion mail call - ARVN Orders
Vietnam
- Bought Ford Maverick
- Lopifido's Bet
- Battle chasing rats
- Exploding reversed capacitors
- Next echelon export
- Chicken s*** dog gets his first piece of ass
- Battalion pissing contest
- Gaining private room
- Gun photos
- Duck eggs
- Mess Hall ball sweat
- Frag warrant officer
- Night shift radio repair, deuce & a half
- PX Vietnamese rock bands
- Stacks and stacks of Schlitz beer
- Rolling beer Schlitz
- Incoming rock
- Guard duty at the bunkers
- Guard duty at the motor pool; Vienna sausages
- Pete, the cat
- Letters from/to Carla
- Shop blazers in flares
- Stereo system Teac Pioneer
- First camera Minolta SRT 101
- Aerial flares bunker line
- Claymore bunker line.
- M60 Bunker Line
- M179 Grenade Launcher tank
- Tear gas qualification
- Nerve gas qualification
- Water buffalo helicopters bunker line
- Suicide on Bunker line
- Early Out
- Ft. Sill, OK
- Personnel Clerk
- Discharge, Trip Home
- Carlsbad Caverns
- Drive Home
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