RICHARD river ROBERT sailors School served Services ships SKSN SMITH Special staff Station Hospital submarine supply Support THOMAS units Vietnam . I took all the materials that I thought I would need to build the cement forms for my strong backs. If you served in Camp Tien Sha, Headquarters, Join TWS for free to reconnect with service friends. Often the convoys would drop off kids from out in the bush. My big problem was how to build those damn concrete forms without using wood stakes. It was in a large dirt field 150 yards outside of the north perimeter. African Americans perceived racial issuesrace relations, prejudice, and discriminationin Vietnam through a lens heavily influenced by their earlier experiences in the United States. I took my time cooling myself off in that shower then went On Sunday May 19 I was dropped off alone ( The Vietnamese got Sundays off) and my job was to build steps and a door for the building. side was a barge with a sign. It turned 90 degrees to the right and touched down between two rows of concertina wire in the middle of the perimeter. Another interesting point is the H&S Co. Well I had 11 months to go and it was going to be a very long 11 months ! There are other memories of my time working at the clinic. I could see through the gauze and there was some kind of wound underneath that looked like velvet. I can still hear the snip of the scissors as the Doc cut away the flesh. It was just after 1700 so I was good. It was the UH-1 trailing smoke. loading the LSTs and loading onto trucks. Recent photo of Cheryl and me. You have destroyed my country and my family! Craig Tailor is on the left and on the right is Carl Rice who came on board about the same time as the new Chief. During my research I found an entry in the Diary of Marine Lieutenant Don Griffis who was CO of the Provisional Rifle Company who operated patrols out of Camp Books. and I was just finishing up the door. Don't go to Dog Patch at night and stay way from the prostitutes. The authorized stockage list for Vietnam was reduced from a high of 297,000 different items in July 1967 to 74,900 items in March 1971, without any loss of the high quality of support provided to the combat forces. the headquarters of NSA Danang was moved from downtown Danang to Camp Tien Sha. You FNGs get off the plane and fall in over there. Only 364 more days to go! It seemed a bit strange to see everything so neat and tidy when I heard the distant crack of rifle fire and then my brain said holy shit, somebody is shooting at me!! The doc had no idea but it was a sure thing she was going to die. "Honcho come", he pulls me around the Quonset hut, his eyes were as big as saucers! The Marines slept 12 to 14 men in a hootch. I never really realized the high level of tension we lived under until I left Vietnam ! The helicopter crew sat down a couple hundred feet from their UH-1 and waited. Da Nang is known as the tourist capital of South-Central Vietnam, with a west coast location that makes for beautiful sunsets against an impressive backdrop of lush mountains. (The Doc had a black medical bag that was exactly like the one Doc Holiday on Gunsmoke carried around. [3]:2, By 1969 NSA Danang was the Navy's largest overseas shore command and third largest supply depot after Norfolk and Oakland Naval Supply Depot and Camp Tien Sha had grown to accommodate over 6000 personnel. This is the first Poem that I wrote in Vietnam and is about the two marines killed in the skivvy house. He left me sitting there on the steps saying he would send Beerworth down at 1700 hr to get me settled in. Indianapolis, IN 46203. Keep exploring. uniform. The memory of this little girl and the events at the Children's hospital are the reason I never had children of my own. It was at maximum power and flying very fast. One night I was in the office with LT Branch . 03/11/66 - Harvey L. Engel, QM1, Lincoln, NE. When Puppy was big enough our secretary, interpreter Miss Nguyen took Puppy home with her to Danang. You FNGs get to the back of the march in columns of two over to that building. would be thinking about that meal a lot! So back around to the front of the hut and to work on the awning . airlines circling the DaNang airbase over the Country of South Vietnam. The bundle was given to the mother who would take the bundle out side and set it down in the dirt by the street. This is the Hoa Kahn clinic at the time I started working there. Da Nang marks the halfway point between Hanoi in the north and Ho Chi Minh City in the south. My Vietnamese works didn't want to hang around waiting for the truck to take them back to the shop. Detachment Hue - 1965 - 1970. The nurse laid across the farmers upper thighs to hold him in place. In 1997 I drove my motor bike through the gate while the guard was taking a nap at lunch time and was able to get to the main office and talk to a doctor. We had to give Puppy away as we were not even supposed to have a dog. to my new cubicle and dressed in my slightly used green utility working We were told that we were teaching them skills so they would be able to have a useful job. Barbee was very well liked by the labor crew. These Vietnam War photos taken by U.S. Army photographers reveal a side of the conflict that few people have ever seen. I lay there waiting for the out posts to return fire, nothing happened! Great Discounts & More! Gave me the creeps then and still does now when I think about it! I was to hear FNG My head carpenter ,Pham Ba told me about her during the week. I suppose I am a genuine hero of the Vietnam conflict. The base appears to remain in use by the PAVN. Jan 30, 2008. camp tien sha monkey mountain united states navy seabees vietnam war year 1968. So after the 2400 check in I would jump in the truck with M-16 and ammo. Get those Fucking Gooks away from that Damn trailer". He was wearing his best short timers uniform. Well sure I heard about it and even saw them down at 1st MPs. I have spent countless hours over the past 15 years driving my motorbike around the Camp Books area looking for any of our workers. At the base of Monkey mountain was Camp Tien Sha, the main Navy base. I had my broken leg cot and was living out of my sea bag. Another source for jungle fatigues was up at Camp Reasoner. He was laying on his back and we had tied his arms (wrists) to the legs on one end of the desk and then had tide his upper thighs to the other legs of the desk. DS CS: Jan 1968: 6 Oct 1972: NSGDet - at 8th RRFS, PhuBai, Vietnam. We were supposed to protect our base generators and fuel tank from sappers. The Post office was about 75 yards from my hootch. The flares were often still burning when they hit the ground. very first day of war. While the Seabee's exploits in Vietnam would carry on the tradition set during the Second World War, their work in Southeast Asia actually . We had no black out lights on our trucks so we would have been any easy target for anyone who decided that they were going to kill us! I was in Danang less than a month when the Vietcong used rockets to attack the Danang Air Base for the first time in the war, on the morning of February 27. . What has escaped my memory was the "21 club". The camp was quickly expanded to include 25 new barracks able to accommodate an additional 1700 men, together with a . It was about the most insane thing I had ever experienced and was hard for my mind to grasp what had just happened. We had fox holes around the generators and fuel tank and I would sit there looking up at that big ass fuel tank thinking that if the VC hit that with a RPG (rocket propelled grenade) I was going to be turned into a crispy critter. Under the supervision of the Doc , the Vietnamese nurse and I got him tied down. On May 15 I had finished 6 or 8 escape doors. Often times during a rocket or mortar attack rounds would over shoot landing in Hoa Kahn or Dog Patch ,providing children for the Clinic. I went back to my cubicle crawled into bed, ending my List of aircraft of the Malaysian Armed Forces, http://www.worldcat.org/title/southeast-asia-building-the-bases-the-history-of-construction-in-southeast-asia/oclc/952642951&referer=brief_results, https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/b/by-sea-air-land-marolda/chapter-4-winding-down-the-war-1968-1973.html, Articles incorporating text from Wikipedia, United States military bases of the Vietnam War. Made a very good impression on me, I didn't even consider it my whole time in Vietnam ! It became the headquarters for all U.S. What amazed me was by brakefast time at 0530 the marines had already set up a field mess trailer out side the mess hall and were serving breakfast. The Chief did manage to get bedding (Ha,Ha) I got one bed sheet and one pillow case. A smell I have never smelled again in my life time. I cried to myself on the way back to the base. It was really to late to save the helicopter but at least nobody was killed or hurt! This would also give Beerworth time to get his guys out on their job. En savoir plus sur les images libres de droits ou consulter la FAQ sur les photos. Historian, US Navy Seabee Museum. Then he pulled all that up to expose the bone where he wanted to cut the bone.The nurse held all the skin and muscle up while the Doc cut off the bones. Mostly I was just kind of mentally numb. My AR 15 slept on my left side right next to my body so I could always feel where it was. By July 1968 NSA Danang handled 350,000 tons of cargo each month for the 200,000 allied . We are the Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 1122, based in Collin County, Texas. In mid-October 1968 the Deep Water Pier complex (16.12N 108.214E) on the Tien Sha peninsula was completed, beginning operations in September 1968. He had to re arrange his schedule to accommodate me. He was standing about 10 feet from me and the first round of a rocket attack went through the ventilator on top of our building ,exactly four feet above the LTs head and exploded in the ware house bay next to our shop. Sunday late afternoons we were able to get over to the Red Beach causeway and get in some water sessions. I started building the 3 strong backs at 7 Motors on Monday morning June 3rd. It took until 2000 hours to finish that first slab. Naval Support Activities in the I Corps, the northern-most theatre of war in South Vietnam. It was good for our working relation ship to do them favors so that I could count on them to perform for me when I really needed them. Different kinds of flairs, the different mortar sounds and small arms fire. When we arrived at Red Beach the Seabee team shop was a mad house. I think he may have had scrambled brains to go with his stitched up head . He didn't mince words. " Korean Engineer's I served with in Vietnam 1968 NSA Danang,Maintenace Control Division. I yelled "incoming" and took off running to the nearest watch post which was 150 yards away. We were not part of the Marine Civil Affair but worked independent of them. Coate introduced me to a Chief Boatswain Mate who was our executive officer.The Commanding officer wasn't there( a lieutenant Junior Grade.) Yes, everyone called him soccer ball head ! "Sorry that's all we have!" She would throw dirt into the air and scratch at her face until it was bleeding , rubbing dirt into the cuts. Coate would send dog food care packages to Judy. Craig Taylor was pulled from the job to go work another project.He had also gotten cement poisoning in a cut on his foot so would not be able to help on any more concrete work. By the time I graduated from High school I was a damn good diver! In November 1965 500 men moved into the old French Army camp, Camp Tien Sha at the foot of Monkey Mountain. the fresh meat so what do I know about it. That was the LTs first rocket attack and he didn't react fast enough. A very nice book. With chow finished I had the rest of Memoir of my time served with the Navy at Camp Tien Sha, Da Nang, during the Vietnam war. She was especially friendly with our hooch mama-son. In these years, U.S. Army Vietnam alone retrograded over 671,000 short tons of supplies. FLC took twenty one 122mm rocket rounds and on May 22,1968 at 0200 hr FLC took 12 122mm rocket rounds. To know all the different sounds was to be able to read what was happening at night and how safe I was. Thursday morning we stripped the forms and started building the framing of the first building. I was one of the unlucky ones who ended up shoveling a lot of shit! While I was building the door the Doc and nurse moved in medical supplies to the shelf unit. We went downtown in Long Beach, and we got harassed a lot. I joined the Navy Reserve and went to . This comment has been removed by the author. Inside of that trailer, face down were 2 dead Marines. Anyone who tried to open that door without giving our pass word would have been shot. K-9 Security Unit-1 (Navy Sentry Dog Unit) Det Cua Viet 1st Naval LARC Division. Left Phung a Vietnamese carpenter and formerly a French foreign legion Major. The Doc first put surgical tourniquets on and took the belts off. Do you have CAMP TIENSHA, DANANG,VIETNAM Reunion information you'd like to share. Camp Tien Sha. That is the only time I had to get clothing issue. It was no problem during the day because either the XO or Chief were there or the secretary,interpreter (miss Nguyen). Yes that's me smiling up from the 122mm rocket crater. There were Seabees, Korean Philco Ford, Vietnamese all working like mad . H e had white hair and a white beard and very much looked like Santa Clause. What the F is wrong with her? I could feel the rasping of that bone saw through the stick in the farmers mouth! went by (so slowly! What ever it was we were done by shortly after 1600 hr. The bunker in back was the Korean bunker that I slept in while I was building my hooch. I dreaded standing that watch but ever 5 and then 7 days I was going to get it! That's danger close to the shop! Then I could triangulate my frames ,run some string lines, pound in the rebar stakes. Despite these positive interactions with whites, African Americans did not view the armed forces as an institution free of racial prejudice. Long , long ago, far, far away on the other side of the There were two supply tents up there and when the Field Marines (grunts) would come in from the bush they would strip off all their dirty clothes and throw them in piles in one tent then go into the other tent and pick up clean uniforms. He got the point and let me through the gate, no more questions asked. BBC News, Da Nang, Vietnam. Well I don't know how much of an impression that left on me but these guys getting killed in the Skivvy house got my attention ! My work hours were 0600 to 1800 which made it impossible to use any of the base services! Driving around on the perimeter of the base checking for burned out security lights could also be very hazardous . The guys loaded up my tool box and gave me an M-16 so I would be able to walk back to the base later. Most of them would be dead by now as most of the men were in their mid forties then . middle , Mr Kim a Korean Philco Ford electrician . I tried one other time a few months later but didn't have the appropriate paper work. You are a builder so Beerworth or Yost will be who you report too." Soon we arrived at our destination, Camp Tien Sha Vietnam, an old French encampment that had been converted by the Sea Bees into our base camp. )The Doc gave me a large stick like a tongue depressor ,except bigger. and the LT moved to the Da. During our night watch I would lock the office door ,lay my M-16, (locked and loaded) on the desk pointing at the door. Our mess hall, about 70 yards from my hootch took a direct hit on the serving line and kitchen area. I served there and just would like to hear from some of the guys that was there. Here is the letter I wrote my parents on May 15, 1968. One of them used to take me to the MACV Club located by the USS Repose. Book cover type. Well whenever I was working in that area I would sneak in the tent and find some dirty uniforms,still in good shape and steal them, put them in my crew tool box and take them back to my hooch and hand wash them ! ---- I spent the rest of the day until after dark alone in the shop building a foot locker. I felt sorry for the other guys in the truck with me . I don't remember when I stopped doing work at the Children's clinic, Maybe the end of June or early July. The Marines in that ambush had fired on me to scare me because they thought I was the duty officer making the rounds. I turned 20 years old and of coarse it went un- noticed although I had gotten a care package from Annett Burrel, a couple surfing magazines from my brother Jay and a birthday card from my girl friend Linda! while we were starting the wall framing we heard the sound of a UH-1 helicopter. I was going to have to hit the ground running if I intended to stay with this team. Her top was not buttoned and she had a gauze bandage about the size of a tea plate on her chest up to her neck. When the Doc was finished he told me I could remove the stick. Military Wiki is a FANDOM Lifestyle Community. His home of record is Carteret, NJ. I was at Camp Tien Sha from June '69 until Feb '70. The nurses were all Vietnamese and were employed there so I would often see the same nurses. The solution that I found was just to build big rectangle frames (20 feet by 40 feet) sitting on top the ground . They were simply ghettos with poor sanitation , communal water supply, no roads or electricity. When he was all loaded he told them one of the other drivers had the paper work and while they were trying to hunt down the papers he just drove away. MOS. She promised not to eat Puppy. You FNGs After the bones were cut the Doc tied off all the bleeders and removed the hemostats . I was finished with my concrete forms before noon on Wednesday . One rocket struck this barracks, but the man in this room survived by . It had been a very busy month with a lot of things happening. Drive out the back gate and about 2 miles to the Navy Seabee base. Well damn right I was scared. world in a land that nobody cared about , I was sitting in a Continental APL-30 or barracks craft in docks at Da Nang Harbor. Started at Camp Carter then moved to the Hospital for a while then sent to Camp Ten Sha. She is always with me ! Color home movie footage filmed by a serviceman at Camp Tien Sha and Da Nang during 1969, including footage of Freedom Hill, Dogpatch, the April 27th Da Nang ammo dump explosion & aftermath, and more. Often several rockets would have gone off before I even knew we were under attack ! Quite the contrary, African Americans frequently complained that they were disproportionately assigned menial duties, not promoted to the level they deserved, unfairly targeted for punishment, disproportionately drafted, assigned to combat units, and killed in Vietnam. Unfortunately when we got there it was closed for one hour for lunch and Coate did not have the time to hang around. There was a Marine listening ambush set up outside the perimeter in that area. With tears in my eyes I told the guard that I had been helping the doc at the children's clinic and he could take his fucking travel chit and shove it up his ass! I was 19 but not a drinker. ), and on the day, before I was to leave, I hitched a ride headed to Camp Tien Sha on the east side of Da Nang where I was to be processed out. So every week there would be a different doctor. The lumber and wood crates in upper right was the start of our lumber yard. Donald F. Hovanec was born on December 10, 1949. Well I answered once about the FNGs. I didn't understand at that time the danger of rocket attacks. Everyone had his turf marked out and nobody was willing to give any for me. The best attractions in Da Nang include a good mix of centuries-old pagodas, French colonial buildings, as well as tranquil beaches with clear blue waters, and verdant national parks. Drinking black coffee trying to stay alert. Then a voice came from inside the Quonset hut." We were also vulnerable to sappers . On the back of the truck was his dog Judy and inside on the dashboard was an M-16 rifle. MCB . This is the near miss at our Post office. It's claim to fame was that it had a black prostitute. [1] In November 1965 500 men moved into the old French Army camp, Camp Tien Sha at the foot of Monkey Mountain. It sure seemed longer then a month, to me it was more like a few months! Naval Support Activity Danang or NSA Danang was a United States Navy logistics support organization located in Danang, South Vietnam active from October 1965 to April 1972. . That episode followed rioting along China Beach by black . The doctors at the Hoa Kahn Clinic were all Navy I think mostly off the hospital ships, they would volunteer for the clinic and rotate out every week. I even passed an enlisted sailor with a can of white paint and he was Naval Support Activity (NSA) Danang was officially established on 15 October 1965. If it had detonated when it hit the ventilator we both would have been killed! building. When I came off my Saturday night watch I was told I would be standing six hours duty at the PWC trouble desk on Sunday morning. So now I know why the sniping stopped. He spent the night at the shop bunker by himself , totally confused as to what was going on. All of the rounds hit in swamp area between the main base and FLC command building . Target audience. The first half of my year in Vietnam (1967) I was stationed at the large U. S. base in Danang. Pilot, youre the one flying the plane. One night I stood a four hour office watch and another night I was on a four hour barracks fire watch. On the evening of May 23 we got a knew man in, Karl Voiles. While my guys were working I was talking to the Gunny in the hut. [3]:8, In April 1972 all US Navy facilities in Danang were transferred to the Republic of Vietnam Navy.[4]. There were 6 area work centers in the Da Nang AO . All in the name of saving them from Communism. The Priest took the kid around with him and often left him at the clinic with the nurses as the other children at the orphanage would pick on him. I thought the clinic was for children. Level the frames and tie them to the stakes and I would have my concrete forms complete. Modern. Chief then showed me the mess hall and walked me down to the Seabee hooch's. I just haven't had time for any more. Some where along the line the nurse had done an IV drip. Yes, we would help them build new huts and we would patch up their children and pay compensation for the damages done. I dont know a damn thing so by the time they got to us AWC# 5 we would be awake (hopefully) and report in. there was a war going on. For the time being they were stashed in my hooch and on May 24, Karl Voiles spent his first day assembling beds. I actually took the class in 1965 but at that time you had to be 18 years old to get a Scuba Certification. I would share it with my team mates but a lot of it I gave to the Vietnamese children at the Clinic or whenever I worked off base. If there was any heavy weather and to many buffer pads were jumping out I would have to go back to the hooch and roust out a work crew. On February 10, 1970, SN Robert T. Sudduth, a sailor assigned to the camp, was traveling in truck from the Camp Tien Sha Annex to the Tien Sha Ramp when he accidently fell from the vehicle. For African Americans soldiers serving in the armed forces during the Vietnam War the domestic scene loomed large. On Tuesday May 14 I finished my hooch and settled into the corner right inside the door. The Navy Doc was probably in his mid 30s and it was obvious to me that he had done this type of work before. Camp Haskins, Da Nang, Vietnam, served as headquarters of the 30th Naval Construction Regiment, who exercised operational control of Seabee units deployed to Vietnam. The ESSO fuel plant from the north east side where we were snorkeling. When we got there the doc wanted to show us around. Had fun there, especially since I had to wear civilian clothes. I arrived in Da Nang in June 1968. Suddenly the helicopter went nose high and stopped going forward. Nice history lesson for me. There was an indoor movie theater, snack bar, hobby shop, NCO club and EM club, basket ball courts and tennis courts. painting rocks. "When I Joined VetFriends, I read about the email locator service, and sent an email to my old friend. 2023 iStockphoto LP. Camp Tien Sha is a former United States Navy base located in Danang, Vietnam. Not all the time but sometimes . Vietnam Shortimer Calendar, Da Nang area, 8/69 to 7/70, Ray Norton. Camp Tien Sha, Vietnam. The pilots jumped out . Port side of APL-30 (Auxiliary Personnel Lighter) or barracks craft. Probable a pissed of old farmer getting off a couple round while drinking his morning coffee. LCM is up to port side of barracks craft. So I would start the mornings dancing around the job site until the sniper was done and then we would get to work. [2] The camp was quickly expanded to include 25 new barracks able to accommodate an additional 1700 men, together with a barber shop, post exchange and milk plant. Bet coming down the trail by the ESSO Plant east wall. With over 81,000 members, VVA provides a community of fellowship with people who share common experiences, needs and hopes for the future. I wanted to know everything about what happened to those Marines. At NSA Camp Tien Sha, an enlisted men's club was constructed. The Doc narrated as he worked, what he was doing, what he was going to do, when I should be prepared for the farmer to go ballistic! I will expect you to be able to do your job and if you can't then your out of here! Both of his legs had been pretty much blown off. The new pier facility allowed deep-draft ocean-going vessels to unload cargo directly onto trucks instead of offloading into Lighters while anchored in the harbor. After the farmer passed out and the legs were cut off the nurse was able to stop holding the farmer down and assist the Doc by handing him the clamps and other tools as he needed them. In November 1965 500 men moved into the old French Army camp, Camp Tien Sha (Tin Sa) . A love affair. 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