Total Area Sprayed (sq. click here or click "back" until you The Magazine was found It was no problem during the day because either the XO or Chief were there or the secretary,interpreter (miss Nguyen). The engine suddenly stop and flames shot out the top of both side back door openings. This exhibit is now closed. The huge fuel tank was just being build on the left out of the picture. boats took place at the other base. 5440 x 3520 px (18.13 x 11.73 in.) from two times. Download this Camp Tien Sha photo now. Later after they landed it became obvious that they were throwing out the ammo boxes so they wouldn't explode when they landed. The mountain is in the background. We set the radio on squelch so it would make a lot of noise and wake us up. He spent the night at the shop bunker by himself , totally confused as to what was going on. Don't try to cross in to the base as there were mines. This is the inside of our shop.The office was upstairs and to the left. I was able to remain calm and under control and do what ever he told me but inside I was on the edge of losing it! But the better (my home base). when I was there. Danang was handling more tonnage than the port of Baltimore at the time. A smell I have never smelled again in my life time. After a short rest to pull my self together I went back and finished putting the door spring on and about that time one of my team mates picked me up and took me back to the shop. The tracer rounds stopped ,I gave it a couple minutes and got in the truck and sped on my way back to the shop! That was the LTs first rocket attack and he didn't react fast enough. The VC had taken their 782 gear (combat gear, weapons and ammo) and bugged out. We were also vulnerable to sappers . time does that. The pain they suffered was of our making and they just wanted us to go home! to DaNang. I had just been recruited to help the Doc and nurse amputate this poor farmers legs. Fishing Boats of Da Nang in thought though was he was just putting on a show for us new guys. [4]:2[2], In August 1967, the headquarters of NSA Danang was moved from downtown Danang to Camp Tien Sha. 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. It turned 90 degrees to the right and touched down between two rows of concertina wire in the middle of the perimeter. I just haven't had time for any more. Most of them would be dead by now as most of the men were in their mid forties then . . course. Nice history lesson for me. We stopped work and watched. So as May 1968 ended I had been in Vietnam for 1 month! Drinking black coffee trying to stay alert. The were riding shotgun on truck convoys to and from Danang to Quang Tri Province. From 1800 hours until 0600 we had to have some one stand watch. background old PTF Base and Monkey Guard shacks along the pipe line to the ESSO fuel plant, Oil Tanker off loading at the ESSO fuel plant. I actually took the class in 1965 but at that time you had to be 18 years old to get a Scuba Certification. . with Calif. He seemed totally comfortable and relaxed. History U.S. morning. I could see through the gauze and there was some kind of wound underneath that looked like velvet. Camp Horn is a former United States Marine Corps and United States Army base located in Danang, Vietnam. Suddenly the helicopter went nose high and stopped going forward. I was going to start building my own hooch so I would have a place to sleep ! My Vietnamese workers were hunkered down by the lumber pile about 30 ft from me.Then I noticed little puffs of dirt kicking up several feet away from me towards the north. So now I know why the sniping stopped. Then we saw a little dot far up Elephant Valley. Da Nang, Vietnam, Camp Tien Sha, 351 Days in Da Nang Ray Norton Me, age 23, sitting on my bunk drinking a beer and smoking a cigarette. Alan on Haircuts They were the best I could At that time the base fir truck showed up. [4]: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. Modern. very first day of war. The next day he would become my first hooch mate although I had to rush to get a couple partitions up so he would have his own space. The other important thing we had to do was to check the Red Beach causeway at 2400 hr. at Camp Fay. Pham Ba went around back to take a pee. I'm considered a Vietnam Veteran, due to the dates I served. Late in the day we had built them a nice hootch and had them moved in. At Freedom Hill you'll see some panoramic shots of the base and buildings (USO Club, ), likewise at Tien Sha (Snoopy's Chicken Hut, Acey Ducey Club). The new wood frame building that I did was behind the camera. Gave me the creeps then and still does now when I think about it! that's one of our generators upper left. I finished the shower and got heads all in an area I'd call around Nights in Vietnam were uncomfortable at best. 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. All in the name of saving them from Communism. The Seabee construction crews he is referring to was my crew. Fun! The bundle was given to the mother who would take the bundle out side and set it down in the dirt by the street. In other words, if you could drive a Corvair fast and survive you They were waiting for electricity and to get more beds from Catholic Charity . Inside of that trailer, face down were 2 dead Marines. 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 station hospital begun in 1965 had treated over 21,000 casualties, 44,000 nonbattle patients and one million outpatients flowing in from the hostile and disease-ridden I Corps environment. She smelled horrible! the duty jeep normally delivered the crew to the base in the It is just to heart breaking to see the suffering of the children in this world who are caught in a war! I have 'issues' from that crap hole as well.I don't want to put my email address in here publicly so how can I get in touch with you?Ernie Hodge, is this the Ernie hodge that was with the fuel crew in 1966-1967. my name is larry Kirby and my twin brother is gary Kirby if this is the same Earnie Hoge please email me at lwk472000@yahoo.vom. We assumed everyone around us had the same idealistic desire to strive to do our best all the time. So back around to the front of the hut and to work on the awning . Detachment Dong Ha - 1967 - 1970. As time passed and I saw all of these kids sick and broken I realized that most of what this clinic was doing was trying to repair the damage done to these kids by the war itself. Message is: I am looking for members that served at Tien Sha Ramp in 1968 through 1969. a lot in Vietnam. So off to Camp Tien Sha to get my gear and check out. delivering warm water was good Pett George my ex UDT instructor allowed me to go through the class early being as how my older brother Jay and my Dad were going through the class too. We got danger close rockets in that area often. On Sunday most of my team mates loaded up our flat bed truck with building materials from our salvage yard. The fire was caused by a Air or artillery white phosphorus flare ( WP). One night I was in the office with LT Branch . because of all the flares in the mountains next to the base. Looking back, have I spent 33 years The villagers brought each one of us Seabees a Tiger Beer before we left for Camp Books. Later I built a wash building and cook shack just about where these cots and the officers are standing. Any damage at FLC was my teams responsibility to asses , clean up and repair or replace so I had direct involvement in all rocket and mortar attacks at FLC. ! ever getting my hair cut at Camp We visited Chu Laiu, Hue, and our CONTACT: VETERANS CENTER OF NORTH TEXAS. I was never in harms way. China Beach, Vietnam. It was a Saturday, perhaps we were finishing up the cook shed. get a mailing address via email from Chip and What we finally did was a one man 12 hour watch. 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. Just kind of shut it off excepting that I had very little control over my situation and excepting that if shit happened ,shit happened !! as soon as they were installed. Ok, I Vietnam went on and I was done at the Clinic and never heard about it anymore until I went back to Vietnam in 1996 and tried to visit and the guard at the gate chased me away but I did find out that after the war in became a mental hospital for young people. and went on this place, wearing only "shower Here is an E mail I got from Karl explaining his arrival to Vietnam and Camp Books (FLC) The last week of May brought us a knew Chief Builder and our old Chief Botswains mate left us. 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. while we were starting the wall framing we heard the sound of a UH-1 helicopter. I had orders in September 1966 to go to "enlisted". We took 2 122mm rockets about where the crates are. He was really short, only six more days and a wake up and he would be out of Vietnam, back to the world and his girl friend Judy. Surprise, I think that was normal precaution . 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. sat idle. There hours were 0800 to1700 so it was impossible for me to go. [1], By July 1968 NSA Danang handled 350,000 tons of cargo each month for the 200,000 allied troops in I Corps. It was a horrifying thing to watch. corner and pretty balanced oversteer under power out of the corners. At the moment it happened, my buddy Dave Lozier and I were at Camp Tien Sha at the foot of Monkey Mountain. Same short blond bristly hair, same small bullet hole, and same very damn dead! maids walked in and started cleaning I am searching for anyone who may recall serving with me in the Seabees at Camp Tien Sha, Da Nang between 1969-1971. In March 1965 when United States Marine Corps combat troops landed at Danang, the support establishment was rudimentary. That's danger close to the shop! The MPs left in a hurry. This was the closest skivvy house to Camp Books , a very short walk. For the time being they were stashed in my hooch and on May 24, Karl Voiles spent his first day assembling beds. The ESSO fuel plant from the north east side where we were snorkeling. Funny thing about the base exchange was I only went there once my whole tour. we took twelve 122mm rocket rounds, there was damage again at the motor pool. meand I translated it to this map. Very often our flares would land in Hoa Kahn or Dog Patch burning down many Vietnamese huts providing more damaged children for the clinic. to LCU-1498 (same routine). I had my parents send me my Scuba diving lesson book and in what little spare time we could find we would hold Scuba study sessions. shoes" and one of the Vietnamese We had devastated their economy and destroyed their infrastructure. the two boat docks at DaNang. The green building upper right is the hooch that I built for our Vietnamese workers. at Camp Fay. Then of course there was the dreaded incoming 122mm and 140mm incoming rocket. Retro. He's shooting from a long way out and hasn't hit anyone yet. He was wearing his best short timers uniform. That was my first time seeing dead Marines. Long , long ago, far, far away on the other side of the Our electricians went to wire up the building for electricity. We all thought that everyone on this earth was doing the highest and best possible all the time for each situation. Yes that's puppy and our new steel worker (Calhoun). Maybe it's just me. I didn't think about the danger but was aware of it. That was necessary because 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. It was at maximum power and flying very fast. I have never found any but I still have hope. I never really realized the high level of tension we lived under until I left Vietnam ! On the far end of the bridge right Sometimes we could be called out 2 or 3 times in a night. When the Doc was finished he told me I could remove the stick. I needed to know which of the sound meant danger! of the DaNang Military Complex, One of and created an overlay of the changes to the harbor, which was It was kind of like the work orders I got. Back at the hootch the Seabees got in a major debate about where to put me. On 27 February 1969 a People's Army of Vietnam rocket hit LCU-1500 while it was loading at the Bridge Cargo Ramp killing 13 crewmen. All of the rounds hit in swamp area between the main base and FLC command building . Surprisingly, I never step foot on a ship, I was always stationed in Navy hospitals. barrels over the bow. Da Nang marks the halfway point between Hanoi in the north and Ho Chi Minh City in the south. The nurse was carrying a little girl about 4 years old. . We went downtown in Long Beach, and we got harassed a lot. I am hoping that my response willl stay intact and not disapear completely from here. Some of the materials for rebuilding came from my civic action salvage yard. Do you have CAMP TIENSHA, DANANG,VIETNAM Reunion information you'd like to share. If one of the other bases in our AO got hit by mortars or rockets then our siren went off and we were on red alert which meant we had to role out with weapons, helmets,and flack jackets and man our posts. Detachment Phu Bai - 1965 -1970. There was about a weeks over lap so the knew Chief could learn his job! About a mile out the crew started kicking boxes out the doors. There was a bunker there. May 5,1968 was my first rocket attack in Vietnam and you can see the hit 7 different places in my AO including my new home at FLC Camp Books. I lay there waiting for the out posts to return fire, nothing happened! On Tuesday May 14 I finished my hooch and settled into the corner right inside the door. [2] We were working with basic hand tools, cutting everything with one cross cut handsaw. Download this Camp Tien Sha photo now. What the hell is that? I was in country from June 1969 to June 1970. the correctly identified enlisted The doc had no idea but it was a sure thing she was going to die. I had a ball throwing that jeep Surprise, I think that was normal precaution . map to the right is intended to be used as a even included a week in Coronado, a week at Pendleton (weapons He left me sitting there on the steps saying he would send Beerworth down at 1700 hr to get me settled in. The Docs loved coming to Hoa Kahn Clinic. The Marines slept 12 to 14 men in a hootch. seating along the sides of the rear area. I was in Vietnam from November 3, 1968, through November 7, 1969. Anniversary story of his trip back Some time that day the Catholic Priest who was in charge of the clinic and also the Da Nang orphanage showed up . The Post office took a close hit and there was damage to 3 ambulances by sick bay and a bunch of trucks at the motor pool. C Chi tunnels. Some of the women were in their early twenties, so there is still hope. The rocket attacks after that the would be on target! Chu Lai Base Area. There was one thing that bothered me about Tien Sha. I even passed an enlisted sailor with a can of white paint and he was Whatever, I was very Well Beerworth didn't show up until 1845 and he dragged me off to the mess hall that would close a 1900 hr. the late 60's and early 70's. Soon, the fleet dispatched Naval Beach Group One Cargo Handling Battalions 1 and 2, nucleus port crew, Mine Force, Service Force, Underwater Demolition Team, and Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) units to Danang. It was a real learning experience for the three of us. One of our guy went with Babyson to the local market and bought blankets, cooking supplies, sleeping mats and food. But that only happened once as from then on I was ready. Here is the satellite view of Paperback. Every month she would send a large box of candy, cookies and other goodies. I wanted to go back and see that little girl before she died but all that next week I was to busy to get off early ( or maybe I was just to scared and heart broken). The lumber and wood crates in upper right was the start of our lumber yard. ---- I spent the rest of the day until after dark alone in the shop building a foot locker. We were supposed to protect our base generators and fuel tank from sappers. I shook my head when the CO sent you to Red Beach to exercise your idealism, knowing no one would want you there in the CB team already established. When we got there the doc wanted to show us around. I think because of all the flares in the mountains next to the base. It had been built the end of April so was brand new. So there I would be for over a week trying to keep the mosquitoes off of me by covering with the sheet and putting my head in the pillow case. Jack Shulimson . T is a history of NSA in Vietnam, which by 1969 was the Navy's largest overseas command with the largest public works department in the world. This article incorporatespublic domain material from websites or documents of the Naval History and Heritage Command. Danang. Within a hundred feet of the generators. VVA's goals . This is the near miss at our Post office. Next thing I realize he has a hold on my sleeve. Statewide Water Diversion and Fish Passage Coordinator (Senior I always had hot meals and a warm bed. Well, the Camp Tein Sha barracks got me for Friday, and Saturday. I went to my CO and asked to help. We had an air conditioner in the office and because I worked out side all day I was not used to air conditioning! While I was building the door the Doc and nurse moved in medical supplies to the shelf unit. It was what those For that action, we were awarded the Naval Unit Commendation, the highest Naval or Marine award issued without action by the President. map and make modifications, please email your All of the workers that worked for us were dislocated Vietnamese and us putting them to work was an attempt to keep their economy rolling. [3]:33, In mid-October 1968 the Deep Water Pier complex (160712N 1081250E / 16.12N 108.214E / 16.12; 108.214) on the Tien Sha peninsula was completed, beginning operations in September 1968. [1], In mid-October 1968 the Deep Water Pier complex (160712N 1081250E / 16.12N 108.214E / 16.12; 108.214) on the Tien Sha peninsula was completed, beginning operations in September 1968. Most of the time if you were First I had to do a couple hour job at the 1st MP Quonset hut. couldn't resist testing it's limits! I remember one time showering in I don't remember when I stopped doing work at the Children's clinic, Maybe the end of June or early July. New year found The Brief. When I asked the Priest what happened to the kid he said he didn't know, the kid was at the orphanage when he took over. to my new cubicle and dressed in my slightly used green utility working We were not part of the Marine Civil Affair but worked independent of them. Before I went into the Navy I had a 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. I held that little girl until it started to get dark and I had no choice but to give her to the nurse and walk back to the base. I will expect you to be able to do your job and if you can't then your out of here! Let me tell you that wasn't fun at all. Mountain. This would also give Beerworth time to get his guys out on their job. The I think he may have had scrambled brains to go with his stitched up head . I asked where she was now and he said the Priest had taken her to Da Nang to be burried! The United States used it as a major base during the Vietnam War (1959-1975), stationing Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marine units there. Guess Bruce Moore says he first returned from a 13-month stint in the Vietnam War to a "poor response." "We were at Norton Air Force Base. If you are able to extract the Some U.S. Every morning I was stripping floors and then in the afternoon waxing and buffing and cleaning the showers, normal Navy grunt work. I got my NAUI Scuba diving cerification in July 1966. I was called to active durty in July Even then every time the Doc cut through a nerve that farmer would try to fly through the roof! Guess earlier generations of residents at Camp Fay had their You'll see scenes filmed along the roads between Da Nang and Camp Tien Sha -- driving through villages and countryside, past ships in the harbor . Relations outside of combat were typified by racial tension and violence. 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. CD-ROM, but it didn't provide any new BBC News, Da Nang, Vietnam Da Nang is one of Vietnam's major ports, a city rich in history. Because I had to fend for myself I did help the newbies who moved into my hooch. And there were certainly good things there, at least in the thought about was the airbase in Danang was under attack, Style attributes. 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. Some guys were able to go through their whole tour in Vietnam in John Wayne mode. Fish and Game, as a diver/biologist, and retired as the [ Base I can still hear the snip of the scissors as the Doc cut away the flesh. We were here, This is my Poem about the farmer who stepped on the mine. There are 186 crew members registered for the Naval Support Activity Danang. Actually there wasn't a shop or office there yet, They had just divided off a corner of a large warehouse and were building a shop and office. We found the family and with the help of other refugees were proceeded to tear down their shelter and build them a house. Trying to locate: Navy member at Tien Sha Ramp, 1968 - 1969 Branch of Service: Navy Unit was: Navy Support Danang Where served: Tien Sha Ramp When served: 1968 - 1969 . I was going to have to hit the ground running if I intended to stay with this team. In this pic the enlisted We destroyed what they had and were teaching them skills that didn't even fit into their culture.
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