[Gunner]

1. Did you physically set foot in South Vietnam from 1959- 1975 ? in Laos ? , in Cambodia ?, in North Vietnam ?

1. Vietnam, Cambodia

2. Did you spend your tour in a ship in the ocean just outside any of these countries ? or in an air force base in a surrounding country ? Which countries ?

2.No

3. Branch of service.

U.S. Army

3A. Division, Battalion. Regiment, Company, etc....or in Navy, Air Force or Coast Guard, the corresponding info.

3a. "C" Btry 3rd Bn. 82nd Arty, 196th Light Infantry Brigade
3a.1. "B" Btry 3rd Bn. 34th Arty, 9th Infantry Division

4. Number of total months spent on the ground. If multiple tours, how many months spent on the ground for each one.

4. 12 1/2

5. Your primary MOS ( military occupational specialty ) the number and description. If you had multiple MOSs while on the gound, list all of them and months in each one.

5. 13E20 - Field Intelligence Asst.

6. Your R & R experience. Total numbers received, including in-country ( i.e. Vung Tau ), and where you went.

6. 2 - 1st : Tiapei, Tiawan
- 2nd : Tokyo, Japan

7. Total number of Purple Hearts received.

7. None

8. Did you earn a Bronze Star medal ( with or without V device ), Army Commendation medal ( with or without V device), Silver Star, or a higher level medal from 1959 - 1975 ?

8. No

9. Recipient of a CIB ( Combat Infantry Badge ) ?

9. No

10. Recipient of a CMB ( Combat Medical Badge ) ?

10. No

11. How many people from the high school you graduated from were killed in Vietnam and are their names on the Wall ?

11 Zero (Thank God)

12. Have you been diagnosed with an Agent Orange related disease as recognized by the VA ?

12. No - won't have anything to do with VA

13. Receive compensation from the VA for PTSD ?

13. No No - won't have anything to do with VA

13A. Retired from the military ? Number of toal years served in active duty only.

13A. No

14. Have a claim pending with the VA for PTSD ?

14. No - won't have anything to do with VA

15. Approximately how many helicopter air assaults did you make during your whole number of months in country.

15. At least 60 (both with artillery unit and as an RTO wth "B" company 3rd Bn. 31st Infantry.

16. Should Jane Fonda have been tried for treason ?

16. This question needs to be reworded; it's not "should have been tried" but "hung how many times".

17. The one duty station or firebase or base camp ( where you were ) on the ground, that you remember the most ? Why ?

17. Basecamp (Tay Ninh). Six days after the 196ths' arrival lost two close buddies to a mortar attach on Aug. 20th, 1966.

18. How many of what you would consider "close friends" were KIA in Vietnam while you were on the ground there ?

18. 6

19. If you could sum up your experience in Vietnam in one word and one word only ( verb, nouns, proper word, or anything else.. )...what would that be ?

19. Traumatic

20. If you were able to imagine all the "atrocities" commited by Allied forces ( US, ARVN, Australia, ROK, etc. ) from 1959 - 1975 as a percentage of "atrocities" commited by all Communist forces in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia ( not counting the 2,500,000+ murdered by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia from 1975 -78 )....what would that number be ?

20. .01%