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Wayne
I'm glad you and Marion found this site. In addition to being our companies small arms specialist, I always considered you kind of a beer and liquor specialist too. Did we have other brands of beer at that little club in Gie Le besides black label?
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Welcome Home Wayne. Have heard / read some good things about you. Keep on truckin !!
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DMZ-LT, Dragon Lady, Thanks. Steve's memory about this beer thing is far more 'crisp' than mine. I do remember although, a shortage of this 'sustenance' never existed in our company base camp. Meekly, I attribute this phenomena to the larceny in almost every trucker's heart; some of us were downright thieves. It's nice reading your stories. This is a great web site. WC
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MORTARDUDE I think it was more a state of mind then actual fact. I can't really remember what food was in them but it was hot and hydrated making it much easier to get down then MRE's
I bring up food hydration because the MRE's were notorious for wreaking havoc on your digestive system if eaten as a sole food source without massive auxiliary hydration. We had a SSGT go on a two week MRE diet one time out at NTC without proper hydration and she ended up in the TMC for mechanical waste removal |
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David :
We only had four choices, food-wise, in the boonies...C-rats, LRRP rations ( very scarce..not like MREs..just add hot water..were good...I traded with some ARVNs for these from time to time...), hot food flown out from time to time ( quality varied a great deal ), and every now and then, the adventurous would go native and eat Vietnamese food...some folks got real sick though...The food at the base camps wasn't bad. We would have steaks, hamburgers, and such on stand downs, altho we didn't have many of those. I got to where I liked C-rats. Being in a Mech unit, we could carry 8-10 cases at any given time, so everybody got whatever they wanted. There was plenty of fruit, pound cake, various kinds of meat, etc... The food that was flown out was not that great. It was hot, and was a welcome change. The milk was good. The cook always burned the coffee...LOL Larry
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Wayne
Reguarding the truckers being theives. I didn't know we were stealing. I thought we were mearly confiscating government property in order to keep it from falling in the hands of the enemey. No wonder they haven't sent me my good conduct medal yet.
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'Acquisitions' were made for the good of the company if I recall. I must say, all kidding aside, I don't recall anytime one of our guys 'lifted' anything of critical importance destined to the front lines. It was sort of an unwritten law. The deal with the AF mattresses was a fun story as told by Ed.
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Since there were few army units around the hue,Gie Le area in early 1968 we were not supplied very well from the army. We had to take items like truck parts, c-rations, uniforms, boots and so on. Who ever hauled things we needed, would bring extra's back to the other guys in the company. [We were one big unhappy family]
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