Veterans: Check in if you've been in a combat zone with people shooting at you

[unhappycamper]

Me: Tet of '68 and the invasion of Cambodia in 1970.

Outside of a small case of PTSD and a really bad attitude I came out the other side OK.


SSG unhappycamper
US Army: 1963 ~ 1973
198^th Light Infantry Brigade
25^th Infantry Division

[ProgressiveProfessor]

1. Yep, even shot back

No psych issues, injuries latter forced me out of uniform. Important part of my life even today.

[hardtravelin]

2. Yep, Still in...

Been doing this since '85. Ranger Regiment 85-89; NG 90-95; back on active duty in '95.

Just returned from AFG. Never quite get used to the loud bangs around the house.

[Jackpine Radical]

3. 1st Cav, infantry

II Corps & I Corps, 1967-68.

3 AK holes.

Came back & joined the peace movement.

[lazarus]

4. well

I used to post on Usenet, and the Religion/Theology forum here on DU. Does that count?

USAF 1984-1988
Can't remember the unit, because I hated it. Commander was a tool. I got my revenge, though...

[Gaedel]

5. Vietnam

Vietnam, May 67=May 68, 92nd Engineer Battalion
Vietnam, Jul 72-Mar 73, left early when Henry the K declared "peace with honor"

Stayed in till shafted during the Carter admin (Vietnam Vet, shot at and missed, shit at and hit) so i stayed in the reserves and got my retirement pay at age 60.

[unhappycamper]

6. Where were the 92nd Engineers?

My first trip was at the airbase Chu Lai.


one edit to change the word 'was' to 'were' in the title. D'oh

[Gaedel]

7. 92nd Engineers

I went over with the battalion in May 67. We started out at Long Binh and built the post up to get the log base out of Saigon. Then we moved out on the roads to build the Line of Communications north to 1st Inf Div and 25th Inf Div. We built the big bridge over the Saigon River at Phu Cuong. I ran a rock quarry located between Bien Hoa and Di An at a place called Xom Tam. Most of the rock and gravel used in the 1st Inf Div and the 199th Inf Bde areas of operation came from my quarry.

[cliffordu]

8. Just south of the Hai Van pass. 1970

Bad attitude, a little of the ptsd.....

Same same.... number ten crocodile.

[mailman82]

9. 67

Second Battalion Third Marines 67-68