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November 21st, 2010, 06:15 AM
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#31 | | Scout Sniper
Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Iowa
Posts: 743
| Can't believe I came back to this thread !
But it was a night at Chu Lai , RVN during 1970 that as I had way too many barley pops along with my fellow Marines that as I was in a deep recovery mode in my room on my bunk that a 122 mm rocket slammed into the sandy ground about 150 yards from where my carcess was sleeping , never even heard it hit !
I was up doing my things such as getting the cargo ready to load on the first plane when it landed that morning at the plane terminal where I was always stationed , worked and lived at and there were alot of military personal standing around a big hole in the sandy ground by where the planes would be taxied by before being parked to unload & reloaded !
Well later on , I went down and grabbed the biggest piece of medal in that hole of sand and later sent it home at the Army post office , how those folks there got to know me , HA !
Here are some photos of it ! 
PS. What part of the rocket is it ,and is it rebuiltable ?
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December 30th, 2010, 05:18 PM
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#32 | | Grunt
Join Date: May 2010 Location: Minnesota
Posts: 81
| My bros
I got both my brothers back from RVN.
#1 bro ...Marines at Khe Sahn during Tet
#2 bro...US ARMY MAC-V SOG
1st tour > Hatchet Forces
2nd tour> Recon staged out of Phu Bai
His second tour is why I did not go...Sullivan Act.
Thanks bro !! I'm sure I would have gone...91Bravo
(Infantry Medic)
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December 30th, 2010, 05:56 PM
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#33 | | Moderator
Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: New Mexico, USA
Posts: 4,728
|  Research, still the only game in town......
What I brought home was two picture albums full and a side envelope of pictures, MPC notes from series 661, 681 & the last one 692, plus some of the local Dong, the standard propaganda leaflets that were dropped along the DMZ in the north. My best jungle jacket, pants and my best pair of jungle boots, a few P38's, plus my Boonie hat. A couple of head ban's, beaded necklaces and a pair of rings. 
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January 2nd, 2011, 02:13 PM
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#34 | | Automatic Rifleman
Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Great American Western Desert
Posts: 145
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I had a friend, a Corporal in the Corps that was at Con Thien for a while and later got a job at Danang in Customs/hold baggage. We had been buds in Sentry Dog School at Lackland before Nam.I wont mention his name but his home was Albuquerque and he sent home several items that would be both valuable and illegal now. He kept trying to buy my M16 Submachine Gun off me but no deal. He gave me a Browning 9mm handgun for my personal use at Danang. He said his 5 footlockers made it home to his Dad. I never heard of a war in Albuquerque but he would have been well equipped to end it if it had started. He went home just beore me and I never talked to him again. I hope he turned it all in and stayed clear of the QCs in Albuquerque.
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January 2nd, 2011, 03:43 PM
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#35 | | Scout Sniper
Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Iowa
Posts: 743
|  A little known fact !
I dressed up as an Army soldier to mail stuff home ( 35 small cardboard boxes ),as I was a Marine ,wonder who he dressed up as to get 5 footlockers home as they were a prized item in Nam plus being heavy to mail !
PS. I thought about sending a Grease gun home , but decided against it. Was a good thing that I did cause my CIB Nam grunt brother-in -law was opening my packages back home unknown to me , looking for camo jungle trousers , which he took two pair of ( for fishing , he claimed ) ! 
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January 2nd, 2011, 07:00 PM
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#36 | | Automatic Rifleman
Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Great American Western Desert
Posts: 145
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Originally Posted by carpshooter  I dressed up as an Army soldier to mail stuff home ( 35 small cardboard boxes ),as I was a Marine ,wonder who he dressed up as to get 5 footlockers home as they were a prized item in Nam plus being heavy to mail !
PS. I thought about sending a Grease gun home , but decided against it. Was a good thing that I did cause my CIB Nam grunt brother-in -law was opening my packages back home unknown to me , looking for camo jungle trousers , which he took two pair of ( for fishing , he claimed ) ! | He was the guy that inspected and cleared the outgoing hold baggage. he had no problem sending home whatever he wanted. I saw one footlocker before he strapped it closed and it was a sweet collection just in that one.
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March 5th, 2011, 05:15 PM
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#37 | | Old Salt
Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Dixie
Posts: 1,846
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I brought back the American flag that flew over my ship during the Tonkin Gulf Incident in August 1964. The flag was all smoked up by stack exhaust from the ships diesel engines. With the crap going down in the Gulf of Tonkin with the two American Destroyers being attacked our skipper want to make darned sure that our forces could ID us as a US vessel, so he ordered a fresh new flag run up the halyards. The Signalmen took the old flag down and cut the brass off of both ends of it before I was able to get up to the signal bridge and get the flag from them. I took it down to the emergency radio room where I stashed it away in my sea locker until we got back to the world in Feb 66. I still have that flag hanging in my shop building to this day. I washed it when I got it home and a lot of the black smoke stains came out but it's till pretty dirty. I wouldn't take anything for that old 48 star flag. What a US Navy warship was doing with a 48 star flag as late as 1964, I have no idea but that's what the flag is.
I also brought home some reel to reel tapes I made of naval gunfire support mission we were on but I lost those in a divorce a long time ago. I still have lots of pictures and three boxes of 35mm slides that I've never seen that I took while we were over there in 65. I've never had an opportunity to see the slides because I've never owned a slide projector.
I brought home a Case sheath knife that I wore on my belt over there as well as some trinkets I picked up in Hong Kong on R&R. I also have two cigarette lighters with my ships motto and shied on them as well as some MPC and **** money.
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March 7th, 2011, 06:10 AM
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#38 | | Rifleman
Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: us
Posts: 77
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A lot of us tried to leave everything we could there including memories. This is the first time I have talked about it except for telling my wife last year about it. There was a girl "Suh Ling" over there who wanted to get out of nam and we became very close. I was going to bring her home. She was the first girl I ever loved, I know wrong thing to do!!!!!! Well I was young and stupid. Anyway my last memory of her and of over there was when she was killed by an explosion. That when our div. was pulling out. Between that and my weclome home in SD I buried everything for almost 40 years, never said anything to anybody including my wife of 30 years. Now just being able to talk about some things. I found this site it is like finding some old buddies.
Anyway talks for letting this old dog talk for a moment.
OOH RAH
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March 7th, 2011, 08:48 AM
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#39 | | Grunt
Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 123
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Originally Posted by Paliden A lot of us tried to leave everything we could there including memories. This is the first time I have talked about it except for telling my wife last year about it. There was a girl "Suh Ling" over there who wanted to get out of nam and we became very close. I was going to bring her home. She was the first girl I ever loved, I know wrong thing to do!!!!!! Well I was young and stupid. Anyway my last memory of her and of over there was when she was killed by an explosion. That when our div. was pulling out. Between that and my weclome home in SD I buried everything for almost 40 years, never said anything to anybody including my wife of 30 years. Now just being able to talk about some things. I found this site it is like finding some old buddies.
Anyway talks for letting this old dog talk for a moment.
OOH RAH | Welcome Home Brother.
Semper Fi
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March 7th, 2011, 04:34 PM
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#41 | | Platoon Sergeant
Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Oklahoma
Posts: 380
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My sorry butt..............Mike 
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March 13th, 2011, 10:05 AM
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#42 | | Newbie
Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: West Virginia
Posts: 4
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I managed to send home two Jap Rifles. One was a 7.7 converted to fire 30-06 and has a Rock Island Stamp under the receiver. The Chrysanthum was ground off. I'll let you speculate on that, then I'll tell you the history later. I also send home a Jap 6.5 Arisaka Type 44 Carbine, pre war so the quality is good on it. I have never fired it but have kept it clean and rust free just in case I get the urge. The other my youngest brother has been killing deer with it for the past 30 years. I could tell you story about an M2 Carbine and banana clips and a few thousand rounds of 30 cal ammo. That trick damn near cost me a few years but I got lucky on that. I guess you might count the steel that is still in my hand and leg from a mortar round or the diabetes and Multiple Myeloma from Agent Orange. The MM is incurable but treatable, hell I am 65 now so if its terminal I may die of old age first. I have a lot of memories of a lot of great guys and a few other things I would just as soon forget.
ANGMSG
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April 1st, 2011, 07:33 PM
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#43 | | Rifleman
Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Southeast Michigan, USA
Posts: 53
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Black & white photographs inside an old Kodak Brownie box camera. The film was wound and inspector saw the "window" was empty, so he didn't open it in order to confiscate the film.
Shrapnel, ...an unwanted bunch of souvenirs as there ever were.
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April 15th, 2011, 09:37 AM
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#44 | | Grunt
Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Whitewood SD
Posts: 87
| What sort of stuff did you get home from RVN
I am setting on it.
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October 30th, 2011, 12:41 PM
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#45 | | Fire Team Leader
Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Oklahoma
Posts: 219
| stuff brought home
I brought home 1 chinese belt buckle with a red star on it I took off a NVA Col. I poped one day, a chinese hat with a red star off another NVA officer, a leatlet urging use to surrender and telling us how well we would be treated.
Some weapon's better left unsaid what they are.
My stuff disappeared one night when my crazy cousin took my duffle bag and did something with it. Haven't seen any of it since 1971.
Greg
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