Bingo! Goldmine! Viet-Vets gather round (T.Nut, Tom, Saigon, etc)

A couple of months ago I posted about an eight-hour documentary on my ASA unit in Viet Nam (the 1st Radio Research Company AVN, and the ASA in general). Tom-in-Tib and others asked for copies. I am too dumb to do that on-line. But a brother ASA'er (and, indeed, a Crazy Cat) has done some of that for me! Here is link to his You-Tube site. Click on the sequence of P-2 missions, and you will know a lot more about what I did in the 'Nam. THIS SHIT IS AWESOME!

Disclaimer: All breaches of T/S Crypto censorship protocols are with the YOU-TUBE poster. I pass this on uncensored.

Beware: Boring narrator.

Kick this MoFo!

http://www.youtube.com/user/borntowander

~PEACE~

Hey, I made it to Cam Ranh for about a month once, but it took me 3 AK holes in my carcass to get there.

When was that? The hospitals in Cam Ranh Bay were not exactly SAFE. Know what I mean? VC loved to attack CRB.

I was a 1st Cav grunt; had gotten a little bit shot up on Xmas Eve on perimeter guard at a small LZ in the Nui Mieu mountains. I spent a week in a hospital in Qui Nhon & then was sent to Cam Ranh. I got out of the convalescent center at Cam Ranh & back to my unit just in time for Tet. Is that luck, or what!

I was with the 59th Field Service Unit down on the peninsula.

Also videos on Tiger Lake and the beaches for those who might have been lucky enough for an in-country R&R at Cam Ranh Bay.

http://www.youtube.com/user/borntowander

I vaguely remembered that, but not with enough confidence to mention it.

Thanks.

We used to see the patients at the beach in their blue PJs. We loved to talk with those guys. They were from the "front".

Peace, Kim

ASA is gone...but not forgotten


For everyone's enjoyment. The Ballad of the ASA
(I didn't make this up. It WAS written by ASA members...)
And for everyone's entertainment...the ASA Drinking Song--

THE BALLAD OF THE ASA
Anonymous – Many sources

( To the tune of 'The Ballad of the Green Berets", by SSgt Barry Sadler. It is helpful to remember the colors of the old ASA shoulder patch for the first two verses. )

Black is for the night we fear
Blue is for the water we don't go near
White is for the flag we fly
Yellow is the reason why.

Red is for the blood we shed
As you see, there is no red
'Titless WACs', that's what they say
About the men of the ASA.

Fighting soldiers jump and die
We're the ones who sit and cry
One hundred men will jump today
But not a one from the ASA.

Drunken soldiers, always high
Dropouts from old Sigma Chi
Men who bullshit all the way
We're the men of the ASA.

We're not trained to fight or kill
But we'll always drink our fill
Men who drink can seldom fight
And ASA drinks through the night.

Trained to go from bar to bar
That's the life that's best by far
"Another round," someone proclaims,
"In another hour we'll start our swings."

On a mid, a trick chief waits
For his men are coming in late
Men who drink among the best
'Another round', our last request.

Headphones humming in our ears
We've been cleared, so we're not queers
One hundred men will test today
But only one makes the ASA.

A teal blue scarf 'round my son's neck
Would make my son a nervous wreck
One hundred men re-upped today
But not a one for the ASA.

:hi: :patriot:

:patriot:

Thanks.

Thank you DemoTex!