9th infantry division vietnam 1967 bearcat

Election 2014 43) Took the water right out of the river below and kept it up pretty much all day long. 31 OctoberThe A Company Bearcat Detachment was still active. Army Life Apparently this goes on for a while and the toy starts getting closer to a navy boat. These are examples of battle-damaged vehicles. HelloMy brother served with Dco, 2/60, 9th. I was OIC of that sector several times. Convoys leaving or entering at the berm entrance, 61) Shop area Bearcat -- M88 unloads damaged M113 July One half of the Thai Black Panther Regiment stood down and was returned to Thailand. 25 August 1998. Military Working Dogs . Then they racked a 60 and scared the S out of me. . This was the sign along Hwy 15 when entering Bearcat . 59) They guard roster would get shorter and shorter whit people being exempted and then they would have to correct it. In 1966 she was sent in Vietnam with the 7th fleet, alternating between direct support on the fire line and screening the carriers. Most LO Radio Operators worked 12 hour shifts and were ready at all times to move to another operating station. I believe that the 9th moved its HQ to Dong Tam before you got there, however it's interesting that the Thai Regiment remained at Bearcat. More battle damage awaiting repair, 16) shot along highways just showing, 29) I do remember doing alot of guard duty at the 2 gates. CAMP BEARCAT, HEADQUARTERS for the 9th Infantry Division, was about one mile in length by one half mile in width, surrounded by a berm of dirt pierced by two main entrances on the western side. I stoide over to the elongated lunch table at which the male Thai Army Officers were seated. Our unit had a swimming pool between the officers club and the EM club. Long Binh was the home of the largest supply and administrative post in the I was at Bear Cat from March-November 1966 with the 1st M.P. We later flew to Lai Khe for his court martial. 19 Aug 44 Maj. Gen. Louis A Craig. There are cultural issues to be reconned with in order to become even more competetive in international markets, but the country appears stable with not a whole lot of grumbling by citizens. from sapper attack on Long Binh ammo dump about 12 miles away. that tell a specific units role in the overall picture. I was used mostly in daytime deployment. I fondly remember Bob Hope putting on a show. The division operated primarily in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam, operating in conjunction with Mobile Riverine Force and Brown Water Navy. Our unit had unofficial hookers. After the civilian Vietnamese contractors finished the structural work their crew of mostly women with their children who accompanied them to work, filled the hundreds of sand bags needed. Bear Cat, was one of our two primary spots to locate. Bearcat, our remembrences, We were in Bangkok abiut 8 years ago. 7) Dear Mr. Sanders, Thank you for posting your request on History Hub! Also Saigon -- those beautiful au-dai pantdresses. Bearcat was a favorite target for enemy harassment and it occurred on almost a daily routine. Approximately 3,000 U.S. troops of various support units were still operating at the base. Somehow I was able to convince them I was an ally. What an experience for a whole year there. . He had spent his 13 months in the field artillery creating pictures, too. Attacks 1967-68 Rocket. He had been AWOL for 8 months and was a member of the 1st Infantry Division. James, I was there when the Vulcan's first arrived. There the 9th fought with distinction in 8 campaigns as part of the Riverine Force. Personal Reflection "I was transferred to Bearcat on 6 October 1968 as an original member of the A Company detachment who took over from the 9th Infantry Division MP's. We did take some mortars or rockets one night but nothing heavy. 61) Bearcat from the air. . Vietnam Tank. Commanding General. The Looking for any others. Early in the Vietnam War, the 1st Special Forces established a base there. I too was with the 5/42 Field Artillery. To develop each roll of film, he took it to the Post Exchange on the base camp, they mailed it to Kodak for processing, Kodak mailed it back to Vietnam and, finally, Gaynor mailed the pictures home. One additional clerk had to be added to the A Company Bearcat PMO to handle the additional workload. The 104th was still operational right to the last days of the war and Australia's withdrawn. He had spent his 13 months in the field artillery creating pictures, too. Does that bring back memories? An Army Officer training facility is all that is left of our Gen. Reese M. Howell (Acting) Assistant Division Commander. 25) soldiers. S/Sgt Humes. I was one of the participants in shooting at the monkeys when the whole bunker line opened up. It was an amazing operation, handling about for hours. Just happened to see your site and it brings back alot of memories. Oct 69- Oct 70 50) If memory serves me correctly, the 2/60th was part of the 3rd Brigade, commanded by Col Murray while I was there. Live it well so that they didn't die in vain. 31 August Battalion convoy destinations in Military Region III were: Tay Ninh, Phu Loi, Xuan Loc, Long Binh, Bearcat, Long Than, Nui Dat, Vung Tau and Tan An. Wish I could remember the name of our ship. Last Shortly after arrival in Bearcat. If you're interested, I can send you a picture of Col. Meyer and the Thai commander. The 9th Infantry Division shifted its headquarters and battalion deployments a couple months after I departed in May, 1968. HQ & A Co Sunrise scenes in Bearcat. . Trail, Sihanoukville, Bearcat, Tay Ninh, Tiger Division, AN/PVS-2 Starlight scope, RF/PF, Regional Force and Popular Force militias, Armed Forces Network Radio, Kent State, National Guard, Di An Base Camp, 9th Infantry Division Association . Long Binh is now a small Vietnamese army installation and a large Industrial I am not positive the place you are getting your information, but good topic. I believe part of the camp is now a tank park. point. The USA paid for destruction of the rubber so naturally we blew it up every chance we got. Do not remember any fan but in the short time I was there I noticed some weird stuff. 5) and thank you for it. 9th Infantry Division. Untrained but inspired by combat photographers, he brought one of the eras ubiquitous Brownie camerasbefore investing $94 in an Asahi Pentax SLRto record his experience. The camp was located on Route 15, 16km southeast of Bin Ha. shot along highways just showing the land and people, 12) working the outside yard on a humongous forklift with giant tires or was certainly processed here. I was trained as a 52B40 Generator Operator/Mechanic. The Viet Cong may only have three or four men out there, but fighting from the shadows, they could exact a terrible toll. Vietnam is in a good place with exception of constant aggressions from China, especially regarding Vietnam's territorial waters, fishing grounds, underwater oil fields, land border disputes/mini aggressions duch as extending southward country borders/ surrepticiously y moving border markers southward. This was a Special Forces outpost northeast of Saigon. The unit was primarily made up of Radio Operators and it was their task to operate with an attached unit providing a link to base. shot along highways just showing, 20) Scenes All of the vertical construction is being accomplished by the Thais. The primary allied units stationed at Bearcat in 1969 were elements of the Royal Thailand Army Vietnam Forces, 173rd Airborne Division, and a varied collection of assorted helicopter transport and assault units, artillery, armor, transportation, logistics and communications elements. Their new Headquarters would be the Bearcat Base Camp in Bien Hoa Province. Before the jeep stopped rolling, Gene had his gun belt off and he was down the bank and into the water. During the end of my tour the 9th completely moved out and the Thai soldiers took over. I never made a fuss, just released contents of clear plastic bags to the breezes flowing through the company parade ground as my fine leader and man of goid humor First Sargeant "Curly"Hays stood by. Thanks for your service and thanks for writing about your experiences. For the purpose of continuity throughout this Website I have used the term Bearcat. Some categories (listed below) are self explanatory, others require some explanation (see below): Every base camp perimeter was a front line in the Vietnam War, Oh-dark-thirty: Random thoughts that wake me up in the middle of the night. I arrived at Vung Tau by ship Oct. 1966 with the 15th combat engineers. Park, including a High Tech Park. I did manage to marry with a Vietnamese lady when stationed at Bearcat. Bearcat was originally a French airfield, later used by the Japanese during World War II. Oh Dark Thirty Thank you for stopping by and taking the trouble to comment. Local kids contact team sites in bad guy country, 38) Others have connected here. We turned onto the dirt road from the hiway and headed for the edge of the rubber plantation and the area our Signal Company had existed 30 years before. To say the least, Gene was exhausted and we didnt talk about it for the remainder of that day. Approximately 3,000 U.S. troops of various support units were still operating at the base. My rifle was a National Match M-14, using 168 gr. Capitialism forces are strong and are being hugely successful. We rode slowly entering the shade of the tall rubber trees. A Special Thanks to a Friend of all Vietnam Veterans WASSI, Inc . There's more than a half million veterans participating there. Based on Hunt's experience as colonel and division chief of staff, the volume documents how the 9th Division's combat effectiveness peaked in 1969. These are examples of battle-damaged vehicles, 56) To develop each roll of film, he took it to the Post Exchange on the base camp, they, it to Kodak for processing, Kodak mailed it back to Vietnam and, finally, Gaynor, And it wasnt just a matter of remembering moments long buried. I arrived at the camp in early December 1966, we deployed from Fort Riley by troop train to Oakland then by ship to Vung Tau. I felt pretty useless at times doing busy work and wondering what was the point of me being there. sappers snuck into the Ammunition Supply Point and blew most of it I believe this was a SF camp in an old French Didn't get issued a weapon until the following day. Thank you for stopping by and taking the time to share your story with us. resting place of two brave mice who invaded someone's, hooch one night. 3rd Battalion, 39th Infantry (Infantry) Arrived Vietnam: 1 Jan 1967 Departed Vietnam: 8 Aug 1969 Previous Station: Fort Riley Strength: 818. The famous F**k - you gecko lizard. Joe Ciacio and . I was in the 9th Sig Bn at bearcat also, via USNS Barrett, Dec 1966 to Vungtau If you want to learn more about the Vietnam War and its Warriors, then subscribe to this blog and get notified by email or your feed reader every time a new story, picture, video or changes occur on this website the button is located at the top right of this page. Thank you for your service! But I had a job and had to decline. Thanks to Jack for this site. These are examples of battle-damaged vehicles, 73) Oh, yeah, almost forgot. Just seeing those clouds again brought me back to III Corps 1969. (LogOut/ Good luck locating your buddies. I remember Bob Hope and others that came to entertain, both at Bear Cat and Camp Castle which was about a mile outside the gate. it's a military film clip so no sound. During the early part of December 1965, the 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry, was in Alaska preparing for its annual winter maneuver to be conducted in January 1966 in temperatures of 50 below zero. bark was worse than his bite. and am making dioramas of 9th Infantry Division Units in Vietnam as military miniatures are my hobby. Working on my memoir-as-epic, Spenserian poem over at WordPress. VC did attack small villages and hamlets all around Bearcat. An element of the 9th's rearguard, subordinate to Headquarters II Field Forces (Long Binh Post), remained at Bearcat with the Newly arrived Thai Army Black Panther Regiment that replaced the Queens Cobras who returned to Thailand. Better thee than me Bill I was a surveyor at Bearcat May 68 to July 68. My wife an I enjoy watching House Hunters International and I was flabbergasted when I saw Ho Chi Minh City today compared to Saigon of my time. Note 37) I basically was a one man aerial port supporting the 9th's airlift requirements of men and supplies at the Long Thanh airfield. The Unit conducted combat operations around Bearcat (9th Division Base Camp) through late 1967. It's great when another Vietnam Vet shows up here, especially one who was assigned to the 9th Inf Div. 29 July The Headquarters and colors of the 9th Infantry Division, minus a rear headquarters detachment including military police to orient the Thai Division with area operations until 15 August, relocated from Bearcat to Dong Tam, IV Corps Tactical Zone, Mekong Delta until the division withdrew from Vietnam in August 1969. It is unknown if the 720th MP Battalion participated as convoy escorts in this movement. Hey. They sometimes landed on it while I was there and some (especially the Chinooks) blew pot holes in the surface which made your take offs and landings uncomfortable/dangerous. His Its a difficult emotional stress [to revisit that time] but I had to do it, he says. Veterans We operated the "clap clinic" for the girls from Rosies and others who roamed the base. 1 talking about this. Later, the division was an important unit of the United States Army in World War II and the Vietnam War. The Mama & Papasans were letting us know that there was someone in the water caught in the truck. CARR-ORLL. Got to the third strand of wire before the tower guard scanning the starlight scope saw him. (He is the only openly gay officer of the American Legion of whom he knows, he said.) bunker. Co. Our routine was 3 days of night perimeter guard, 3 days of details (mostly filling sandbags), 3 days of convoy escorts, repeat, repeat, repeat. I was with the 709th Maintenance Battalion, Company B. I was at camp bearcat january 1970-december 1970. Only about ten percent of us did guard duty. Long Binh and Bear Cat I didnt know about the agent orange spraying of Bear Cat, I lived there for eight months. 1965 - ca. I agree Jack good job. If anyone hasn't seen the video on you tube of the barrett, from 1966 check it out. More than 10,000 soldiers were located here at one time. We would wait till about 2:00 AM to make our raids. 4 July Due to a theater wide crackdown of Black Marketing activities, the Battalion was required to position one MP at the entrance and exit to the post exchange facilities at Bearcat to insure that only authorized personnel used the exchange and that customers did not abuse their rations privileges. 42) I looked at them and they all came alive again, he said. This was early in the tour before we got tin roof WABTOC I could print 100's of these The next is part of a huge rubber plantation. I was also in that transfer. 41) Parachute flares dropping from illumination artillery rounds (click to enlarge). The anti-war movement was strong and attitudes toward veterans were, he found, hostile. Buy 9th infantry division Vietnam veteran T-Shirt: Shop top fashion brands T-Shirts at Amazon.com FREE DELIVERY and Returns possible on eligible purchases Infusion, 1967: "Soldiers of the 9th Infantry Division (red, white and blue unit patches) based at Bearcat (Camp Martin Cox) are trucked to a waiting Caribou aircraft for the flight to their new units." All quotes in this caption and the ones that follow come from photographer Christopher Gaynor. 4/39th Inf. Our job was Most of the incoming enemy fire was in the form of mortars and rockets with the occasional ground probes of the perimeter defenses by the local Viet Cong Main Force units. for $1 million USD in Saigon. This is the supply platoon area, Hq & A Co. Just had my slides converted to 44 pics. The enemy was watching all this, but could not attack us., The Odd Couple, 1967: My buddies Lynch and Cork share a morning ritual at Camp Bearcat (Camp Martin Cox)., LZ, 1967: Bell UH-1 Iroquois (Huey Slick) helicopter makes a quick troop drop at a Fire Support Base near the Cambodian border without touching down., Operation, 1967: 2nd Battalion, 77th Field Artillery, 25th Infantry Division assembles at the Dau Tieng airfield in preparation for a major combat operation near the Cambodian border., The Wasteland, 1967: 9th Infantry Division soldier burns the remaining twigs after our Bearcat Base Camp was sprayed heavily with Agent Orange to kill the jungle vegetation and then bulldozed into a desert wasteland., Triple Deuce, 1967: Troops of the 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment (mechanized) get squared away to move on a Search and Destroy mission into The Rubber (the Michelin Plantation)., Richard Thomas Jackson, 1967: My brother, my buddy, my friend. It was one of 3 in country on its trial run. I can't wait to show my dad this site. Spent a relatively short time at Bearcat then went to Dong Tam. I did my Training at Fort Riley Kansas and was shipped off on The USS General John Pope. whom everyone respected. I was there Oct 66 to Oct 67. Vietnam Time line 3/5 CAV Black Knights. This Face Book Page is dedicated to the men who served and died with the 4th/47th Infantry Regiment of the 9th Infantry Division. Sorry I can't remember your face, but maybe you'll I served the next year with the 111th Engineers working water supply points throughout the area just south of the DMZ to just south of Da Nang from July 69 to July 70. Although the rear echelons (behind the lines) were considered safe in conventional wars, there were no safe places in Vietnam and standing guard was vitally important duty. We never found out his name, but it hurt. Anybody else have a similar experience? Monsoon season. I am the 2nd cousin of PFC Daniel Joseph Flynn who was killed at Ben Cat on his way to the Bear Cat base on 25th May1968. On deployment the division was assigned to the III Corps Tactical Zone of Vietnam where it commenced operations in the Dinh Tuong and Long An provinces (6 January-31 May 1967) in Operation Palm Beach. Primary aircraft were the C7A Caribou with an occasional C-130, as when we airlifted units of the 3/5 Cav up north. After ceremonies, we moved to the military mess hall, There were a dozen Thai Army Officers sitting at a lunch table. ARMY 1969 1-9th Cav Ops Report Apr . Their flight in a C-7A Caribou of the Royal Thai Air Force (aircraft mission #21) was scheduled to depart Bearcat at 0700 hours and arrive in Can Tho at 0815 hours. money from John Allison's unit. We watched it move the tree line back with no problem. I was in the Air Force seven months having "retreaded" out of the Army (1st 34th Inf, 24th Inf Div). Only worried about how good (or lucky) the guys slinging the mortars might be. Terrorism More than 500 postings have accumulated since 2011. Trying to find anything about my unit. This is the timeline of the 4/9 Infantry in Vietnam 1966-1970. . 23 March CPT Rafael Cortes-Dapena of A Company was assigned to the Bearcat Detachment as Deputy Provost Marshal. Reactivation of the 9th Infantry Division, nicknamed the "Old Reliables," took place at Fort Lewis on May 20, 1972. GENERAL 1964-73 MAC-V Tour 365 . Survey These are examples of battle-damaged vehicles, 57) The division was under the operational control of the Commanding General, Headquarters U.S. Army II Field Force (Long Binh Post). Army Vehicles. The 9th Infantry Division, the only U.S. Army division activated and trained in the United States for active duty in South Vietnam, was specifically designated to operate from a base deep within the Communist-controlled Delta with the mission to improve the security of the area so that the Government of South Vietnam's (GVN) pacification . Does anyone have any memories for a B-52 bombing raid just outside the base camp perimeter. The POW's were captured during Operation PADDINGTON. In 1969, I was a USAF radio operator with a FAC unit attached to the Thai Army at Bearcat, my last six months in country. He established relationship with the families of his friends who had died in Vietnam. Note the corrugated metal for roofing It was completely overwhelming. AAORLL's 1968. 17 May 45 Brig. in the corner of the perimiter berm. Their area of operations was the Mekong Delta, located south of Saigon. John Allison with the Banking and Consumer Finance One of my favorite slides is of a bunch of cut-off 55 gallon drums which were pulled out from under a smelly place, stacked neatly, doused with diesel and a touch of gasoline then set on fire. On 23 June 1968 the 3rd Brigade moved their operations south of Saigon into the newly constructed Dong Tam Camp in the Mekong Delta region CTZ/MR IV. Welcome Home Brothers! called Jayhawkers since the American civil war. DANA POINT, CA VFW POST 9934 PROGRAMS FOR SCHOLARS, John Paul Spickelmier, Jr Captain at Bearcat. 27 Nov 43 Brig. I separated from the Thai military nurses and my current wife. find yourself in my pics in the 3 albums I have posted there. Anyone in this crowd (including children) might toss a grenade into a truck., Bunker, 1967: Troops of the 77th Field Artillery, 25th Infantry Division hunker down in a partially completed bunker to escape the mayhem of 3,600 of our own 105mm Howitzer rounds light off at knee level in all directions. Early in the Vietnam War, the 1st Special Forces established a base there. He became a consultant on the Vietnam-reenactor documentary. Infusion, 1967: "Soldiers of the 9th Infantry Division (red, white and blue unit patches) based at Bearcat (Camp Martin Cox) are trucked to a waiting Caribou aircraft for the flight to their new . Early in the Vietnam War, the 1st Special Forces established a base there. The 104th was attached to the 1st Australian Task Force Head Quarters in Nui Dat, III Corps Tactical Zone and its primary roll was to provide reliable communications, radio, cipher, operation drafting and telephony services to the complete task force at Nui Dat and communications to other services in Vietnam. Mike Williams, HQ & A Co Commander.

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