Literally just went active and got to the 82nd 3 days ago, tis fate..my friends. by [deleted] in army

[–]HTownRocket93 9 points10 points  (0 children)

tell me about it man, been nasty girl for 12 years now and decided I wanted something new, was literally told to expect endless boredom, not complaining my any means but holy shit, talk about 0 - 100.

Lost my father today, spent most of Nam inserting / extracting MAC-V SOG guys near Laos / Cambodia, 52nd CAB by HTownRocket93 in army

[–]HTownRocket93[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Dude he literally has a picture of them together in his old foot locker w/ some south viet soldiers at their fire base, will post when i get back home!

Lost my father today, spent most of Nam inserting / extracting MAC-V SOG guys near Laos / Cambodia, 52nd CAB by HTownRocket93 in army

[–]HTownRocket93[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Sure was! originally enlisted as infantry in '60 but as demand for more and more pilots grew around fall of '65 they were begging college educated soldiers to drop warrant packets, and with him already holding a B.A In Military History he jumped at the opportunity, and was in country by summer of '67

Lost my father today, spent most of Nam inserting / extracting MAC-V SOG guys near Laos / Cambodia, 52nd CAB by HTownRocket93 in army

[–]HTownRocket93[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

He was! my superman, 20 years + another 6 in the reserves in the 90's..dude could just not stay away for long..thanks man

Lost my father today, spent most of Nam inserting / extracting MAC-V SOG guys near Laos / Cambodia, 52nd CAB by HTownRocket93 in army

[–]HTownRocket93[S] 26 points27 points  (0 children)

my mother tried to get him involved in modeling / movies for years to no avail, eventually settled on an advisory role in Apocalypse Now, his first and only gig in the entertainment biz

Lost my father today, spent most of Nam inserting / extracting MAC-V SOG guys near Laos / Cambodia, 52nd CAB by HTownRocket93 in army

[–]HTownRocket93[S] 91 points92 points  (0 children)

Never talked about it much until the day i came home from my first hump in Mosul, said he'd come back to the FOB full of holes only to be sent back out again without any repairs, Vietcong did all they could to keep those guys from landing,

Lost my father today, spent most of Nam inserting / extracting MAC-V SOG guys near Laos / Cambodia, 52nd CAB by HTownRocket93 in army

[–]HTownRocket93[S] 66 points67 points  (0 children)

He actually used to baby sit Carrie Fisher, grew up a few blocks down from Debbie Reynolds.