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Comments by W. R. Hunter on Wednesday, June 11, 2003 at 19:58 IP Logged IP Logged
5th.Amtracs,A Co. 1rst Platoon,26th Marines.RVN 1969 and Schools Bn.-1rst Tracs,-2nd.Tracs,-3rd Tracs(RVN1970),-4th.Tracs(Tampa) YAT-YAS
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Comments by John "Frenchy" Lariviere on Wednesday, June 11, 2003 at 15:38 IP Logged IP Logged
Served with 1st 'Tracs in Cua Viet and My Loc as a radio tech. (2841) with A Co. and H&S Co. Moved with the Bn. to Camp Schwab, Okinawa in July/Aug. '69 till I rotated home. Good site.
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Comments by Michael Ashworth on Wednesday, June 11, 2003 at 08:22 IP Logged IP Logged
1st Amtrac "B" Co. 4th Plt Cua Viet, C-4, Oceanview, and other various exotic places in that wonderful vacation spot.
Nov-67 thru Dec-68
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Comments by RON SAVAGE on Tuesday, June 10, 2003 at 12:22 IP Logged IP Logged
I WAS WITH H&S CO., HOW 6S,IN '65'66
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Comments by Philip John on Friday, June 6, 2003 at 14:16 IP Logged IP Logged
H&S Co. 3rd Amtracs 67-68. Great site.
Major USMCR (Ret.)
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Comments by Colonel Steve Cote USMC on Thursday, June 5, 2003 at 02:56 IP Logged IP Logged
Col Steve Cote former CO Combat Assault Battalion (formerly 1st Amphbian Tractor BN), 3RD Marine Division 1998-2000. Also 3rd Tracks 80-82 & 84-87, 2D Tracks, 91-94, 4th Tracks (I&I Little Creek, VA) 94-96. Great WEB Site! I was a company Commander (Alpha, 3rd AABN) for LtCol Don Head - a great man and mentor who I miss very much. YATYAS and Semper Fi
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Comments by Peter Freeland on Tuesday, June 3, 2003 at 13:55 IP Logged IP Logged
Assigned to 1st Tracs May 69 at Cua Viet. Bn.Supply Most of the unit was gone. Took a nice boat ride on LST 1077--Park County to Okinawa. Tractor watch in the well deck. Couldn't stand up only lay down. GySgt Gerald O'Chel living in Mich. as of last year. Agent Orange screwed him up while with the 26th Marines. Miss those supply guys.
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Comments by P.J. Saxton on Monday, June 2, 2003 at 18:29 IP Logged IP Logged
I served in Amtracs since March '46 in the 1st, 2d, 3d AMPHIBIAN Tractor Bns; TVSBn; Ist Armd Co, 11thMarRegt; MCT&E Unit; I&I Staffs, 1st, 4th and 12th Amtracs, USMCR; LVT Project Officer, Phil,Pa., and retired 1Sept81 in Hawaii.
Was in 1st Tracs in '47,'52-53, '57-58,'71-72; 2d Tracs, '58-60; 3dTracs,'54-56; 1st Armd, '68; T&E,'50-51; I&I, 12th Tracs,'47-49, San Francisco; 1st and 4thTracs,'61-64, Tampa, Fla; Last LVT job was as CO, 1stTracs,Okinawa,'71-72. I do have some LVT photos.
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Comments by Lenny America on Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 19:16 IP Logged IP Logged
I had just got to DaNang and a week later we moved up to Qua Viet. I remember getting shelled 3 days after we landed, and we didn't have much in the way of bunkers for safety. I later was sent to a single platoon on an island off of Hue. Was there at Tet and later returned to Qua Viet just in time to experience the fuel dunp getting hit. I remember it burned for days. I was in H&S motor pool. Sorry I don't remember any names. Great bunch of guys.
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Comments by Dave Herron on Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 17:45 IP Logged IP Logged
served with BCo.4th plt. 3rd Amtracs have lot of friends who served with 1st Tracs.I really enjoyed the story about ltcol Don Head, served with him several times after nam He was no goat roper thats for sure,any of you guys know Danny Maldonaldo ? would love to hear from him. SEMPER FI MARINES
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Comments by wayne clark on Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 13:34 IP Logged IP Logged
Nice web page I served with 3rd tracks in chu lie and marble mountain my track was 3B43 any track rats living around new york should try and come to the reunion in july
Semper Fi
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Comments by T.J.Smith on Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 06:15 IP Logged IP Logged
1st Amtrac's 3rd Mar.Div. March 66--November 67 Nam. Danang untill May 67, hill 55, Monkey Mt. Marble Mt. Happy Valley, Namo Bridge. Cau Viet May 67 untill November 67. All over the north, DMZ area. Most of the operations. We are working on our 4th reunion July 25th,26th,27th, check out our web site.
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Comments by Jim Lynch on Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 05:51 IP Logged IP Logged
I was with 3rd Trac's in 66-67 at Chu Lai. After Gunny O'Rourke moved on, I took over as platoon sergeant of the
E-1 platoon in H&S Co. We had a great bunch of damn good Marines over there. Originally, I was trained (who remembers Camp Del Mar back then at Pendleton (ha))with the How-6's. Just before 'Nam they put them in mothballs at 29 Palms. I still have a great photo that was taken of the How-6 Company just prior to being disbanded in 1962. That's when I went into the E-1's. Great experiences back in those days. I think all the time of Charles (Nicky) Nicastro, a corporal and a friend, who was killed on his first mission in-country. He wasn't supposed to go overseas, since he had only six months left on his enlistment. A truly painful irony. I recently heard from Lt. John Lane, who was our plt. leader for a while over there. He was a "mustang" and retired as a captain. A lot of water under the bridge since then, but I still hold all those memories very, very close. Semper Fi.....
Jim Lynch, S/Sgt, 1833/1831, 1959 - 1967
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Comments by David French on Friday, May 30, 2003 at 20:20 IP Logged IP Logged
Hi I was with bco.4th plt.3rd. amtrac blt.june 67 aug 68 danang marlbe mountin 410 was my tractor. I hit land mine on patrol around marble mountin. Went on Blt. landing teem Jan.67 Quang tree provence, Qua viet river, Dmz. I hit a land mine being towed down river. I had a frend roy p doughtry we called him doc. I sure would like to find him . He was from Pennsylvania a two year wonder.I went to Quantico for my last 18 months. sure would like to hear from anyone I served with.
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Comments by Col. John E. Harms on Friday, May 30, 2003 at 19:21 IP Logged IP Logged
During Vietnam I was the Commanding Officer of 1st Armored Amphibian Bn, 11th Marine Regiment from 1 Sept 68 till 15 May 69 when our command was cadred. We had six LVTH6's with 1st Tracs at Cua Viet as their primary artillery support as will as infantry support in the area. From 3 Sept 78 to 3 June 80 I was the Commanding Officer of 3d Assault Amphibian Bn, at Camp Pendleton. Had a many great tractor rats in the Battalion, Lt. Col. Don Head, and Col. Jack Mack to mention only a couple officers. So many exceptional SNCO's the list would go on a long time. After selection for Colonel, our family was sent to Hawaii and I became the G4 FMF Pac. After a second career with BHP Petroleum Hawaii, and a third as a counselor at Kahuku High and Intermediate School, we have settled down in Hawaii. Anyone visiting please get in touch. PJ Saxton and David Steffanson are here and we are in constant touch. Semper Fi
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Comments by Al Brown on Friday, May 30, 2003 at 13:21 IP Logged IP Logged
We gone down the path a ways from AmGrunts. Hope you all are doing well! As some of you know I was with A Co. in the Comm. group with Hugh Connelly, SSgt. John C. Yates, and a bunch of other great guys. We spent time with every Plt. in A Co. so sorting out names and faces after 35 yrs. is very tough. It probably doesn't matter any more anyway, none of us could pass for that 20 something Jarhead anyway. As Hugh pointed out in his entry we had some very bad times but we also had some very good friends. I'm in the L.A. area and up for a visit if any of you get out this way.
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Comments by TOM CANTIELLO on Monday, May 26, 2003 at 07:49 IP Logged IP Logged
I JOINED THE 1ST AMTRAC BN. IN FEB 66 AT CHU LAI,WENT UP TO DANANG,THEN TO PHU BAI,THE UP TO CAU VIET,LEFT V.N NOV 67
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Comments by Albert R. Bowman, LtCol USMC, on Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 14:18 IP Logged IP Logged
I was Commanding Officer of the Battalion at the Cua Viet
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Comments by Marv Folkerts on Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 18:02 IP Logged IP Logged
Came over to Vietnam with 3rd Tracs A Co from Del Mar on the USS Tortuga. Landed at Chu Lai Aug.66 I was trained in H-6s and 6 new one's came into Da Nang and was transfered up there. I was crew cheif on gun 1-6. While there SSgtTony Rameriz took over the 2nd section. He had recruited me into the Corps in 58. It was ironic to meet up with him. We had numerious contacts with VC and did alot of fire missions. Please contact me for any reason. Marv Folkerts MSgt USMCR Ret
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Comments by Wayne Anderson on Monday, May 19, 2003 at 22:44 IP Logged IP Logged
I was with H&S Company 81MM mortar section attached to 1st Amtracs at C-4 and oceanview...dec. 68 until the 3rd marine division pulled out of viet nam and I was sent south to 1st marine division, I really enjoyed being with all those guys....great bunch of Marines......Semper Fi
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Comments by Hugh Connelly on Monday, May 19, 2003 at 22:43 IP Logged IP Logged
I was with the Comm. Platoon in "A" Co. from mid-December '66 to mid-December '67, from DaNang with a side attachment in support of 1st Marines near DaNang and then to Cua Viet in April '67. As do most AmGrunts during the early months at Cua Viet, what I remember most is some of our fallen comrades. The names that stand out the most are Cpl. Land whose AmTrac was sunk by a VC RPG attack while on resupply to 2/1 on a river outside of DaNang (PFC Kramer died in that incident, too); I remember when Sgt. Kistler was killed and when we had our first KIA by friendly fire, Pvt. Lake; I remember our dentist taking a direct hit on his tent; I remember watching Lt. Jory get shot in the head about 15 feet in front of me and my assistant radio operator, J.E. Cole, getting his arm nearly severed by small arms fire, but safely med-evaced; I remeber LCpl. Friel taking a direct hit in the hole across from me on patrol NW of Cua Viet from friendly artillery; I remember Cpl. Tom Soliz (who would always take my AK-47 with him on patrol) getting blown away in an ambush; and, as do many, I remember SSgt. John 'Butch' Yates (who re-upped for another tour only to be killed trying to save a driver in a flaming tractor); I remember Tom Nusbaumer getting seriously hit in the lower half of his body by a mortar during Hickory II north of Hill 31 (but I'm told he survived). Of those who definitely made it back, I remember Maj. Huston (Big Red), Capt. Jamieson and Capt. Johnson, of course, Sgt. Al Brown (and his tale of how happy he was that he had chosen Tahiti for R&R:-),1st Sgt. Metz, Sgt. Hutchinson,. And, I'll never forget Lt. Bailey throwing grenades about the length of a football field at a machine gun emplacement atop a sandhill north of Cua Viet. (This, minutes after he had taken away a young Marine's M-14 for shooting up a 7-ft. brown snake he saw slithering towards him from a tree branch.)
Let me mention that my memory wasn't nearly as good as it sounds. I've spent the past couple of weeks reading Gene's well-done complete Command Chronology of the Battalion for my time in-country and beyond. Here's to Gene for all of his excellent work!
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Comments by John F. Thompson on Monday, May 19, 2003 at 22:38 IP Logged IP Logged
I served with Aco.2nd.Plt. from july 67 to aug.68
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Comments by Guy W. Brown on Monday, May 19, 2003 at 22:37 IP Logged IP Logged
I WAS AT CAU VIET NOV 1967 DEC 1968 I WAS WITH HS CO ANDACO. I WAS A 2533 RADIO OPERATOR SPENT TIME AT C4 MAI XAI TAI ALSO DID SOME RECON PATROLS AS THE RADIO MAN I REMEMBER CROSSING THE CAU VIET MANY TIMES BY SKIMMER BOATS AND ALSO THE INCOMING ROUNDS WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM ANYONE WHO WAS THERE AT THE SAME TIME.
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Comments by Poindexter Martin Johnson on Monday, May 19, 2003 at 22:36 IP Logged IP Logged
The web site is excellent. One might even say it is outstanding. Thanks to Gene Miller's many hours of work, he has presented a site that is enjoyed by many Amgrunts, Tractor Rats, and others alike. New and interesting things are being added all the time to make it continuously interesting.All this takes me back to my tour with 1st Tracks as s-3 beginning 4/5/67 until reassigned as CO of Company A on 9/22/67 until 3/5/68. If you are an Amgrunt and have not begun yourrecord of personal experiences while in 1st Tracks, you must do so in order to be included in the history being written. At the 2004 Amgrunt reunion in Florida, historians from the USMC (Gray Research Center, Quantico, VA), will be interviewing those who have written their accounts for the "Amgrunt History." Don't be left out. Write your personal account. Send it to me as an e-mail(s) or put it on paper as a personal account. If you need the historian's e-mail or mailing address, contact me via e-mail. Semper Fi, Poindexter M. Johnson LTCol USMC (Ret)
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