Vietnam grunt stories

To the dirt-eating grunt, Vietnam was an endless succession of bummers. Not all tours in Vietnam were alike or even similar. If you were an administrative officer or clerk in an air-conditioned trailer in Saigon, your war might be a lot like peacetime duty.

You could put in your year in Vietnam and never be close to combat. Sailors and aviators were in a different world too, with perils and problems of their own. Vietnam veterans, about were in direct combat roles and at most one million were ever exposed to hostile fire.

See full list on olive-drab. Ultimately, only those who lived it can really understand how it was, what happened and why. All we can do here is point out that Vietnam ground combat was an experience that took away youth and innocence. Sometimes its worse not to die. Rites of Passage: Odyssey of a Grunt 3. The Killing Zone: My Life in the Vietnam War 4. I started collected slang while in Vietnam and ever since.

Casemate Publishers recently released Grunt Slang in VietnaWords of the Warin hardback and Kindle formats, 2pages and 5entries. Its approach to the study of Vietnam slang is somewhat different than found in other dictionaries. Extract, page 178—Example of a typical page. McGinley shares some thoughts and opinions about his humping days in the jungle - almost fifty years ago. The Vietnam Army Grunt Museum is located inside the Lynd Company’s new headquarters in San Antonio, where the Museum honors United States Army Grunt soldiers who fought on the ground in Vietnam , giving visitors some sense of what soldiers, in combat, experienced and the challenging environment of Vietnam.

A gritty, wrenching account of battle from a first-hand participant describing the chaos and emotions occurring during combat. This section is intended to give you a glimpse into the memories of a Cav grunt medic in Vietnam. I suspect this terminology was first used by rear support personnel as a derogatory remark because the noise that may have been made while humping to 1pounds of equipment on one's back. Soldiers in infantry units were referred to as being grunts. My tour in Vietnam did not get off to an auspicious start.

I was given command of a three-man 60mm mortar squad in the 3rd Marine Division’s Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 9th Marines. Vietnam Photo Galleries When you select any of the galleries below, you will be taken to that gallery’s description and photos. Once there, you will be able to click on any of the individual photos to view their descriptions and view that photo in a larger frame.

It is a response to seeing short Vietnam War years later videos on TV. These videos show two sides of the infantry in Vietnam. One side depicts the infantry fighting heroically and the other depicts the infantry committing some kind of atrocity. Most Vietnam war stories would be about leeches. REMFs and grunts may have served on the same side, but they did not serve in the same war.

A legion of butchers, bakers, and ice cream makers fed the troops. The northern zone was I Corps which consisted of battle grounds like the DMZ, The Rock Pile, Khe Sanh and the closest supply routes from North Vietnam into the south, the A-Shau Valley. I Corps was manned by conventional large scale, well arme well trained and well resupplied NVA Regular Army Divisions. Daniel Mode, contains details of his heroic actions in the heat of combat.

Among those stories is that of Marine Cpl. Ray Harton, who received. A Ranger Born tells the story of a man of arms. Robert Black, a highly decorated Korean and Vietnam War soldier wrote a book about his military adventures. Unlike a photograph it uses hues of emotional reality to create an image of personal reality.

For this reason I decided to allow my imagination to use the emotional hues of my memory to paint this story.