Sgt Grit:
My old buddy "Tex" Keyes told me this story. Tex and Sandoval, aka Tex for they were both from Texas, went out with a line company. They were the TAC team with one carrying the large radio and the other with a case of C-Rations and water on his pack board. He said they landed in a hot LZ with shrapnel flying all over. Tex said they manage to get into a small hole with neither able to move very much. Soon Sandoval asked Tex to feel his backside because it felt wet. Tex said he felt the wetness and determined it was water. He told Sandoval you got hit in the butt and it is bleeding real bad. Tex said Sandoval got real quite and did not say anything else. When the fire lifted and they got up Sandoval found out it was only one canteen had been hit he chased Tex all over and said he was going to kick his butt. Tex went to Bangkok on R&R and brought a pet snake back to the Rockpile but that is another story. That is picture of me and Tex at A-3 in 1968.
Sandoval were you in 2/9?
were you in 2/8
those look like army utilities , are they ? As a leatherneck in nam , we wore camo utilities.
Camino was not available until late 1968.
Not all wore Camos..you can see he is wearing a Marine Corp Cover….And some places in country you wore what you can get….
In ’66 at Chu Lai we had no camo.
67 & 68 We Had No Camo.
10/67-11/68 no camo, Phu Bai, helicopter mag
I was with 3/3, H&S/Comm, MOS 2533, 66-67 at Payable Hill and the Rockpile, I shared a bunker with Tex, Knotthead and Snuffy, I remember when Tex returned from Bangkok and brought back a much needed snake to RVN. We wore OD green jungle utilities and were issued the M-14, which was later replaced by the M-16, April 1967. Semper Fi