I just read a story by Cpl. Charles Townsend about the Sea Bees at Monkey Mountain not letting them eat in the chow hall cause they were dirty and smelled bad. I never had that situation happen to me, maybe the grunts in his unit were to picky about what they would eat. I was with 3/7 and our ao was about 28 miles s/w of DaNang in the Que Sons. 7th Marines had to bases there, our Regt. rear was LZ Baldy also a Battn. rear at FSB RossAround March of 70 the third BN moved to Baldy and pulled road security for MCB 7 buliding route 1 from Baldy to Chu Li. The sea bees from MCB 7 dropped us off in pairs along the road for security. My best friend Mike Galleagher and myself made friends with some of the sea bees who we were guarding. After a while they invited Mike and I to stop by their club and visit them. As most marines will know we didn't get much beer at the Marine E-club they were usally out of beer. We decided to visit our friends at the sea bee compound one nite. We asked them if we could have a cold beer and some food. Our friends got togeather and said if we would eat what ever they would prepare we could have cold beer. They gathered up some roaches and flys and said eat thoes and heres yor beer. You wouldn't beleve how good roaches and flys taste with cold beer. So next time your hungry trust our sea bee friends to provide, just dont be so picky. ( true story )
J. Michael Depew, pfc 3/7 69-70 served 10 yrs got out Dec.78 as a SSgt.