US Army 7/64 - 6/67
Ft Knox, KY E/8/3 Basic
Ft Dix, NJ AIT Infantry
7 day troop ship cruise in North Atlantic in December to Breman, Germany
3rd Squadron, 7th Cavalry, 3rd Infantry Division Schweinfurt, Germany. Assigned to Chopper assault unit, no pilots (all sent to Vietnam), reassigned to Squadron HQ as S-1 clerk (thanks to 9th grade typing teacher Mr Eckert)
Volunteered for Vietnam
Assigned to MACV (Military Assistance Command Vietnam) as infantry advisor to ARVN (Army of Viet Nam)
Reassigned as clerk in MACV HQ J12 Division (Personnel Management) in Saigon just prior to deployment to 4 man advisory team in jungle. Our office (one room) had 2 Cols, 21 Lt Cols (yes, twenty-one), 2 Majors, and a GS16. All service branches except Coast Guard were represented (even had a Navy Commander who was a fighter pilot). Top Secret Clearance.
(on our compound, MACV-3 in Cholon, Major Generals and below were not saluted because of the numerous officer types)
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Da Chicago So Side; The Village of Park Forest, IL; 3/7 Cav, 3rd Inf Div, Schweinfurt, Ger 65-66; MACV J12 Saigon 66-67; San Leandro, Hayward & Union City, CA (San Francisco East Bay Area) GO DUBS ! (aka W's)
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