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PHOTO COURTESY OF GUY ROBINSON
EMAIL: sonche[ at ]aol.com
This is a picture of the Vietnamese Navy RAG base. We had a boat dock attached to the end of their dock because at this time we had too many boats to tie up to our dock. We were located between the Vietnamese Navy and the Vietnamese Army bases. I hated to stand watch here because I was surrounded by Vietnamese. At night you would be the only American there. There was a park next to the restaurant. At night there would be Vietnamese men and women having sex there and encouraging us to watch. Some guys would watch them with binoculars. The first thing I thought of was they were trying to distract us. So, I would start throwing grenades in the water and threatening them with my rifle. This would upset the RAGs because they would live in their boats. Too bad. One night the American advisor tried to sneak up on me thinking I was asleep. He was only wearing green underwear and camo paint. I really enjoyed humiliating him. Guy C. Robinson
MY THO
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I was prepared for a year of bad chow after what they told us in
Survival/Counterinsurgency school. When I arrived, we had fresh meat and
vegetables. I thought it was great. One day while I was eating I noticed
the guy next to me watching me eat. I didn't know him and he was making me
uncomfortable. I asked him what he was looking at. He said aren't you
going to pick the bugs out of your bread. I looked at those sesame seeds
and they had legs. I found out that our food was coming from the
Vietnamese market in MyTho. I went down to the market and after looking at
the meat I ate a lot of C rations. Guy C. Robinson
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The Picture on the right of the Base Yoeman on a bicycle is at the gate to the river base.
All my pictures were probably taken in the fall/winter of 1966 because after I took this picture I walked over to the left and sat down with my back up against a diesel generator to wait for transportation to lunch at the Victory Hotel. A grenade came over the fence landing against the opposite side of the generator. The guard who is partially visible in this picture received a scratch on the back of the left hand just breaking the skin. I received a small piece of shrapnel in my left temple and my right knee and ankle. He was awarded the Purple Heart. I refused to accept it. I figured if I accepted a Purple Heart for such an insignificant wound I would probably get killed or get my legs blown off. A year later the shrapnel worked its way out of my temple. I had the others cut out a few years ago. Three weeks ago my wife dug some more out of my ankle. After this I didn't carry anything that wouldn't save my life. |
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EMAIL: BMDAMMEKCowan[ at ]aol.com |
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