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Date Posted: Sat, Mar 18 2017, 10:29:24 PDT
Author: Steven Hall (Hall)
Author Host/IP: 76-234-224-141.lightspeed.irvnca.sbcglobal.net / 76.234.224.141
Subject: Re: Combat Veteran?
In reply to: Jim Randall 's message, "Re: Combat Veteran?" on Sat, Mar 18 2017, 9:26:33 PDT

Some Marine and Army personnel think that Air Force and Navy personnel had the life of Riley in Vietnam. But, many Marine and Army personnel who were support troops had tours in Vietnam that were far easier than what many Navy (PBR crews) and Air Force SPs experienced. In the mid seventies, I met a AF mechanic who was stationed at Cam Rahn Bay and Phan Rang. He said he spent a lot of his off-time with the "ladies", high on drugs. He told me that when the base got hit by rockets, he and his buddies would stand on the roofs of the hooches and watch the rockets hit the base a mile or more away. I realized that his experience in Vietnam was totally different from mine. It all depended on where you were and when you were there. When I run across a haughty Marine or Army grunt who thinks the Air Force was beneath them, I ask them if they ever really got in deep trouble in the bush. When they answer "yes", I remind them that it was guys like me that protected the aircraft that were sent to pull their fat out of the fire. Do the combat grunts deserve recognition, "Hell, Yes!" but they should not denigrate those of us who did our jobs to protect them. They need to see the whole picture. They protected us, we protected them.

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