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Don Dawkins
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Date Posted: 18:06:19 01/12/09 Mon
In reply to:
Robert D. Segovia
's message, "VA Compensation Denial" on 19:31:25 05/24/05 Tue
Robert,
Iwas at Tan Son Nhut from about April of 68 through Mar. of 69. I am searching for some of the same info for the same reason. I was an aircraft radio repair tech. My hootch was on the same road as the PX or slightly behind, halfway between the main gate and Heliport. My claim involves sometime around Christmas season of 68. Some do-gooder Col. decided to boost base morale and place a lighted cross on an old radio antenna. Bothered me quite a bit since I wast just about under it. As expected, rocket/motar attack with one dud landing behind my hootch, one hit the heliport and one just to the left in the army compound with dead and injured. I have a base layout giving "sectors" labeled with the alphabet but I do not know who was where. I am trying to start the process by identifying which units were hit so I can research their records. Not sure what army unit was right beside us with chow hall and hootches or which helicopter unit lost a bird.I think I have a slide of the radio tower. My email is dawkinsl@bellsouth.net. That is dawkins with the small letter el. Your posting was quite some time ago so I am not sure if you will see this. Let me know via my regular email as I will probably not be able to find my way back here.
>Hello Fellow Vets,
> My name is Robert D. Segovia. I served at Tan Son
>Nhut,AFB during Nov 1968 through Feb 1969. My branch
>of service was the U. S. Air Force. My specialty was
>A.G.E. (Aerospace Ground Equipment ) Repairman.
> I have been diagnosis by the VA with Post Tramic
>Stress Disorder due to my war experience in Nam and am
>receiving treatment with medications for the last two
>or more years. I have been trying to collect
>compensation for approximately 1 year. The DAV has
>been taking care of my claim . Today, I received a
>Denial notice from the VA for this claim due to
>insuffient data. The Denial also acknowledges that I
>do have PTSD. This Denial is based on not having
>"dates, places or perhaps names" and insuffient data
>where I experienced rocket fire and mortar fire and
>other experiences while at Tan Son Nhut, AFB. This
>and other experiences of viewing dead soldiers from a
>rocket attack has added to my trama and have been
>submitted in my claim of PTSD. In my claim I stated
>that I helped unload alot of green bags filled with
>corpses and stacked them in air conditioned connexes.
>This connexes were primarily used for storing recon
>film. The connex was emptied of films and utilized for
>corpses storage. I remember that the Viet Cong were
>threating at the end of the runway to C- 130 flights
>out of Tan Son Nhut and therefore it was decided that
>it was too risky to fly-out the dead and better to
>store them at least temporarily.
> I remember during one mortar attack, one night
>while asleep, that knock me off my top bunk and
>sustained a fractured right wrist. Surely my medical
>records can attest to that, as far as mortar attacks.
>There were many "Take Cover" calls for us to go to the
>bunkers. Hey , it was every night that we had mortar
>attacks during that time of Tet. I remember seeing
>the fire works at night occuring outside of the base,
>in Saigon. I could see it from the second floor of my
>barracks where I bunked. The gunships were firing
>with tracers and I could see this all night happening
>in Saigon.
> At another time, I remember a 55 millimeter rocket
>hitting the eaves of a barracks and burying itself
>about 3 ft into the ground , right outside the corner
>of the barrack, which was surrounded with sandbags 3-
>4 ft up. That barrack was not but two or three
>barracks away from ours. I rushed to that barracks in
>my "skives" that night to help the wounded. I only
>found dead soldiers laying in their bunks and a huge
>pool of blood that felt sticky to my bare feet. The
>only guy I remember walking and wandering in pitch
>darkness was the soldier that had escape from the
>rocket explosion. His bunk was the one at the bottom
>at the corner and only 4- 5 feet away from the rocket
>landing. The sandbags saved him ! His ear drums were
>busted though and was totally deaf and in shock!
>This occurred around the early hours of the morning,
>around 2 AM. The date I don't remember.
> Does anyone have any recollection of any of these
>events by any chance?
> I need help to appeal to the VA denial notice.
>Any details that we can share and help me recall ,
>will certainly be appreciated.
> Where do I start?...to collect information for what
>the VA requires. I know that I can submit and
>request my records from archives to vertify my
>fractured right wrist. Also will help to place a date
>on it as well prove the mortar attacks.
> Hope to hear from anyone soon.
> Thanks in advance to everyone for the help.
>
> I live in Houston, Texas
> My e-mail is Stunningone@houston.rr.com
>
>
> Sincerely,
> Viet Nam Veteran,
>Bob
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