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JimboBillyBubbaBob

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3. Hey Unhappycamper...

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Sat Nov 16, 2013, 09:59 AM

Nov 2013

My Dad was in the 11th Light Infantry Brigade, a sister unit in the Americal, out of Schofield. He was there for the Tet party, wounded three times on that tour. The last one left him in a coma for eight months, finally coming around minus his hearing, a kidney, and a good deal of his stomach and intestines. The wounds eventually took him. The operation at Son My haunted him till the end.

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Fort Hood units heading to Calif. for training in 2014 [View all] unhappycamper Nov 2013 OP

1st Cav ?? FreakinDJ Nov 2013 #1

No clue, but when they load your ass on LSTs runways are not required. n/t unhappycamper Nov 2013 #2

That is the concept of it yes. n/t shedevil69taz Nov 2013 #4

Hey Unhappycamper... JimboBillyBubbaBob Nov 2013 #3

I was an REMF (both times) and was not out in the bush. unhappycamper Nov 2013 #5