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 Posted: Sat Nov 8th, 2008 07:28 pm
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 pacifichrono wrote: KenC wrote: pacifichrono wrote: Hey Ken, that looks like a fantastic experience.  Congratulations on your honor.  Wish I had more pics from back in the day.  This is one of the few I have...taken at the mouth of the Cua Viet River in early 1967.  This Marine base was later named Camp Kistler.  As you know, I still wear that watch occasionally.  It's never been serviced - ha ha.



Below is one of at least three youtube videos of my battalion (3/4) at this base.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_As6V91TWVg&NR=1

What?  You had tents to sleep in and sandbags for protection...you probably had a mess hall and hot chow, too!!! subtlelaugh.gif
I remember switching from hot chow to C-rats and back again many times.  Do you remember what that did to your digestive system?  I'm still trying to forget! ;)
No...because when we went to the boonies, we stayed in the boonies...sorta like, 90 days out and 90 days out.  We never came into base camp.  No tents...and the very rare hot meal flown in by chopper.