Camp Kaiser 1969---1970

Comments: When I arrived in Korea in 1969 I was assigned to Camp Kaiser, our unit was out in the field at phase line papa. Does anyone remember the location of that area from Camp Kaiser? I was in the 1/17 7th Inf Div.support plt. at Kaiser until june of 1970.

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Service in Korea in 69 and 70

Comments: Would like to know the advocate on the agent orange issue for men that served in Korea in the late 60's and early 70's? I developed symptoms while I was in Korea and continued shortly after returning home. Seems as the years pass more symptoms seems to be appearing.

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Fellow Vets Serving in Korea 1969-1970

Comments: I AM VERY INTERESTED IN HEARING FROM ANY FELLOW VETS WHO MAY HAVE SERVED AT THE TIME I WAS IN KOREA OR WHO MIGHT REMEMBER ME. I HAVE RECENTLY BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH LUNG CANCER AND WAS WONDERING IF THERE ARE ANY OTHER VETS WHO WERE THERE WHO HAVE SIMILAR PROBLEMS RELATED TO AGENT ORANGE EXPOSURE OR WHO MIGHT JUST LIKE TO SHARE OLD STORIES.

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Freedom Bridge

Comments: Just looking for some of the guys I servrd with Dec. 1967 til Jan 1969 2nd Bat. 23rd Infantry

Keywords: Charlie Block, Freedom Bridge,32nd parallel, OP Maisy GP Jane

Honest John Rockets 1959-1960

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Keywords: 42nd field arty.honest john rockets

looking for anyone who knew charles O mally who was killed in korea in 1968 or 1969

Comments: IAM LOOKING FOR ANYONE WHO KNEW OF A CHARLES Omally who was killed in korea in 1968 or 1969 he was with co a 1st bn 23d inf 2d inf div please contact me woodburymarvin@yahoo.com or call me collect 1-207-865-0445 thanks guys marvin.

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looking for someone who served B Co. 2nd of the 17th Infantry 7th Division at Camp Kaiser 1969-70

Comments: looking for some buddies between May of 1969-70 concerning a riot or anyone stationed at Camp Kaiser during that period.

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October 23, 1968

Comments: Looking for anyone who remembers October 23, 1968 DMZ Ambush. One man Killed David Turner. Wounded Hunt, Williams, Sharp, German, Sereano. please write to me on my e-mail address r1895@msn.com Thank You: Robert Hunt

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18th. Military Police

Comments: Looking for anyone who served with me from Mar '60 til Apr '62 in Fort Benning or Camp Kaiser, Korea. Lost all contact with my 18th. MP buddies. Would appreciate an email if you ever served with me during my year at Benning or Korea.

Keywords: Unchon-ni, Camp Kaiser, Fort Benning, 2/3 Inf, 1/11 Inf, Military Police, Kelly Hill

Troop Ship USAS Gen Danial L. Sultan

Comments: Departed Oakland late Jan earily Feb 1964. Met three guys and cannot remember their names(age I guess). We got off for 24 hours in Honolulu and rented a pink and white jeep and drove all over the main island and had a great time ( I have photos) Would like to know "where are they now" and renew friendships.

Keywords: Hawai Japan Korea

71st Arty (HAWK) 64-65

Comments: I arrived in country in Feb 64 and was there until Feb 65 Arrived via troop ship the USAS Gen. Danial L. Sultan. Spent first couple of months at Hq Btry at Camp Red Cloud before being transfered to B Btry near Camp Casey. Would like to hear from fellow soliders who I served with. B Btry 2nd BN 71st Arty (Hawk)

Keywords: peoples, Max O Whitfield, Richard Running many names I cannot remember

MANCHU BROTHERS

Comments: ANYONE THERE WITH A CO 1/9INF 2ND DIV? PEDRO CHAVEZ WHERE R U BUDDY??

Keywords: CAMP CUSTER, CAMP CASEY, GP LUCY IMJIM SCOUT

MANCHU BROTHERS

Comments: ANYONE WITH A CO 1/9 INF 2ND INF DIV 68-69. PEDRO CHAVEZ WHERE R U BUDDY?

Keywords: CAMP CUSTER, CAMP CASEY, GP LUCY

We Lived in Interesting Times

Comments: Guys (and Gals):

We truly lived in interesting times, in the Chinese sense of the expression. We who served in Korea after the 1953 cease-fire agreement learned that the agreement meant different things to different people. When I was on orders to Korea (in 1965) an NCO in my unit who had just returned from Korea told me that I should read Fehrenbach's THIS KIND OF WAR so that I could understand a little better where I was going to. I laughed, but read it. I told the NCO it told of a war that ended in 1953. He told me I should understand that the war was not over, and that I would learn that fact when I got there. I did. So did those of you reading this who went there. That war DID NOT end in 1953. You know that, those of you who went there and who served as "forgotten men and women" at a time when our nation had forgotten Korea, and, most especially, when our nation was paying a much bigger blood price in Vietnam. We were forgotten. When we talk to veterans of the 1950-53 war we elicit curiosity on their part, because they feel that their terribly costly war ended in 1953. They look at us with curiosity. Vietnam vets look at us as lucky people who got to go to a "peaceful" part of the world when they went to a very dangerous part of the world. OK. In comparison, our twilight zone was alot different from their war. But we spent sleepless nights, and we, too, conducted ambush patrols. And we learned how heartless and utterly ruthless the NK's were, even at a time when our fellow Americans at home considered them creatures of the past. They never went away.

So, brothers and sisters of the 8th Army, I salute you and all your efforts of the post-1953 phases of the Korean War--all phases. Some were relatively quiet phases, some were pretty "active" phases. Some, in Army Regulations, qualified us for right-sleeve combat patches, some did not. Some even doled out combat pay, and (a few) CIB's.

But all of you gave of yourselves, gave of your youth, and got little or no thanks for it.

We honor one another. That's what counts.

I salute you all,

Cody

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Hq btry 3rd nb 81 arty I corp arty 65-66 Camp Colbern

Comments: I served in hq btry from 6-65 - 7-66. 3rd bn 81 arty. I am looking for any who served there. We were at Camp Colbern, I corp arty.

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looking for john leslie crawford

Comments: please i need to get ahold of my father i need to know if he is still alive.he lived at 4329 hughes st wichita falls texas when he was in the airforce.please email me if there is any information on him or call me with information on him my phone number is 832-559-7300

Keywords: looking for john leslie crawford.last was at sheppards airforce base in 1968.he was an airman for the airforce and i believe he was an aircraft.

Happy Easter C Co 31st C Co. 1st Bn. 31st Infantry Mechanized

Comments: Just wanted to stop by and wish everyone a Safe n Great Easter ! Pro Patria doughboy

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B Co. 11th Engrs. Camp Stanley, Korea

Comments: I would like to hear from anyone I served with from Oct.,1968 to Nov.,1969 B Co. 11th Engr. Batt. Camp Stanley Korea

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uss southerland 64-68

Comments: I was aboard the southerland from 1964to 1968.I got out of boot camp 9-04.I was to report to valiejo calif you guys beat this ship up in korea.i spent 6 months in a barracks The only part of the ship was her hull.they did a complete construction on her.Than we took her to san diego.2 trips viet nam Harv CS3

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looking for friends

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Keywords: I'd like information on Clarence Howze who passed away at Camp St. Barbara around 1962.

Looking for Jim Cantwell KMAG Yongsan Garrison 1969-70

Comments: I lost my PC memory and address book. Jim and I had exchanged some info re our units. I now have some B&W photos of the Blue House and local scenery to show him.

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Looking for old friends

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Keywords: Interested in e-mailing persons from the 512th Maint Co 1967 --68

Looking for Buddies HHC 3/23rd Inf Jan 68-Apr69

Comments: Looking for the guys who were supposed to meet me in Chicago on Sept 11, 1977 for a reunion. What gives, no one showed up. Especially looking for my best buddy Mac Reynolds.

Keywords: DMZ 68-69, Camp Dodge, Camp Lawton, Mac Reynolds, Ken Rahtz, Sgt Glasen

A Battery 2nd Battalion 71st Arty 38 Brg/AGENT ORANGE

Comments: I'm hoping that some of you will contact me at my email address or call me at 248-396-9334 est.AGENT ORANGE WAS sprayed along our inner/outer perimeters of the tact site fence line. What i need is some other people who recall the spraying in APRIL of 68 to kill the foliage.......I JUST HOPE ALL ARE WELL AND IN BETTER SHAPE THAN I. Sincerely,

SP-5 Dale P. Elliott aka superskinny

Keywords: My nick name was superskinny/flint....looking for other people in my unit at the same time or after i had left 6/67-8/68....James(shabby ) shields, vanwinkle, ifland(iffy) collen cobert, Fitzpatrick, SSG hinton, 1st LT. Brunner,2nd LT. David Kropp, Lt. Greenwood, Westbrook,Akles,T. willams,M. grant and so on.......Hi All

3/23 Inf, 2nd Inf Div, Feb 69 - Mar 70

Comments: I served as Signal Platoon Leader and Battalion S-1 under LTC Bobby Tharp with the 3/23 from Feb 69-Mar70. Would enjoy hearing from anyone who served during those months. As many of you may have already discovered, Mark Higginson's book "North of the River" brings back a lot of memories. So does this website. Best wishes and thanks to all who served.

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Looking for

Comments: I was an MP stioned at F Battery in the launching area as a security guard & would like to locate others that were there with me John Pantallion,Bob Hammock,Tommy Sanderson,kleinschmidt Thank You RD

Keywords: looking for soldiers that were with me in 1963-64 in Korea F battery R D Ramsey

Incidents at DMZ or/and camps nearby

Comments: Please allow me to use your very informative site for my attempt to search for my own past.

But let me first present myself: My name is Lene Eul/Wul-Soon Yang/Pedersen. I'm a Danish Korean-adoptee (who is now living in Italy), and who desperately is trying to rebuild a puzzle from the past. And I wonder if anybody out there, who served in Korea in the years 1968-1970, could help me.

What I'm trying to do is to re-construct my past from which I have only vague body memories. To these memories is a strange feeling to in some way or another being connected to the American troops or/and camps north of Seoul - in the area around Uijeonbu and Tongdoochon. A couple of years ago I happen to get the chance to visit Camp Casey - and I had this very strange feeling that the place felt familiar. Almost like I'd been there before.

This has finally given me the courage today to ask this question, which has been nagging me for quite a time now. I would like to know if anybody, who has been living in one of the camps nearby the DMZ have a memory or knowledge of a young Korean woman, who died (or someone found dead) with her baby/little girl in the years around 1969 (or 1968)? I believe the girl was around 1-year old, but she could have been younger or older. Or/and that this Korean baby was brought to or went through Camp Casey (or one of the other camps nearby) - and then abandoned/transfered to the Yangju Baby Home in Tongdoochon, where KWAK, Sun-Yong was superintendent?

I would therefor be very grateful, if anybody could provide or help with ANY kind of information related to this subject, even that it seems meaningless. Thanks a lot for your patience - and forgive me to disturb you on this personal matter!

Best regards Lene Eul-Soon Yang

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27 Nov 1968 Kangnung helicopter crash 6th Aviation Platoon

Comments: On Nov 27, 1968, first husband died while stationed in Korea with 6th Aviation Platoon. He was TDY and there was some infiltration along the east coast at the time. The crash was in the Sea of Japan and the bodies were not recovered. He was declared dead in January, 1969. There doesn't seem any place for people who died after the declared war. I have a news bulletin.... the war was still ongoing in 1968!!

Keywords: Julius Harold Ingram, Chief Warrant Officer, Kangnung, 1968 fatality

DMZ Buds-HHC 1/32 7th Inf. Div. 69-70

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Keywords: Billy Story, Fred Duke, Bob Anderson or anybody else who worked in the motor pool contact me.

HQ Co., 304th Signal Bn, Camp Coiner Korea

Comments: This site has sure brought back a lot of memories: the sounds (NK buggles and the NKs on their firing range),the smells,the horribly hot and humid times before the Monsson season and of course the bitter cold winters. We got caught in a blizzard and I really thought we were going to freeze to death. We had so mmany clothes on that we couldn't get to what we had to get to to piss, so we did it in our pants. Some of the guys got frost bite of the genitals. Despite these, we managed to have some good times. If any of you are still around, I'd like to hear from you. I am also curious to know when the 304th broke up and got relocated. Finally, if anyone knows of any unit citations we got please let me know. I know we got a Presidential Unit Citation, but from there on IDK.

Keywords: Nickname: The Pad Friends: Alan C. Wlson, James L. Young, Jack Forestall, "B Brunny Bro," "Lem" Unrhein,"Duck" Drake, Sgt. Sunega,Sgt.Major Roy J. Rhoades, Maj.Purkhiser,and Lt. Col. Earl J. Holliman (BN Commander), many faces I remember, but names I've forgotten.

38 Air Defense Artillery - Agent Orange

Comments: I am looking to hear from anyone who served with any of the 38th ADA units. I am trying to build a history of who and what we were. The first cav and the second inf and seventh inf have rich and glorius histories, richly deserved, but the 38th has no history. Some of our men have been affected by the agent orange spraying in the sixties and some state the early seventies. A large trailor of leaking barrels of agent orange was buried outside a Korean village in the late seventies.I am looking to hear from our men to build a history we can be proud of and hopefully we can get to know some of the men who walked the same route we did. I also need to hear from people who know about the spraying of agent orange outside the DMZ. The more information we have the more we can help our men get the benifits they earned and deserve. If you have or know of any information that will help our men please contact me, support our troops.

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looking for buddies 1965-1966 seoksu-dong korea

Comments: looking for 83rd ORD BN 7th ORD 260th MP 1965- 1966

john lanager, jesse hornbeak, howard cook, gary gordon, wilbur norman, and anyone else in that unit.

Keywords: looking for 83rd ORD BN 7th ORD 260th MP 1965- 1966

john lanager, jesse hornbeak, howard cook, gary gordon, wilbur norman, and anyone else in that unit.

JSA 1967-1968

Comments: I WAS IN THE JSA MP UNIT IN 1967-68. LOST 2 FRIENDS THERE IN AN AMBUSH ATTACK BY THE NK'S IN APRIL 68, SGT. ANDERSON AND PFC WOODS. LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING FROM ANYONE WHO WAS THERE DURING THAT TIME FRAME OR ANYONE WHO SERVED IN THE JSA. RON ABIGILL

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Help me find my buddies

Comments: Please contact me.

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John A. Lirk Moosehead Lake, Minnesota

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Steven C. Carthew Los Angeles, California

Help me find my buddies

Comments: Please contact me.

Keywords: I was called "Big Red". I am looking for:

John A. Lirk Moosehead Lake, Minnesota

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Steven C. Carthew Los Angeles, California

Libby Bridge DMZ Korea

Comments: Served with H-3-1 in 1954 at the Libby Bridge on the Imjin River doing guard duty We only had a toe hold on the north side of the river on the south side of Hill 229. Wood like to hear frum others that wuz there with me. Long way back. Doing R&R in BKK now. Write and join me. yor pal al.

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69/69 Co B 13th Eng 7th Div Korea

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Keywords: bridging the injun summer 69 working on 2nd Div soil...building bunkers........

camp cassey

Comments: looking for friends i served with from jan.68-july 68

Keywords: b battery 1st and 31st arty.

1/9 Inf. 1/506 Inf.

Comments: Whats this about C.I.B.'s for dweebs like us?

Keywords: Andy,Big Nick,Johnny Blade"chilly",Marsh,Four bit budweisers in the barracks,NewHumvee's,E.I.B., M.A.C.E.,Bolton,Fringar... Too many and much to list,also trying to remember.

Looking For The Shipmates of Robert Squires

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Keywords: he might have went by the name of Bob and was on the APA-37 in 1968

GP Martin, DMZ

Comments: I was attached to several grunt units on the GP's of Martin, Katy, and Lucy in the summer of '69. In October, returned to main compound of Camp Pelham at Sonuri, where the Donut Dollies for the 2nd ID were also stationed. Was XO of C Btry, then BC for a couple of months until a large group of captains arrived and took command of all of the batteries. I became assist S-3, operations and went on FTX's with 23rd Inf, 9th Inf, 38th Inf, 4/7th Cav, and 1/72 Armor. My novel, entitled "North of the River" is a very fictionalized version of my tour. It can be previewed on www.dmznovels.com Would love to hear from the old gang. Bob Broome, Larry Proudfit, Jack O'Toole, Tom Rainey, etc.

Keywords: DMZ, Camp Greaves, Camp Pelham, 7/17th FA, GP Martin

7/17th FA 1969-70, GP Martin & Pelham

Comments: I was attached to several grunt units on the GP's of Martin, Katy, and Lucy in the summer of '69. In October, returned to main compound of Camp Pelham at Sonuri, where the Donut Dollies for the 2nd ID were also stationed. Was XO of C Btry, then BC for a couple of months until a large group of captains arrived and took command of all of the batteries. I became assist S-3, operations and went on FTX's with 23rd Inf, 9th Inf, 38th Inf, 4/7th Cav, and 1/72 Armor. My novel, entitled "North of the River" is a very fictionalized version of my tour. It can be previewed on www.dmznovels.com Would love to hear from the old gang. Bob Broome, Larry Proudfit, Jack O'Toole, Tom Rainey, etc.

Keywords: Camp Pelham, GP Martin, DMZ, Camp Greaves, Bob Broome, Larry Proudfit, North of the River

B co. 1/38th 1966-67 DMZ

Comments: I served in the DMZ from November 1966 until December 1967. the day I left is the day my unit shipped "south". I don't know what happened to them and I see little reference to my unit during the time I was there. It was as if we didn't exist! My unit was B company 1Bn, 38th inf.

Keywords: DMZ, GP duty, Chang Pa Ri

B CO 3/23 INF 2ND DIV MAY68-JULY69

Comments: Just looking for anyone who remembers being there

Keywords: call sign FAT CITY

2nd Div 3/23 Brothers

Comments: looking for anyone who served in b co 3/23 69/70 co was capt young op was beryl would love to e mail any at all esp heavy weapons wash califonia 60 and 90 mm guy you know who you are welcome home to all

Keywords: i was the canuk had the flag and everything one buddy burned the bunker one nite didnt like the cold??

ADA Units 38 Arty Korea

Comments: I am trying to build a history of the ADA units that served in Korea. I am fighting the VA for benifits but they brush me off because I was ADA. I would like to hear from anyone who served in Korea with a ADA unit so we can try to build a history of who we were and what we did. As it stands now there is no history of the ADA units. Lets build a proud history. Bill Kenney bluejay02130@hotmail.com

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Agent Orange

Comments: This is the 2nd request that I have written. I am doing so because I have read several reports about agent orange used in Ascom Korea and other parts of Korea even before I was stationed there in 1962. I was in the 226th Ord Det. Ascom was an Ordinance Depot and God only knows what was stored there. Yet the V.A. denies claims to those who have diseases caused by agent orange or similar chemicals under other names. The Dr's. keep asking me if I had come in contact with any chemicals (meaning ones that are similar to agent orange, which cause diseases) my response is "I don't know". The Dr's. are not ignornant of the causes of agent orange but cannot say that they know for sure that we have come in contact with it, only the v.a. knows the truth but has constantly denied the use of it. I remember using chemicals to spray weeds around my equipment but do not know what it was. It appears that agent orange was highly used but we cannot prove it unless comeone can come up with some proof of documentation. I have heard about broken barrels of chemicals even agent orange in Ascon and Camp Casey and on the D.M.Z.. So my plea is to those who may have information pretaining to my and othe request of others. Please, please, please e-mail me. You will be helping a veteran in need. Thank You.....Ron Syphard

Keywords: Agent Orange and Ascom Korea 223TH ORD. DET.

Comments: I arrived in Korea during the beginning of the tet offensive on Feb. 12, 1968. I started at McCord AFB in Seattle thence to Hawaii, Midway Island. Guam and Kimpo. My first memory is getting a large dose of gamma-globulin shot in each cheek at Kimpo. I arrived at ASCOM the next day and stayed for 13 months. I was not a certified surgical technician but I started almost immediately on a surgical unit. The first case I scrubbed on was a self-inflicted gun shot wound; a .45 auto round to the chest. I never forgot this one because it took him three days to die. Sinchon or little city was quite a place. I always associated business girl with a fortune 500 company. The business girls in Korea were sitting on their gold mines. There was a critical shortage of equipment and man-power as all of you well know. Some of the helicopters flown in 1968-69 belonged in museums even then. On March 15, 1969 six days after I left the 121st hospital lost its emergency room physician Dr.Ben Park and the chief helicopter pilot Maj Rothwell. I was out processing as CPT. Park was arriving. I remember a number of friendly fire episodes as well as dropped weapons resulting in GSW. I especially remember a personal hero of mine Dr. Duffield a general surgeon and genius.I did not like the Army and got a few article 15's mostly for mouthing off to NCO lifers. Almost forty years later I realize that these were the best men I ever met or ever will know.Considering the hellish conditions in North Korea the war and what we were involved in was necessary. I met the Pueblo crew; several of them I talked to at length. Richard Rogala then of Niles IL and Seaman Law. Stay healthy

Number 1 or number 10 G.I. depending on the source George Strejcek

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Medic at the 121st Evac Hospital

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need info 35th engineers 66-67

Comments: Ineed info about incidents that happened in 1966 1967

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