Vintage Vietnam Era Zippo Lighters

IMGUR ^ | February 25, 2016 | (Expurgated)

[Little Bill]

I remember standing at the gate of the 89th Evac in 1966 and watched Westmoreland dive through the MP post out side the gate.

He had rather Garish shirt on and saluted like a girl.

[beaversmom]

lol...I wanna see a video. Hope you had your smartphone with you. ;)

[Liberty Valance]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3720TpWpW8
Journey from the Fall

[beaversmom]

Nice...thank you!

[Jet Jaguar]

Vet ping.

[beaversmom]

When I was looking up the correct spelling for fat in Vietnamese, I came across this and it mentions the primary diet of fish and rice:

Why Vietnamese Women Don’t Get Fat
http://thehappypassport.com/vietnamese-women-dont-get-fat/

[ErnBatavia]

OMG you mean our troops were allowed to SMOKE?

In USMC Boot Camp (1966) the Drill Instructors would line us up in formation on the Platoon Street (the path between our Quonset Huts where we bunked) and announce "Smoking Formation! Non-smokers get your toothbrushes, run to the head and brush your fangs!"

They'd hold one non-puffer back and designate him as "Ashtray"....meaning he'd hold the lid of a metal trashcan and run up and down the line of us smokers, so that we could politely tip our ashes....

(I'm guessing that around 3/4 of us were smokers)

[ErnBatavia]

I lost it only a few months later

Everything from my active duty, other than one Pisscutter, my Corporal Chevrons and dogtags was lost forever after I got out, found an apartment and promptly had the open-garage storage bay burglarized -- the lot of which included a footlocker with all that stuff.

I don't know what the hell I'd have done if they'd activated us inactive reservists.

[sergeantdave]

Journey from the Fall. On You Tube, with sub-titles, here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3720TpWpW8

[mad_as_he$$]

that’s cheating! The only map they gave me had hill and hamlet numbered in a grid pattern.

[easternsky]

I was very Blessed, had been married for 4 years when went over, she kept everything. Still has all the letters I wrote her, grandkids love to rummage through all the stuff. Lots of questions when they do, so Grandma tells them not today, its not a good day for that.

[beaversmom]

Thank you Sgt. Dave for link. :)

[onedoug]

I got a bunch of those maps from the gummint before I went back there with my daughter in 2000. They came in mighty handy for locating a bunch of old haunts.

(Though wish I still had that Zippo.)

[GOPJ]

"We the unwillilng led by the unqualified to kill the unfortunate die for the ungrateful"

[Nailbiter]

ping

[JDoutrider]

Phu Bai is ALLLLLLLL RIIIIIGHT!!!

At least that's what the sign sign said when you entered the camp back then!

We based at Phu Bai when they let us animals come in for a shower from the field... Which wasn't that often!

Phu Bai was a short hop by Huey to Hue to the North, and the Ashua Valley to the West South West. Fun times were had by All!!!

See my "about" page...

[JDoutrider]

BTW, one of my Zippo's was engraved with this diddy:

If I ever look like I give a F@$K

Call a Medic!!!

[R. Scott]

It had to be around 1967.

[larryjohnson]

Mine just has LNJ
years ago I sent it away to zippo to be refurbed.
Stored back in Maine chest. Don’t need it in FLORIDA.

[oh8eleven]

I don't know what the hell I'd have done if they'd activated us inactive reservists.
Since the IRR was part of the 6 year obligation, I assume you'd have to make a trip to cash sales and pay for whatever you needed.
I was active duty '66-'69, then joined my local reserve unit in 1982 where I received a complete new issue as if I had never been in.
Kept both sets for 35-40 years.