“While we were swatting crocodile sized jungle bugs he was bitching about doing push ups in a cold hangar. Then faking mental illness. “
Yeah, in my branch of the service I sure never saw anyone from his ethnic group in SE Asia that I was aware of. Same with stateside duty either mid-late 60s. It was a standing joke at the time, their invisibility.
20. If you are referring to David being Jewish, you missed the following guys I met in Nam or who I knew served thereafter there.
Matt - MP, along with AMA volunteer doctor (6 months), in Bac Lieu.
Steve Klein USA, An Loi, Mekong Delta riverine ops support base
David Granick - ROK advisor, Black Horse Div, II Corps
Roger Snyder - KIA - didn’t know him but he lived next door to my cousin in Baltimore
Jules Cherry - USA, combat soldier
Glen Siegal USA, CAPS lt.
Alan Labowitz - B52 combat pilot
Lt. Col. - USA, POL commander, II Corps up to Pleiku region
CMDR. Paul Frommer - Tet in Saigon
CMDR. Norman - Light Cruiser commander, Gulf of Tonkin/NVN ops, WW2 vet
And others in one of my books from WW 1 thru my son as one of the first U.S. soldiers into Iraq during OIF, 299th Army Engineers, MRB, and sharpshooter with kills.
Myself - MAcv-accredited journalist, SVN and on own in Cambodia
We were there, you just had took!