Writing quickly, lest connection ends. The only remnants of our stay are some slight indication of road and some rusty old C ration cans - looks like pork slices in juice and cheese spread. Looking down on one scene is where my tent used to be right next to our 81 mm mortar pit. Flat area is where a barracks used to be. Slope used to have a mess hall. See bunker on perimeter shrouded in mist still in monsoon season. It is spooky enough by day, but at night, let me tell you, ultra spooky. Bye for now. Karlie.
Hey Karl,
ReplyDeleteI am a vet who spent a little time atop vung chua mountain vietnam working TDY with a Military Police Company who was assigned security. I was origonally with the Signal Battalion there in Quy Nhon who had me stationed with a Signal Company in Phu Tai Valley. The TDY was for Gaurd Duty and Patrols. At that time it was reported that the Mountain had changed hands a couple times, between the NVA/Vietcong and the Americans who maintained a radio station on the Mountain. The bunker you took a picture of looks like the one I fell though a trap door in - splitting open my jaw and knocking me out cold in the process. The picture does not show a hill behind it, if it did then I would say it is definetly the one. On the hill behind was the Mil. Pol. hootch, where I bunked, for the month or so I was on duty up there.
I spent a lot of time in that bunker and there was no trap door. It was built on top of a rockl.
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ReplyDeleteMy tour of duty in Vietnam was 1967-68. I was stationed at Dong Ba Thin. I was transferred, along with another soldier by the name of J. Sliwa, to Vung Chua Mountain. We were asked to be transferred there by a former staff sergeant that we had been with. His name was Daniel Ortega. In 1967, Vung Chua Mountain still had a tremendous amount of work to be done in order to secure the perimeters. J. Sliwa and I built this bunker that you are talking about. I have many pictures of this bunker. I've wondered all these years if anybody ever looked at this bunker and imagined who built it. I've wondered what their thoughts about it would be. We also built the mortar sites with the bunker for the ammunition.
HI My name is Ronald Hill I was in Quin Nhon and pulled guard duty at the radio station at the base of vugchua mountian was with the 1st log command was there from Nov 68 / may 69 ANYONE THAT WAS THERE OR IF YOU KNOW ANYONE THAT WAS PLEASE CONTACT ME RMHCowboy@aol.com
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