This is very bad news for those planning to attend the reunion and for Charlie Tapp, the reunion coordinator, who I am sure has put a great deal of work into this reunion. The 31st Regiment Association "finally" chose a very nice vacation/resort location for a reunion, and now Mother Natur...

I'll never forget the surprise when men asked if they could at least contribute to the beer/soda/snacks cost and we told them "thank you very much, but we have it all covered". Truly a remarkable event that will never be beaten or even matched. I know that it was quite a task that nearly k...

Excellent summary of your VA experience Randy!

Jerry

* The days of the large WWII naval battles have long passed us by; therefore, battleships, cruisers, etc. have not been listed. This information below is about a year old. Military budgets: USA $600B (now over $700B)..$600B was more than than the next 8 countries combined. China: $215B Russia: $66B ...

Great memories...not sure what happened to mine.

Sadly I report the passing of another Brother. "Doc" Sheridan has informed me of the passing of David Morris, March 29, 2017. David carried the M-60 machine-gun in 3rd platoon, Delta Company, 6/31st, 9th Infantry Division, Vietnam 1968-69. I was his Platoon Sergeant in 1969. No one was bet...

Sadly I report the passing of another Brother. "Doc" Sheridan has informed me of the passing of David Morris, March 29, 2017. David carried the M-60 machine-gun in 3rd platoon, Delta Company, 6/31st, 9th Infantry Division, Vietnam 1968-69. I was his Platoon Sergeant in 1969. No one was bet...

Randy.......as you probably already know...Lt Richard Dorn (2nd platoon/1969) visited us for a week in March. He stayed in a nice hotel in My Tho (($50 a night) and my sons and I picked him up each morning on my son's motorcycles to take him around the old AO. You would always be welcome.

Randy after all these years, after constant prodding by a friend, I finally met with a Vietnam Veteran advocate and he filed a claims form for me. While I was in Vietnam visiting my wife's family my neighbor who was screening my mail for me sent me a scanned copy of several appointments that had bee...

I agree with you Niner......sadly 59,000 died for nothing. When you read the Pentagon Papers you see that Johnson and McNamara knew as early as 1965 that we could not win the war, but they were looking for an "honorable peace". By 1965 we had lost ~2,300 men....therefore we lost another ~5...

He weighed right at 200 lbs...I had estimated that he would have weighed much more (at least 250)...these Texas Hill Country hogs are long and lean. The tales of all those 300 lbs hogs are mostly just that...."tales". Most were estimates and were never weighed. Yes...there are a few 300 lb...

As we know, the War experiences of a Combat Soldier and a REMP (or REMF as they were known to those in combat :D ) were two worlds apart; however, I never expected the very large difference, as it relates to the War, that I have discovered over the last ~50 years, between the Vietnamese people who l...

I actually met such a "turn-coat" Tiger Scout at this last reunion. My Wife told me that after we had left Vinh Kim, using his position of having been a Tiger Scout, he gained access to one of the small ARVN outposts near Vinh Kim. Later that night he opened the gate to the VC and they kil...

I would assume that about the only former Tiger Scouts who survived the "post-war" were those lucky enough to have escaped the country or those who were actually still Viet Cong who had served "under-cover" for the Viet Cong.

As many of us thought during the War.....the Vietnamese people in the countryside didn't care who won the War...they just wanted it to be over so that they could go on with their lives and so that their family members would stop dying. They knew that the South Vietnamese government had never done an...

Actually my children and my wife's younger sister were concerned that I would even attend the reunion....actually a celebration of the April 30, 1975 end-of-the war "victory". My wife and I were not concerned, as we had already attended one a few years ago. Needless to say the speaker reco...

Today we went to a a reunion with my wife's former Viet Cong friends. I was, of course, the only former American soldier in attendance. LOL As usual, I was warmly welcomed...everyone wanted to have a drink with me. They pour their rice vodka (ba si day) into a shot glass and bend their finger in 1/2...

I will be leaving for the Saigon airport in a few minutes to pick up (Lt) Richard Dorn who will be visiting our old AO around Dong Tam/Vinh Kim for a few days. My wife's (Barbara) sons will be taking Richard and me around via their motorbikes. After our AO tour has been completed, before returning h...

I will be leaving for the Saigon airport in a few minutes to pick up (Lt) Richard Dorn who will be visiting our old AO around Dong Tam/Vinh Kim for a few days. My wife's (Barbara) sons will be taking Richard and me around via their motorbikes. After our AO tour has been completed, before returning h...

Hello My Delta Brothers Chuck served with 3rd platoon in 68/69. Chuck and his wife Carolyn attended the 2015 6/31st reunion in Branson, MO as well as many of the 31st Regiment Association reunions. The 2005 Ft Benning, GA was the first large gathering of 6/31st men, and Chuck and Carolyn were there ...

The 31st Regiment Association website should be considered a total embarrassment to the organization. It is without a doubt the worse military organization website on the internet. They should consider removing it completely until it is at least functional.

My neighbor who is picking up my mail says that I just received a packet from Chuck...I assume the newsletter....strange since I too resigned from the Association some time ago. It does appear that they are actually doing some "recruiting", at least via the newsletter, in an attempt to get...

Fiction for sure!

Hello All.....my wife and I arrived in Vietnam last week for our yearly visit with her family in Vinh Kim. The weather is great! The last couple of months in Texas have been too darn cold for this old man. We will be here for 4 months....thankfully it will be warm when we return.

Take Care All
Jerry

Hello All......I just received this input from one of our Delta Brothers...Dean Langstaff Good day to you Jerry. I wanted to pass along information that concerns knee replacements and if one has a disability rating involving knees wounds. Some background info about my wound. I received a shrapnel wo...