I take back the shit eating grin. Seeing your photo from the Milsurp site email I'd say you just need one of those Trump thumbs up poses to go with it.

4th of July 2020. We got coronavirus killing off senior citizens in every state....and we are senior citizens now ourselves. We got race demonstrations and a campaign for black awareness that includes removing names from anything that has the remote potential for ethnic disrespect because a few assh...

No problem... I bet I can picture it in my mind. Let me guess.... Red? Big letters? Shit eating grin?

Kendall Wittenburg of HHC had earned two purple hearts and a bronze star. Unknown history... possibly medic? He died in Cedar Falls Iowa.

David Mowatt , death November 14, 1997 was in Waterloo Iowa.

For online news I watch the Associated Press site. It's the same stuff you see in all the newspapers as straight news filler between the advertisements. It seems like it tries to keep as middle a coarse as it can and keeps up with the breaking news. https://apnews.com/

I agree that Pence looks like Trump's ventriloquist dummy. Let's see who Biden comes up with.

A lot of our old geezer, like us, former soldier compatriots, are still in the Trump camp and would vote for him no matter what he said or did. Check out the home page of any of your facebook friends older than 65 and see. However, although Trump tried to start a war with Iran by killing off one its...

Biden is showing his tough on Russia side because the New York times says "top intelligence officials", unnamed, say that Russia was paying bounties to kill Americans in Afghanistan. It didn't say how much was paid or if there actually were any payments. There were a total of 22 deaths in ...

John was one of the original Ft. Lewis trainees. He was apparently trained 11b but in April of 1968, three weeks after the 6/31st landed in Vietnam his orders show he was converted into a 36K40 wireman. He was attached to HHC and was with HQ Company for a number of months before being transferred to...

An update. Originally we had some old information from 2006 that suggested John Tucker had been in Charlie Company. Now we have information that all of his promotions came through Headquarters Company. He was also a Ft. Lewis original and had an MOS of 36K40 making him a wireman. Not infantry but in...

He is now deceased. His wife is looking for contacts who knew him. John is pictured in a Charlie Company album here: http://6thofthe31st.com/gallery/index.php/Headquartescompany/John-Tucker The last from his wife Judy: Thank you so much Robert I will send you a few pictures I have on my phone and tr...

Apparently the 6th of the 31st reunion has been pushed over to September. I suspect there will be some notice if it actually is going to happen. The Regiment reunion is still a live proposition....until it isn't... with the decision made in another month and a half or so to go on with it or not.

It's that time of year again. Beaches are crowded down at Gulf Shores Alabama, pandemic or no pandemic. Being six feet apart is probably difficult even on those wide beaches.....if anybody down there actually cares. Two or three people have already drowned....just having a good time I guess. Meanwhi...

I'm offering remainder pins on ebay. It will be curious to me to see if the military beercan pin collector has any interest or not. I know it looks like I'm nuts to think anyone, even those who actually went to the reunion, would fork over $25 for a pin that actually cost something like $5 each when...

Regiment Association reports death of SGT. Joseph Palermo. B Company. Boardman, OH. Died January 3, 2020. Was listed as with Bravo 68/69.

Now that the subject of things that came through the air has been brought up, I remember something Jerry Holderness said at the one and only reunion at Branson. He was the Alpha FO at the time of the Cambodian incursion while I was his assistant and RTO. Two weeks after coming back to Ben Luc he was...

Here's an image I took of one of the bomb runs.

http://www.6thofthe31st.com/gallery/ind ... art/cambo4

When we first got into Chantrea the arty wasn't set up yet. It was where a border village once stood called Ba Thu. Then when the half battery was set up it was still 10 kilometers from the West side of Chantrea. I'll post an image in the photo section and link it. The arty was set up at 27530283. Y...

Here we are a year later. A couple of things to note. First, is that the review I gave his book at Barnes and Noble has been erased. https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/my-life-outside-the-fish-bowl-urban-miyares/1131082363;jsessionid=89EAC200DE156C780C2F99EAB115DCDB.prodny_store01-atgap06?ean=29401560...

Two of the oldest Presidential candidates ever are going against each other in the 2020 election. It seems really sad that we have the two choices we have. Biden is the poster boy for the swamp. He was a big fan of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was in favor of any trade deal that special inter...

Just to confuse things.... on my map... the one that Mike Kirby gave me that I still have... back in the day I had Gettysburg at 395 910. My map has "Kinh Bo Bo" clearly running on the North side of the grease pencil mark for Gettysburg. So... my money is on the spot I marked on my map 50 ...

Pointman's image. Google Earth.
http://www.6thofthe31st.com/gallery/ind ... lipboard01

I remember at Jackson there was a guy on a bulldozer pushing everything still standing down. Vietnamese people were flocking to the place to scavenge material. Some of them were getting in his way and he started firing shots close to them to try and get them to back up. I noticed and was thinking if...

Another shot at it. Noticed another list online. It gives the grid coordinates of 418-125. On my map that puts Jarrett WSW of Jackson. The comment in both Where We Were and what I found online says connection to 6th of the 31st and closed in May of 1970. Jackson was closed and torn down some months ...

Went looking in Were We Were. I don't remember the name but it looks for sure you aren't the only one that remembers that name. The book entry says: Jarrett FSB Along Song Vam Co Dong apx. 9km ENE Duc Hue. AF and 24 KM WSW of Chu Chi. Temporary base of 6th of the 31st, 9th Division May 70. Hau Nghia...