This is what I remember Convoys & OX Carts
This particular convoy we hauled Peniprime for the Engineers Building the Roads.
26, 500 miles in 7 1/2 months All over Vietnam.
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From: "matthew oliver"toliver@kricket.net
To: alpete53@yahoo.com
Subject: 1968 86th Transportation Company
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 17:24:26 -0700
I was in Long Bien in 1968. I have been trying to locate a buddy named
Brooksie Horn.
I heard after I left that the area he was in was overrun
and wanted to know if he made it out okay....thought I'd try your site.
Kenneth W. Oliver, SGT E-5
toliver@kricket.net
If anyone knows what happened, send Kenneth an e-mail and let him know.
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I visited Lye Cay, Vungtou, Phantiet, Tay Ninh, Monkey Mountain, Bin Tui, Bu Dop, and many more places in my last 7 1/2 months in the Army til ETS.
I hauled powder and projos and 500 lb. bombs, all kinds of ordinance.
I helped move out fire bases, when you get there everyone is working, we hand loaded the trucks, didn't pay any attention to all the people leaving on helicopters, til we got done loading the trucks, then we looked around and guess what us drivers are the only ones left, and its getting dark.
Every bridge we stopped at to get the ARVNS to open up took 15-20 minutes, and we have our trucks (I mean Vehilces, A Truck is at the top of the flag pole!) about 25 meters appart, and we're laying on the ground with our M-16's, Tonka toy (Give me an M-14 anyday), Locked and loaded, looking around its about 8:30 P.M. (thats 20:30 for military), talk about big gaps in the line.
Then Finally they open the bride, and we can get back in our truck, til the next bridge.
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I remember that we hardly ever knew where we were going, most of the convoys we just followed the truck in front of us, and made sure we did not loose sight of the truck in front of us.
On one convoy we were passing through Saigon, and at a traffic light there was what we call the white mice, cause they dressed in a white uniform directing traffic, well this particular convoy I did not know where we were going and I was not about to stop and loose sight of the truck in front of me cause I was loaded down with Powder, so he pulled his pistol, looked like a police special with the loop in the handle for the cord that goes around his neck, and started shooting at me, so I went down in my seat and I heard the bullets bouncing off the metal cab on my 5 ton.
Of course the truck behind me stopped so I slowed down so he could keep me in sight and I could still see the truck in front of me until the white mice vietnamese guy let him pass.
Some times we got word on the objective, or place where we were going, of course if you had never been there, just don't loose sight of the truck in front of you.
Like when we hauled stuff for the Australian Army north of Vung Tau, suppose to be an R&R Place, so we pulled in north of Vung Tau to rest and met up with another convoy before continueing to the point where the Australian Army base camp was along the beach with palm trees, reminded me of home, I'm from Miami Florida.
We met up with the other convoy, we were rested, and as soon as they got there we all pulled out, so they did not get any rest. A mission First kinda thing. Anyway we finally got to the Austrialian Base camp, and we were in the process of getting unloaded when a sniper started shooting at us.
I got my head down like my reaction from my first tour of duty, and I look around and all the American Army guys got their heads down, and I noticed all the Australians are standing up and pointing where the sniper was for someone to go and get him, like they were bullet proof.
I thought these guys got allot of guts or their all crazy. Well anyway a coulple of the Austrialians went down there about 600 yards and shot the sniper out of a palm tree.
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Fire Base Wade, was on the top of a mountain don't know the name, if anyone knows send me an e-mail, and a vietnamese good size village at the base of the mountain.
We use to wait in the village and they would send a twin 40mm duster down to the village to escort us up to the top of the mountain.Now as long as that duster was with the convoy, charlie, VC, would not dare to shoot a you. However, the road going up the mountain was the roughest road for a 5 ton bob tail, not pulling a trailer just the tractor, on the last part of the convoy as convoy support, incase on of the other tractors broke down.
Now while trying to drive your aiming your foot at the accelerator, and bouncing out of your seat with your head hitting the canvas top of the cab, and your butt sitting all over the front from the drivers seat to the passenger seat, hanging on to the steering wheel and trying to keep going, but your foot comes off the accelerator, so your speeding up and slowing down and bouncing all around bob tail. Top Speed is 10 miles per hour, down to 3 miles per hour, and back up to 10 miles per hour all the way up the mountain.
Of course when your driving in the rear of the convoy, your the last one there, and by the time you get there, everyone else is unloaded, and rested, and ready to go back down the mountain, you might get 5 to 10 minutes break if your lucky, but your not so lucky, looks like their ready to go. So, you wait til the last truck pulling a unloaded trailer passes, then you pull in behind, and 5-10 miles per hour all the way back down the mountain bouncing all over the cab of the truck.
FINALLY, your back down to the village, you think your going to get some rest, but since you're not waiting on a duster, everyone pulls out and the long drive back to Long Bien begins.
That's why in the picture I'm resting and drinking a knice cold beer. When we worked we worked hard and fought hard, and when we had a chance to kick back and rest we did that too.
New people in country use to look at us and think how come those guys are loafing and goofing off, if they had only known !
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