written by Jack Woodard As an 18-year-old Marine dog handler in Vietnam, I often found lots of ways to get in trouble, as did my buddy, Bill Jeffcoat. After several infractions, we were given a novel punishment: a few days working in Graves Registration. GR, as it was called, was the process of bringing
written by Todd DePastino On February 17, 1979, China launched over 200,000 soldiers across its southern border in a "punitive war" against Vietnam that would last three weeks and cost tens-of-thousands of lives on both sides. The so-called "Third Indochina War" or "Sino-Vietnam War of 1979" was, for Americans, a perplexing coda to the
written by Todd DePastinoI got to know Bill Bonnamy on our 2018 WWII Battlefield of Europe, where we traveled from Paris and Normandy, through Holland, Luxembourg, and Belgium, ending at the Eagle's Nest above Berchtesgaden in Bavaria--the "Band of Brothers" route. Bill joined us, in part, to trace the footsteps of his father, William
written by John Barber I've heard of elephants used in the Vietnam War, but I've never talked with a veteran who saw one in-country. Nor did I know anything about how or where they were used. Then, I got this story below from Vietnam Marine John Barber, author of Vietnam Requiem: A Memoir. John
written by Pat Jernigan (Colonel, U.S. Army, Retired) I’m a proud Vietnam veteran, and sometimes I’ll wear a hat that identifies me as such. Occasionally, a kind citizen will thank me for my service. “Were you a nurse?” they invariably ask. The question exasperates me a bit, but I understand it. The vast majority
written by Todd DePastino Just after midnight on January 30, 1968, tens of thousands of Viet Cong (VC) and North Vietnamese Army (NVA) regulars attacked US and South Vietnamese forces in II Corps: at Nha Trang, Kon Tum, Hoi An, Tuy Hoa, Da Nang (I Corps), Qui Nhn, Pleiku, and several smaller towns and
