This from Craig Wood, EO2
Dave, just a few notes for starters in case no one has pointed them out.
Page v bottom of page Cupo was an EO2 not BU2.
Page 83 we used diesel fuel not gasoline on the waste drums. Gasoline probably would have sent a few home with burns.
Page 88 & 215 according to his daughter Brown passed away in 1974.
Page 88, I started the softball team - so if Conroy was the coach I let him be. I was playing hi caliber fast pitch at Whiting Field, FL before I left for heavy equipment operator school in 1966. I was always giving it to Conroy because he was so green.
Page 90 Tom Wyckoff and I were good friends, so we played a lot of basketball together. I don't remember the game, but Tom was probably sweating so much he couldn't hang on to the ball to score.
Page 220 Bill Sipple - fifth line from the bottom- word should be when instead of went he got back.
Good book for a dyslexic person - not easy to overcome.
We lived in the cottages mentioned on page 63 also. I was an EO3 at the start of 1967 and was an EO2 in November. I was on the rock crushing crew for most of the tour. I had never done anything like that before, but I was put in charge of the day crushing crew sooner than I wanted. In 1968, I was sent to Phu Loc to run the night rock crushing crew. 500 watt lights lit the place up, so that people in Phu Bai saw the lights. Amazingly we only got hit once between May and December. About 7 of us managed to get nailed by the first mortar round that landed. Lots of stories about that deployment could be told. I was a total misfit for the Seabees - don't smoke, drink coffee or alcohol.
When I got home in December of 68, I got out 10 months early due to the fact that I served 2 full tours and they couldn't send me back. I was an air traffic controller at Chicago Center after that for 9 years. 3 years later when I was working at O'Hare we went on strike. Best job I ever had, but the government wouldn't stop playing stupid games. I was a nuclear power operator for 15 years when I retired from that. I went back to work for the government as a hydro power plant operator out west and ended up with over 29 years working for them total at different dams. I retired last June maybe for the last time, cause no one will hire a 73 year old.
Enjoyed the book more than the tours. Our oldest daughter was born during our first tour, so 53 years later we are still married.
Excellent book to read: www.alfredthebook.com