5th Comm Bn

Important Announcement

The MSN Groups service will close in February 2009. You can move your group to Multiply, MSN’s partner for online groups. Learn More

I guess that I am the newest fng in the group. A little background, I was a retread when I was assigned to 5th Comm in March '66. Wound up at the air strip living in the swamp. I am scanning some old slides and will send them along shortly.

Was assigned to Comm Support and only spent a couple of months at the beach. Left 5th Comm in December '67 and went to Iwakuni. Returned to Nam in February '69 with MWSG-17.

I was just a communicator. Nothing exciting.

You probably figured out that your were a stones throw away from Dogpatch because they were throwing stones at you, right?

When anyone asks me what 5th Comm did in Vietnam, I tell them we were tasked with providing comm and/or comm maintenance for anyone and everyone in I Corps. I don't know if you had seen this tale as you were going through the postings on the site, but I encountered MOH winner Col. Wesley Fox at a gun show in Virginia last year. I was wearing my 5th Comm cover and he confessed that he had never heard of us. I asked him if he had ever been in deep s*** and was screaming on the radio for air support, artillery, reinforcements - whatever could get him and his Marines out of that mess - and his radio didn't work. He said, "Oh, yeah!" and I replied, "That was us!"

He laughed his ass off.

Mikey, Thane of Duninsane

Before I put a pin on the Google Earth map I better get some more eye balls on the old cable map...from any here that have a copy. I did find MWSG-17/Flight Line on the legend as cable number M-17, a 25 pair cable. But for the life of me, I can't find it's location on the cable map, the M-17 label. There's an empty square shaped space with the Dog Patch junction box # M-94G in the lower left, or south west corner and M-11, -14a cables marked Transietn Facility and Air freight in the upper right or north east corner of the area. I'm thinking MWSG-17 was in that sqaure space somewhere closer to Dog Patch J. box.

Do you have the Google Earth program so I could send you what locations I've got from this cable map? If not, I could crop a jpg image of it and pass it to you by email attachment and you could take a guess where it was...and even 1st MP's and Maintenance FLSG. The google earth images are a year or two old so it sure don't look like the old days. The old main road routes are still visible if that would help.

I think Jim Boettecher met R. Lee some time back at a Scouting ceremony and gabbed a bit of the old days. Love his Mail Call show.

I met R. Lee while working a Modern Marine Expo at Quantico w/the MCL a few years ago and had our picture taken, then waited in line almost 4 hours at a Baltimore car show so he could sign it for me the next year. It's somewhere around hodge-podge lodge here, probably next to the one with Henry Fonda using my back for a desk to sign an autograph for Mike Christiano when Fonda visited 5th Comm.

The funny thing about R. Lee is that when you talk with him one-on-one, he's very soft spoken and almost courtly, a complete 180 from his DI persona. I'd like to get him to do some visits with the wounded guys at Bethesda because they'd get a big kick out of that.

Until I can, they'll just have to settle for Mikey - and I need to get going to get down there on time today.

Mikey, Thane of Duninsane

I had to update Google Earth on my PC. The version that I had was old and no longer accessable. I checked out the area and you can still see the road that ran from the air strip through Dog Patch. Maintenance Bn was the frist unit inside the wire and we were right behind them. If you turned right on the road that ran paralled to the air strip 1st MPs was a short way down on the right. I hope that this helps.

Do you know where the old III MAF compound was by the air strip? It was next to a swampy area.

I looked at the area on Google Earth again and I think that about half way between where the road goes into Dog Patch and the air stril there was a road that went off to the left. That went into MWSG-17. It is hard to remember after all this time even with a little bourbon to revive the memory cells.

If you want to contact me directly the email address is [email protected].

<STYLE type=text/css> #yiv413098532 #yiv413098532 ThmFgColumnHeader, #yiv413098532 A.FrameLink, #yiv413098532 A.HeaderLink, #yiv413098532 A.FooterLink, #yiv413098532 A.LgtCmd, #yiv413098532 A.MSNLink {color:#FFFFFF;} #yiv413098532 ThmFgTitleLightBk {color:#FF6600;} #yiv413098532 ThmFgSmallLight {color:#ff0000;} #yiv413098532 ThmFgNavLink, #yiv413098532 A.NavLink, #yiv413098532 A.ChildLink:hover {color:#666699;} #yiv413098532 ThmFgInactiveText, #yiv413098532 A.SystemLink {color:#666666;} #yiv413098532 ThmFgFrameTitle {color:#FFFFCC;} #yiv413098532 ThmFgTitleDarkBk, #yiv413098532 A.NavLink:hover, #yiv413098532 A.TitleLink {color:#CC6600;} #yiv413098532 ThmFgMiscText, #yiv413098532 A.Cat, #yiv413098532 A.SubCat {color:#336699;} #yiv413098532 ThmFgCommand, #yiv413098532 A.Command, #yiv413098532 A.LargeCommand, #yiv413098532 A.MsgLink {color:#003366;} #yiv413098532 ThmFgHeader {color:#333333;} #yiv413098532 ThmFgStandard, #yiv413098532 A.SystemLink:hover, #yiv413098532 A.SubLink, #yiv413098532 A.ChildLink, #yiv413098532 A.StdLink, #yiv413098532 SELECT.Standard {color:#000000;} #yiv413098532 ThmFgDivider {color:#CCCCCC;}#yiv413098532 #yiv413098532 #yiv413098532 ThmBgStandard {background-color:#FFFFFF;} #yiv413098532 ThmBgUnknown1 {background-color:#FF6600;} #yiv413098532 ThmBgFraming {background-color:#666699;} #yiv413098532 ThmBgUnknown2 {background-color:#666666;} #yiv413098532 ThmBgHighlightDark {background-color:#FFFFCC;} #yiv413098532 ThmBgHighlightLight, #yiv413098532 #idToolbar, #yiv413098532 #tbContents {background-color:#FFFFE8;} #yiv413098532 ThmBgTitleDarkBk {background-color:#F1F1F1;} #yiv413098532 ThmBgAlternate {background-color:#ECF1F6;} #yiv413098532 ThmBgUnknown3 {background-color:#CCCCFF;} #yiv413098532 ThmBgDivider {background-color:#CCCCCC;} #yiv413098532 ThmBgHeader {background-color:#9999CC;} #yiv413098532 ThmBgLinks {background-color:#8696C9;} #yiv413098532 ThmBgSharkBar {background-color:#8696C9;} #yiv413098532 ThmBgGlobalNick {background-color:#9394A9;} #yiv413098532 #yiv413098532 calfgndcolor {color:#E00505;} #yiv413098532 calbgndcolor {color:#E00505;} </STYLE>

	New Message on 5th Comm Bn

newest fng

Reply

Reply to Sender Recommend Message 47 in Discussion

From: Ga1222

Dick,

I looked at the area on Google Earth again and I think that about half way between where the road goes into Dog Patch and the air stril there was a road that went off to the left. That went into MWSG-17. It is hard to remember after all this time even with a little bourbon to revive the memory cells.

If you want to contact me directly the email address is [email protected].

Ben

View other groups in this category.

To stop getting this e-mail, or change how often it arrives, go to your E-mail Settings.

Need help? If you've forgotten your password, please go to Passport Member Services.
For other questions or feedback, go to our Contact Us page.

If you do not want to receive future e-mail from this MSN group, or if you received this message by mistake, please click the "Remove" link below. On the pre-addressed e-mail message that opens, simply click "Send". Your e-mail address will be deleted from this group's mailing list.
Remove my e-mail address from 5th Comm Bn.

Ben's addy describes what's happening to him by joining this site, we're all a "A little Bit Bent", like that song by the tractors.

After I get this PC bug figured out, I'll send you the Googel Earth map in the kmz format and I think it'll have most areas some 5th Commers have been. Every time I try to use my scanner, it goes to restart mode after pop up's during other use, so the next step is uninstall that stuff and heave that scanner in the lake.

Not being very creative, my wife and I just used our first names for our e-mail address. Therefore it is [email protected].

When we went to Leonard Woods we could not find a room any closer than Rolla because of all of the graduations. We spent a few days there and saw some pretty country. To make it even better there are some pretty good wineries in the area.

That is a lie, I've never done anything Pathological in my life. Or is that Logical? I forget

You forgot? No, no, no! Marines never forget anything.

Maybe you just disremembered it.

Mikey, Thane of Duninsane

It took almost a week for that to post I wonder if this is faster LOL

I'm not into the new terms of Dis-remembering, Un-truthing, and all that Um-Bull--Dung, stuff.......!

Or is that suppose to be Waterbuffalo-Poop?? These new terms just baffle me...

What's wrong with STRAIGHT TALK??

"Disremembers" ain't at all new. The first time I heard it was in 1969 when another officer and I chased down and arrested a punk for a street robbery and were interrogating him:

"Tyrone, who else was with you when you guys knocked that lady down and took her purse?"

"Uh, Ah disremembers."

There are times when I actually miss being on the job.

Mikey, Thane of Duninsane

<STYLE type=text/css> #yiv526126288 #yiv526126288 ThmFgColumnHeader, #yiv526126288 A.FrameLink, #yiv526126288 A.HeaderLink, #yiv526126288 A.FooterLink, #yiv526126288 A.LgtCmd, #yiv526126288 A.MSNLink {color:#FFFFFF;} #yiv526126288 ThmFgTitleLightBk {color:#FF6600;} #yiv526126288 ThmFgSmallLight {color:#ff0000;} #yiv526126288 ThmFgNavLink, #yiv526126288 A.NavLink, #yiv526126288 A.ChildLink:hover {color:#666699;} #yiv526126288 ThmFgInactiveText, #yiv526126288 A.SystemLink {color:#666666;} #yiv526126288 ThmFgFrameTitle {color:#FFFFCC;} #yiv526126288 ThmFgTitleDarkBk, #yiv526126288 A.NavLink:hover, #yiv526126288 A.TitleLink {color:#CC6600;} #yiv526126288 ThmFgMiscText, #yiv526126288 A.Cat, #yiv526126288 A.SubCat {color:#336699;} #yiv526126288 ThmFgCommand, #yiv526126288 A.Command, #yiv526126288 A.LargeCommand, #yiv526126288 A.MsgLink {color:#003366;} #yiv526126288 ThmFgHeader {color:#333333;} #yiv526126288 ThmFgStandard, #yiv526126288 A.SystemLink:hover, #yiv526126288 A.SubLink, #yiv526126288 A.ChildLink, #yiv526126288 A.StdLink, #yiv526126288 SELECT.Standard {color:#000000;} #yiv526126288 ThmFgDivider {color:#CCCCCC;}#yiv526126288 #yiv526126288 #yiv526126288 ThmBgStandard {background-color:#FFFFFF;} #yiv526126288 ThmBgUnknown1 {background-color:#FF6600;} #yiv526126288 ThmBgFraming {background-color:#666699;} #yiv526126288 ThmBgUnknown2 {background-color:#666666;} #yiv526126288 ThmBgHighlightDark {background-color:#FFFFCC;} #yiv526126288 ThmBgHighlightLight, #yiv526126288 #idToolbar, #yiv526126288 #tbContents {background-color:#FFFFE8;} #yiv526126288 ThmBgTitleDarkBk {background-color:#F1F1F1;} #yiv526126288 ThmBgAlternate {background-color:#ECF1F6;} #yiv526126288 ThmBgUnknown3 {background-color:#CCCCFF;} #yiv526126288 ThmBgDivider {background-color:#CCCCCC;} #yiv526126288 ThmBgHeader {background-color:#9999CC;} #yiv526126288 ThmBgLinks {background-color:#8696C9;} #yiv526126288 ThmBgSharkBar {background-color:#8696C9;} #yiv526126288 ThmBgGlobalNick {background-color:#9394A9;} #yiv526126288 #yiv526126288 calfgndcolor {color:#E00505;} #yiv526126288 calbgndcolor {color:#E00505;} </STYLE>

	New Message on 5th Comm Bn

newest fng

Reply

Reply to Sender Recommend Message 52 in Discussion

From: DuninsaneDude

Ice,

You forgot? No, no, no! Marines never forget anything.

Maybe you just disremembered it.

Mikey, Thane of Duninsane

View other groups in this category.

To stop getting this e-mail, or change how often it arrives, go to your E-mail Settings.

Need help? If you've forgotten your password, please go to Passport Member Services.
For other questions or feedback, go to our Contact Us page.

If you do not want to receive future e-mail from this MSN group, or if you received this message by mistake, please click the "Remove" link below. On the pre-addressed e-mail message that opens, simply click "Send". Your e-mail address will be deleted from this group's mailing list.
Remove my e-mail address from 5th Comm Bn.

I picked up "disremember" from doing interrogations in the ghetto as a street cop:

"Tyrone, did you knock that old lady down and take her purse?"

"Uh, Ah disremembers."

"Yassuh, Ah done it!"

Oh, for the good ole' days!

Mikey, Thane of Duninsane

Important Announcement The MSN Groups service will close in February 2009. You can move your group to Multiply, MSN’s partner for online groups. Learn More
5th Comm Bn	[email protected]