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  • What Soldiers Wore in Vietnam

    In some of my recent blogs I have talked about what soldiers ate, the kind of equipment they used, what they drank, and several other soldier related issues. One of my cadets asked me one time what did you wear in Vietnam. Especially since it was so hot over there. When I arrived in Vietnam… →

  • Merry Christmas – Christmas in Vietnam

    I spent three Christmases in Vietnam. Each one of them was different but then again each of them was the same. Christmas 1969 I had arrived in Vietnam early in the fall of 1969 and had been assigned to my first team. I was at Ap Bac on our three-man team there. I was a… →

  • Enduring The ‘Gun’ and other medical issues in Vietnam

    Most of us who were in the army in the 1960s can tell some interesting stories about medicine. I think one of the most ‘endearing’ stories deals with the infamous vaccination gun. I can remember as a buck private standing in a long line of other soldiers and as you looked up the line you… →

  • Love and War

    It was a sad moving day for Colonel Paul Tyler, US Army retired. After the loss of his beloved wife, Katherine, to breast cancer, he had decided to sell their large five-bedroom house in Tilden, Indiana and move to a two-bedroom condo in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. As they were clearing out the house… →