Memory Post number one.

[gadget9901]

I am going to start doing posts of random memories fro my time in service. Just for the heck of it. They may or may not be in chronological order, since my memory comes off and on.

This is the first.

Late spring early summer 1984.

Arriving at my first unit. 1/506th 101st at Fort Campbell.

We were met at Battalion HQ by a Staff Sargent. He stopped us and pointed to a plaque above the entrance.

He said.

Just so you know where you are. The Battalion Commander killed 3 NVa in Vietnam with that entrenching tool after he ran out of ammo.

We had to take our entrenching tools to the Bayonet range a few times while I was there.

[JohnyMac]

 

Thx for sharing. 

[gadget9901]

Number two.

Story two in the random story saga.

I was walking across the quad towards the Battalion HQ at my first unit. 1st 506th Inf. 101st Ft Campbell.

In front of me was a Staff Sargent and the Battalion Commander was approaching. The Commander executed a parade ground salute before the SSG did.

So the story is that that Staff Sargent was a medal of Honor awardee from Vietnam. He had and was a troublemaker and kept getting reduced in rank. However he kept soldiering on.

What times to live.