>>> Now that is something I either never heard of, or forgot about. How
>>> did it work? I remember the deal where you could draw 10%% interest on,
>>> I think on up to about $10K in savings while you were in Vietnam.
>>> That didn't impress me much, I needed cash for R&R, and with the
>>> little bit we made the $10K figure didn't relate to.

>

>>> I drew $5 a month, so I could shine my boots and brush my teeth. I
>>> usually spent it on a big jug of Listerine to control the "jungle rot";
>>> works good if you can stand the pain. I never took R&R, so I came home
>>> with a full wallet. Most guys went home broke. I figured I couldn't get
>>> into too much trouble on $5, and I was right. After 7 months in country
>>> I still had $80 and had only been in one PX during a 3 hour layover in
>>> transit from east of Bien Hoa to north of Tay Ninh. We had trucked the
>>> guns by Caribou and had to wait for enough Chinooks to sling 6 guns,
>>> and
>>> for artillery to prep LZ Jamie. PX wanted to see "Ration Cards" to buy
>>> beer. (huh?) We went across to the px on the Phillipine compound and
>>> had no problem...... Of course we looked kinda rough in beards, ...

> "william boyd" bellsouth.net> wrote in message
> news:4856523b@newsgate.x-privat.org...

>>> Now that is something I either never heard of, or forgot about. How
>>> did it work? I remember the deal where you could draw 10%% interest on,
>>> I think on up to about $10K in savings while you were in Vietnam.
>>> That didn't impress me much, I needed cash for R&R, and with the
>>> little bit we made the $10K figure didn't relate to.
>>>
>>> I drew $5 a month, so I could shine my boots and brush my teeth. I
>>> usually spent it on a big jug of Listerine to control the "jungle rot";
>>> works good if you can stand the pain. I never took R&R, so I came home
>>> with a full wallet. Most guys went home broke. I figured I couldn't get
>>> into too much trouble on $5, and I was right. After 7 months in country
>>> I still had $80 and had only been in one PX during a 3 hour layover in
>>> transit from east of Bien Hoa to north of Tay Ninh. We had trucked the
>>> guns by Caribou and had to wait for enough Chinooks to sling 6 guns, and
>>> for artillery to prep LZ Jamie. PX wanted to see "Ration Cards" to buy
>>> beer. (huh?) We went across to the px on the Phillipine compound and
>>> had no problem...... Of course we looked kinda rough in beards, ...

>>
>>

> You might have missed my point about the ground bumps, meaning ground fire
> coming through and hitting you in the ass.
> How much skid riding did a cook really get over there. :-) must have been
> between meals, wouldn't you say.
> I tool off out of CRB one time hitch hiking some where, in a slick and got
> called in to ammo transport service. Humped ammo boxes in and out of that
> chopper most of the day before finally getting dropped off at Dak To, my
> original destination.
>

> "william boyd" bellsouth.net> wrote in message
> news:4856d011$1@newsgate.x-privat.org...

>>>

>> You might have missed my point about the ground bumps, meaning ground fire
>> coming through and hitting you in the ass.
>> How much skid riding did a cook really get over there. :-) must have been
>> between meals, wouldn't you say.
>> I tool off out of CRB one time hitch hiking some where, in a slick and got
>> called in to ammo transport service. Humped ammo boxes in and out of that
>> chopper most of the day before finally getting dropped off at Dak To, my
>> original destination.
>>

>
>
> Make that "Airmobile Artillery Combat Cook", Hoppy. I moved with the guns
> for 10 months through 6 LZs and a few staging points. (B 2/19th Arty) We
> never had trucks and didn't spend weekends in the club in Japan or Thailand,
> either. Going to work for CG Elvy B Roberts stifled the flying, but I did
> get a day trip to Saigon with the 1st Cav Chief-o-Staff's bird waiting for ...

> On Jun 15, 3:29