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A Troop 4th Squadron, 12th US Cavalry Reunion 2023

2023 A Troop 4th Squadron, 12th US Cavalry Reunion Another reunion has come and gone. The bathtubs full of beer have been reduced to decaffeinated coffee and soda. Age is catching up with us. However, we had 25 happy campers, and along with friends and family, we had about 65 for dinner. Those who thought Detroit was too far to drive might take a lesson from Roger and Shirely Curry who drove to Detroit from Alaska. Everyone attended the River cruise on Friday night, and many attendees enjoyed the Ford Factory Tour, Ford Museum, and Eastern Market. The main attraction…

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2020/2021 Reunion Update – 12th CAV Trooper Newsletter

The 12th CAV Trooper Semper Paratus Volume XVIII, Issue 1 - March 2021 2020/2021 Reunion UpdateWith Vaccines for Covid being available and administered aggressively, we believe that, by the time of our reunion (rescheduled to October 20th thru the 24th this year) such a gathering will be safe, even for old geezers like us, as well as for our beautiful, young spouses or significant others. Our arrangement with the Sheraton Uptown Hotel in Albuquerque still stands.There are a multitude of things to see and do in the Albuquerque area, in addition to our normal re-telling of our adventures in Southeast…

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The move from LZ Nancy to Quang Tri

Damn thing looked like a Dragons breath comming out of the stairway Keith and Rag,  I remember when we gave LZ Nancy back to the ARVN some shit head higher up said we had to leave Nancy the way it was when it was built.  That is what the TOC had to go away.  I was around there for some reason about the time the TOC was destroyed.  There was a black dude who worked in base camp doing something and his job was to burn out the wood supports in the TOC so it would fall in on its…

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Sensory Overload

What sounds or smells in particular remind you of your time in Nam? Hey guys,I've mentioned this to a couple of you before, but it's worth another mention to satisfy curiosity. What sounds or smells, in particular, remind you of your time in Nam? And what tunes do you particularly associate with that time? A helicopter overhead still gives me the creeps, even though all the choppers were ours! And there's a damned air raid siren in the middle of my town which goes off at noon - three days ago I made the mistake of coming out of the library…

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Rains

It rained like a cow pissing on a flat rock during FOXHOLES LTeeF,  I can remember after being there for some months we started putting a firing position between the tracks every night.  Easy enough in the sand at Qua Viet but a real pain in the ass in some of the soil out west.  I started taking the tankers bar and sledge hammer and punching a hole down about 12 inches into the ground with the tankers bar and them stuffing it full of C4.  A quick placement of a claymore blasting cap and a walk to the other side of the…

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NDP – OPS – Patrols

NVA guys who smelled sooo BAD? North and West of A-4Sgt. Barrows/others where were we when we found those NVA guys who smelled sooo BAD? I recall we smelled them long before we saw them. I think the artillery had killed them some days before and they sat out there rotting and waiting for us to find them. We were told to take off their gear. I put my gas mask on and still couldn't stand the smell. Guess I got a profile not to take the gear due to extreme nausea. Malan Yea they definitely had a severe case of BO. Evidently…

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Mechanics

Brings back a great memory Brings back a great memory. The mechanics had a bunker at C-2. Ernie Holton (now deceased) relayed this story. The bunker had a parachute on the ceiling to keep dirt from falling on the bunks. A rat called "Freddie" would entertain the guys by running around on the parachute. One night, they left some cheese from a B-2 unit on the ledge above Sgt Peterson’s cot. The rat slipped in the middle of the night and landed on Pete. He about went nuts.   I recall the mechanics were good guys and good at their jobs. They…

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