Month: March 2022

Featured Comments   The following are a selection of the many comments we receive from veterans, their families, and just some interested folks who took the time to find our website. This page will change from time to time as comments are brought to our attention. Please keep coming back for a current sitrep. The […]

A TRAGIC WALK BACK THRU TIME   March 25, 2022 11:21 PM When I see the aimed and unaimed artillery and airstrikes of the Russian Army I go back to two truths of the Vietnam War; 1. UNLIKE WHAT THE PRESS OF THE DAY REPORTED WE, UNLIKE THE RUSSIANS TODAY, DID NOT TARGET THE CITIES, […]

Delta Air Strike   August 10, 1968 2nd battalion’s newly formed “Delta Company” was decimated by their own air strike. Eight were killed and over 50 wounded. Posted here are stories from a few that were there that awful day:   Ben Costello, Delta Company Machinegunner- As I recall the incident began mid-afternoon or so […]

Coke/Pepsi Kids Nuoc Ngot Bridge   Photos contributed by David "Hawk" Wayne Rumor was true. First time we made a CA into the Ashau Valley we had turned Nuc Ngot security over to an ARVN outfit. We were told we weren't out of sight good and the V C blew the train off the track [...]

M-79 – M-148 – M-203 in Vietnam continues   I hear all this tripe about John Fonda Kerry winning a Purple Heart by getting hit but scrapmetal from his own 79 round. Well, one beautiful night in the Ashau, one of our guys threw a frag a little too close. I took a hit in […]

M-79 – M-148 – M-203 in Vietnam   Is the M203 of 1970 and 1990 still called the 203 or is it M203A1. I must have used the modern version with the NG.. Would like to get to Campbell before I get in the ground. I only saw the M-79 for a grenade launcher and […]

FSB Tomahawk Brothers, A few years back, maybe even before the 327th Vietnam Eagles web site was launched in 2000 we had a pretty good discussion on the two attacks on FSB Tomahawk that took place almost a year apart in June of 1969 and 1970. At the time we had the discussion thread going […]

M-16 Chatter   Click here for The Saga of the M16 in Vietnam by Dick Culver (part 1 & part 2) This site was sent to us by our Marine friend, Ironman, and it seems to have brought many memories of the M-16 to the front. So much in fact, we decided to capture as […]

Exiting a Slick at Altitude (Rappelling)     Anyone remember the Rappelling Thing in 67 , Out around Duc Pho, or? Chu Lie in the mountains… That ! Liked Tah , “SKAIREID DAH HAM & SLYMMEEZE ! Out of This Ole Fat, White Boy ! TWAN’T, Too bad. Til, Some Body (?) Handed Me A […]

Chargin’ Charlie Beckwith   Through this e-list, the web site, and our reunions, many Chargin’ Charlie stories have surfaced: I wonder if there is a biography on him? Our 327th website database has much info and memories about Beckwith. He was well known for that 51 cal scar he liked to display, at one of […]