2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division

C-2/327 Infantry "No Slack" Vietnam

Name: Melvin Fenn
Hometown: Alvarado , Texas
Date: July 28, 2010 - 11:58 AM (pacific)

Great site. I can smell burning bamboo and taste the unique taste of the water there. My achilles still hurt so I have that effect going. Very proud I served; collectively we halted the cancer of communisim in that region of the world. We had a window of opportunity, for the blink of time we were just the right age...we took it and served. --Shot in right calf, medic Pate fixed it, did not infect...no lost time since we did not move much just then. A rare time of carrying a rolled up poncho at all, shot through it into the butt...Pate and Lt Eklund pulled it out...don't think any of us enjoyed it. Laughing. Grenade to right side during an assualt; no idea where we were when that thing flipped me, but instantly back to the feet as if carrying a fountain drink and not wanting to spill a bit...another piece of those frags just may be making it to the surface at this very time, and it is minorly exciting after so many decades. Bad deal on a parachute jump (no idea of who to thank for getting me out of that little deployment), and a comma for a few days, then right back to work. No purple hearts, as they were refused, same as I saw other guys do for insignificant wounds. I remember a cigarette lighter we were given just prior to leaving, one of my daughters holds it now, it reads on the face: "America's Finest at Freedoms Frontier". Wow, did I wear out several pairs of boots for that honor. We were tired, right! ---I've had a great life as I hope others have as well...lustfull times, confused times, fortunate and earned...most things once wronged were gotten 'better'. I Cannot complain.

Vietnam 2nd battalion

Charlie Company

2nd Platoon in Kontum Jan. or Feb. 1967
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Top row Left to right; Moses (from La ?) Tony Dean, Lyle Scott Dye, Kirk (Calif) Jeff Nichols, Smith ,?,? Evans (Philly), Hosteter (NJ)Carson (Cincinatti) Second Row left to right; Johnny Albritton (La.), Grady, Sam Greer (Chicago), Thomas (Moose) Hoeniges (Bloomington, IL), Scott Rapier, Ken Potts, Stafford (only guy to catch Phubonic plague), Campbell, Frenchy Bottom row left to right; ? , Sgt. Harvey, Sgt. Pryor,?, Sgt. Campbell (our first sniper) ,? , Sgt Lovett.

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Col. Wassco and Cpt Moody ( "C" Co. C.O. ) taken at Kontum

Troopers

Johnny B. Albritton
Donald D. Ashworth
Ronald K. Aubuchon
Richard R. Bathurst
Chuck Beegle
Michael Bolinger
Richard W. Boyanton
Justin Paul Brda
Mark Bredehoft
Ed Brunno
Albert Burciaga
Chapman Burgess
Jay S. Butala
Michael R. Callaway
Charlie Cato
Clarence Chandler
Allen R. Christensen
Richard Christian
William J. (Jack) Cochran
Patrick Conway
Robert M. Cooke
Joseph H. Cooper Jr.
Thomas L. Crabtree
Robert (Bob) W. Crosby
Donald L. Curtis
Ben Daggett
John C. Davis
Anthony Dean
Derrell DeLoach
Raymond Dowden
Frank "Bulldog" Drummond
Woodrow "Woody" Dudley
Martin P. Eastham
Michael L. Ebert
Harold T. Edmondson Jr.
David H. Elisovsky
Eddie L. Ephraim
Leonardo R. "Chico" Escalante Sr.
Michael J. Feagan
Jeffrey (Dave) Fletcher
John M. Frambes
James E. Fuller
Michael K. Geiger
David A. Gentry
Harry Gilchrest
Philip Goode
Dave Gray
John J. Gray Jr.

Tom Groll
Robert R. Groom
Andrew L. Harris
Phil Hea
Nelson P. Henry
John W. Herring
Dan Hickman
John W. Hill III
Stephen Horn
Robert Hudson
Don (Curly) Jackson
Jim "Jungle Jim" Joiner
Ronald J. Jones
Robert "Doc" Keck
William M. Kelly
Sam Kennett
Brett C. "Kidd" Klein
Dan Knox
Bobby "Redhawk" Laney
Robert C. Langford
Tim Lickness
James F. Lilly
David Lindwall
Charles R. Lovedahl "Crazy Horse"
Edgar B. Lueallen
Stan Lyons
Arthur B. Macdonald
Barry W. McCleary
Pat McConville
James R. McIlwee
Rafael A. Madrigal-Cordero Jr.
Raymond C. Mahns
Earl A. Mailloux
Antonio M. Mavroudis "Zorba"
Hank Maze
Sal Melendez
Mario Mendoza
Dennis W. Miller
Robert Moon
Clyde V. Moore
John Moore
Willie J. Moore
Richard G. Murphy
Thomas M. Murray
David R. Myers

Jesse W. Myers
Wayne H. Nelson
Jeff Nichols
Vincent A. Nolin
Geno Paiz
Gerald P. Parkel
Robert A. Peach
Ted "Weasel" Penton
Mark Phelan
Warren E. Phillips
Danny "Duck" Pitman
Tom "Doc" Quinn
Ted Radai
Scott Rapier
Dean "Doc" Ramsey
Wayne L. Roberts
John W. Rowland Jr.
Frederick L. Ryan
Nick Saladino
Rudolpho Sanchez
George Santaguida
John Sarno
Bruce M. Schultz
Donald L. Smith
Mike Smith
Sam Staggs
Ronald T. Stetter
Billy E. Stevenson
Carl M. Stitely
Harry W. Strachan
John L. Thomas
Justin G. Turnbull
Mel Valentine
Steve "Doc" Vargo
Gus Vass
Robert Vaughn
Thomas "Heavy" Villanueva
Rich Walsh
Glenn "Rebel" Watkins
Jim "Doc Suffer" Webb
Garry Wilhelmi
Ronald D. Williams
David O. Williamson
Nathaniel Wilson
John L. Wolfgang Jr.