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

E-2/327th 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

Echo Company



Lt. James Mason - 1969	The "James Mason Memorial Bridge," Camp Eagle click on image to enlarge

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Worn in '70-'71. Hawk Recon, Snipers and Mortars at that time were all in Company E		Patch worn in the states. 1980 I went to Fort Campbell and Hawk Recon was still a unit but for the most part it all has been forgotten except for those of us that were a Hawk. Jerry Hoy "NO SLACK"

Troopers

Joseph Adcock
Kenneth R. Anderson
Douglas R. Bergman
Bobby Bynum
Dave "Doc" Campbell
David G. Coffee
Steve Dahlgren
Dave Dresser
Bill Drypolcher
Woodrow "Woody" Dudley
Leonardo R. "Chico"Escalante Sr.

Gordie Hall
Dan Hickman
Stephen Horn
Jerry Hoy
Fred Izard
Walter Jackson
Edwin M. Lindley
Malcolm Makua
Hank Maze
Jay Molyneaux
Charles Neathery

Tom "Streak" Nerney
Nelson "Chico" Ramos
Dean "Doc" Ramsey
Jerry T. Risner
John Robert
Robert D. Russell
Harry W. Strachan
John (Jack) Teece
Tony Teofilak
David "Hawk" Wayne
John L. Wolfgang Jr.
James Zuver