H&HC 2/327th Infantry "No Slack" Vietnam | 101st Airborne 327 Infantry

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

H&HC 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

Headquarters & Headquarters Company

Original Hawk Recon Members '65/'66
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Left - Right/Top - Bottom Lt. Johnson; SP/4 Weed; SP/4 Butler; PSG Geo. (Bill) Day; SGT Antonich; PFC Kroeger; SP/4 Stepp; SP/5 Smith; PFC Raliegh; Sgt. Davis; SP/4 Lilly; SP/4 Baskett; SP/4 Lafferty; SP/4 Foster; PFC Stiles; SP/4 Vester; SP/4 French; SP/4 McHugh; SP/4 Hamey; SP/4 Moore; Missing due to wounds: SP/4 DeBonis; SP/4 Campbell; SSG Ipock (Squad Leader); SP/4 Scaiffe

HH&C Medics '66/'67
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Above: Medic Platoon/Tuy Hoa in 1966 (or '67) sometime after Trung Luong. Back right Janus; Patterson; ?; Luther Ambrose; Ken Gates; 4th from left - Delbridge; next to him Bagley. All were on Hill 258 Trung Luong.
Middle right Brown; Mac; Will Young; ?; Sesma: Battle? and far left - Marshall.
Front row all worked at the battalion Aid Station. Far right Clark; Clark; Medical Service Officer; the Battalion Surgeon is third from left and next to him is the supply officer from the 4th Infantry, Dyke, a legg. But, in Kontum he made five jumps and became Airborne; And far left DuBuse?

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Recon Platoon 1966

Hawks of 1967

Left to Right - Front row: English, Sherwood, Morehouse, Thorberg, Skuza, McGiver, Sylvester. Middle row: ?, ?, ?, ?, Ewing, Meyer, ?. Top row: Westerman, ?, Crane, Ursillo, Karpuska, Copeland, Molesko, Slade, Jones

Left to Right. Kneeling: Stock, Jones, Westerman, Morales. Standing front row: Paschall, ?, Kirst, Sylvester, Meyer, ? Copeland, Karpuska, Bowen. Back row: Molesko, Moses, ?, ?, Morehouse, ?, McGiver, Ewing, Goodwin, ?, Childress.

Troopers

J.H. Alexander
Greg Apraham
Ted Arnold
Norm Bagley
Chuck Beegle
Ed Bennington
Douglas R. Bergman
Joe K. Berry
Joseph Bossi
Dallas E. Brown
Dennis R. Bruce
Raymond Capwell
Charlie Cato
Allen R. Christensen
Scott A. Christofferson
James G. Condon III
Patrick Conway
Leland R. Cottin
Robert E. Cox
Robert (Bob) W. Crosby
Steve Dahlgren
Vern J. DeBonis
Curtis Duco
Adam Dunaway
Charles W. "Ramrod" Dyke
Martin P. Eastham
Robert Emerson

Matt English
Drake Erlenbach
Leonardo R. "Chico" Escalante Sr.
Jim Foster
Dan French
Donald Friend
Sid Fuller
Alen L. Gardner
Ken Gates
Michael R. Hall
Gregory A. Harper
Ronald Harrah
Phillip J. Harvey
Joseph W. Henson
Montie T.S. Hess
Fredrick J. Hoffman
John Holloway
Bruce M. Johnson
Robert "Doc" Keck
Bill Keller
Allen W. Lloyd
Tom McHugh
John P. McKenzie
Harry M. McNally
Roderick Marshall
Herb Martinez
Nick Mihalic

Jay Molyneaux
John Montgomery
Ed Morales
Charles J. Murphy Jr.
Richard G. Murphy
Earnest Nance
Wayne H. Nelson
Shirley W. O'Boyle
Phillip S. Ortega
Jon Page
Chuck Payne
Leonard Pinaud
Terence Pratt
Robert D. Russell
Joseph Russella
Richard C. Schonberger
Jim "Doc" Stephens
John R. Stiles
Walt Stock
John Thorburn
Bob Valentine
Paul E. Vallely
Steve "Doc" Vargo
Jon Vermilye
Fredrick H. Vester
James A. Warren
Norvell J. Webb