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Posted 4-4-08
Can anybody help this Marine out??
my name is CLYDE W. LAWSON JR. I'm trying to find witch unit i was with-i have some memory loss so it's hard to figure out.I was in vietnam in 1966-67-- i went to a cap unit in 14jul67. My RECORD OF SERVICE shows===su#1==SerCo==HqBn==(rein)==1st Mar Div==(rein)==FMF==0311 Cap rifleman. I want to get more info as to which unit i might have been to.If you have a address or anything that i can go to for more info i would be thankful.I was in the 1st bn==1stmarines==1st marine div==DELTA co.=====Reply To: CPL.LAWSONTHANKS
Posted 1-11-08
Tim,
WELCOME HOME!!
I have been trying with no success (undoubtedly because of my electronic communication disability), to add a message to the guest book.
Richard Rockenstyre, the only son of Mrs. Dorothea Rockenstyre of Albany, New York, was killed by a sniper while with a CAP platoon on August 31, 1967.
Mrs. Rockenstyre remains anxious to connect with anyone who knew and served with Richard in Vietnam.
Would it be possible for me to pay for her membership in the CAP Association? Any information she would receive would be invaluable.
Thank you for your consideration.
Together Always,
Reply To: Don Amorosi
33 Wilson Avenue
South Glens Falls, New York 12803
518-792-2057
U.S. Navy Submarine Service, '63-'69
Posted 12/21/07
Chapman, Wayne, CAP Echo 2, 67-68
Posted 12/12/07
Did you happen to know a Marine named John I. Lathen "Jack" He served in Chulai from 65-66 and Danang from 67-68. I believe he worked in counterintelligence. Thank you for your time and thank you for your sevice to our country. Sam Lathen
Reply to: Sam Lathen
Posted 11/15/07
Tim-
I have attached a couple of photos taken in Bakersfield, CA in mid-Spetmeber, while I was in-state for a High School 45th Class reunion in Tulare, CA. Also included a photo taken of me next to the son of a baby I delivered in An Loc forty years ago. Mellow, very mellow.
Still practicing medicine without a license after all these years and still looking out for my beloved grunts. I remain ever faithful.
Semper Fi & Welcome Home. Tam biet.
Doc Rod 'Ruffmuthuh' Hardin
Gruntsplicer M-3-3-3 1966-67
Quang Tri Province USN/FMF/RVN
13642 Ambassador Drive
Germantown, MD 20874-2868
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Posted 11/11/07
Hi Tim
My name is Cot Fox and I was a squad leader and unit leader at Hotel 8 from May 67 until I was medevaced on 31 January 68. When I returned to the University of Missouri in the Fall of 1968 I met another CAP veteran, Pat Gaffney, at the School of Journalism.We became great friends and remained so until his death in 1993...For the life of me, however, I cannot remember which CAP unit he served in. I know it was one of the Danang area CAPS and his period of service would have encompassed both 1967 and 1968. Can you be of any help in trying to determine which Cap he served in?
Semper Fi
Reply To: Cot Fox
Posted 11/08/07
The CO of USMC Regimental Combat Team (RCT) 6 in Iraq, is asking for e-mails.
US Marine Colonel Simcock, the commander of USMC Regimental Combat Team (RCT) 6 in Iraq, is asking for 6,000 positive emails to his Marines. That's one email for each Marine in his RCT command. COL Simcock is concerned about the effect of the negative barrage that those Marines are getting through the electronic media. So far, they've only mustered 2,000 emails. That's a crying shame compared to the amount of crap I get daily in email. This is a legitimate request. It's not one of the "little Johnny wants to break the world's record in Christmas cards" situations. It takes only 30 seconds of your time.
Here's the email address: Letters From Home
If you're reading this email, then you can probably click on the address, type a few words, and then hit "send" to be all done It doesn't have to be the Gettysburg Address. Something as simple as "Hello, Marine. We thank you for what you're doing. You are in a noble task. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Best wishes & get home soon" is more than sufficient.
From Spence White
NOTE: I just sent off an e-mail thanking them for their service and asking if any Marines in Iraq would like to have their thoughts posted to the Web Site. Hope to hear from someone.....
Posted 11/06/07
Tim,
My name is Mike Moss. I am trying to find out some information on my dad's unit in Vietnam. Let me begin by saying that I think your website is great. My dad's name is Michael E. (Mickey) Moss. He served in the Marine Corps in Vietnam from March of 1969 to January of 1970. When he went to Vietnam he was stationed in Dong Ha. After a month he told me that his unit pulled out and he was then sent to Chu Lai. He said that was when he went to CAP school. He operated out of Chu Lai and Tam Ky. All that he can remember is that he was with 1st CAG and they worked together with the 132nd(?) Americal Division on operations in and around Chu Lai and Tam Ky. Is there anywhere else that I can find information regarding to this? Thank you.
Reply To: Mike Moss
Posted 11/04/07
Hi Tim,
I just wanted to tell you that I enjoyed looking at the web site, and learned alot about CAG units. My name is Joe Girten and I work for the Illinois State Police. My cousin Craig M. Clancy was in the Marines and was Killed in Action on June 18th 1969. He was Quang Ngai. Craig was like an older brother to me, and as a 13 year old I would write to him all of the time. I'm sure that Craig was in a CAG unit as I remember addressing his mail that way. He would always ask for the top 50 music surveys from the Chicago Area and I would send them to him. Not a day goes by that I don't think of him.
My question is this: I feel he should be on the web site, and was wondering if I could do some research to find out exactly what unit he was with? His parents are both dead, and he had a younger brother that just passed away in March of 07. Craig was married for 6 months before he was killed, and his wife Mary Ellyn was devasted. She withdrew from the family and has moved somewhere out of state.Thanks for any help. You can contact me by phone if you want.
If you can help, reply to Sgt J. Girten, Illinois State Police Dist. 15. Copy me so I can add Craig to the rosters per Sgt. Girten's request.
Dear Mr. Duffie:
My name is Jack Hoban. I am no longer on active duty, but remain a Subject Matter Expert for the Marine Corps Martial Arts Program (MCMAP). If you haven't heard of MCMAP, it is fairly new (conceived in 1996; kicked off in 2000). Despite it's name, the core of MCMAP is values training (the Ethical Warrior). In that regard, we have studied, closely, the philosophy and operations of the CAP Program.
There is a documentary being shot on a Robert Humphrey (deceased) who we believe was one of the philosophical contributors to the CAP Program, perhaps a low-profile one. (Humphrey, by the way, was also an Iwo Jima rifle platoon commander).
We are looking to contact Richard McGonigal and anyone else who may be aware of Humphrey's contribution to the CAP Program.
Any help you could provide would be appreciated.
Thank you.
Semper Fidelis,
Reply to: Jack Hoban
Would like to be put on e-mail list.. Or here from some other guys in my cap team...I was in country 69 70 with 1st cag cap 141..Hope to hear from some one...
Pat Ventresca usmc
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Semmens, Joe "Slime"Joe "Slime" Semmens (My father passed away and i was just writing to inform you. His name was Joseph Semmens of Cap 2-3-5. 11/1/2007), CAP 2-3-5, 69-70
From The Louisville Reunion
Posted 11/03/07
Dave's Blogspot: Dave Kuhary, CAP 2-1-8, blog with graphics of his return to Vietnam.
Posted 10/29/07
Dear Mr. Duffie,
I am the wife of Marine Paul M. Tabian who was with the 1st CAG 3rd Marines in 1968/69 in Chu Lai Vietnam. My husband recently (Nov. 17, 2005) had surgery to remove a brain tumor and at the same time suffered a stroke. The surgery was done at the Veterans Hospital in Los Angeles, Ca.
Paul now has Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The stroke has released all of his bad memories of the war. We have been married for 37 years and he is now telling me things of the war that he has never told me before. Paul has short term memory loss and speech/communication disorder. I applied for compensation for service connected due to PTSD. But as usual his claim was denied. The VA RO wants places and names of units he belonged to I guess to match his stressors to them. I wrote to tell them that due to his stroke Paul has lost alot of memory. In fact the first denial came back stating that he did not go to Vietnam. His DD214 shows he served in Vietnam and he belonged to the 1 CAG.
I found your website one evening (12:30 a.m.) and found a picture of Paul in your 1969 CAG Year book! He was in Pg. 19 (he's the one without his shirt on) in the transport barracks and also he's in the picture with another Marine on top of the truck with the caption that says, We did it Sgt.
Can you please add Paul to your email list of CAG Marines. I hope that someone will recognize Paul by picture and name. Paul has lived in Delano, CA all of his life. He is now totally disabled due to his surgery and stroke and is unable to handle his own affairs and that's where I come in. The VA doctors wanted to admit Paul to a Mental Hospital but I refused and brought him home and he's doing better now thanks to God.
Wish me luck with his claim.
Reply To: Gloria Tabian
Posted 8/30/07
See posting from 8/29/07
Tim,
Thanks for the update to your web site. Some additional info I've uncovered today. I've got one of Murphy's letters dated 30 May 1970 assigning him in early May 70 to CAP 3-4-3 located north of Hue. He writes "It's not bad but I guess I can hack it for the next 83 days until they pull me out of the field and send me home." In what geographical oparea was CAP 3-4-3 located on June 5, 1970?
Semper Fi
Tom
Posted 8/29/07
Tim,
I'm helping the niece of Sgt. Murphy, Teresa Newman of Pacifica California with some research on her uncle who served in possibly the 3-1-2 and 3-1-4 CAP. She furnished a photo of him to include in your site.
I'm a Navy vet, (1991 Persian Gulf War) and Second Vice Commander of Pacifica, CA American Legion Post 238 here. I've taught U.S. history on the middle and high school level and hope that when I can, will include your site as a valuable classroom tool for my students completing projects on the Vietnam War.
You can reach Teresa at the following address:
If you can put a general "In Search of" note on your site and his photo, she certainly would appreciate it. Any Marine who served with Murphy or who might have known him is also welcome to contact Teresa by mail or email as well.
Your website is a great resource of information for military historians and teachers alike.
(I took a break from teaching for the past two years to help publish the posthumous wartime memoir of my girlfriend's late stepfather, an Army combat newsreel cameraman during the Italian Campaign of WW2. My father had served in the Army's 7th Armored Division during the Battle of the Bulge and I help provide content and research for his unit's unofficial web site.)
Thanks
Tom Sullivan, Pacifica, CA
650-359-3285
Posted 8/23/07
Arnold Kearney sent this graphic of a CAC Unit he helped start up about June, 1967. He can't remember the Unit designation....he was in 4th. CAG and spent a some time with Papa 2 before moving off to set up the new unit.
Send your info to: Arnold Kearney
Posted 7/31/07
Tim,
My name is Mark Schwed. I am a reporter at the Palm Beach Post. I have been given, by a Gold Star mother, a bag of letters from her two sons. One, Thomas Folden, was a Marine Cpl. in Vietnam from Oct. 1967 until his death there in March 1969. His letters home are addressed: ca co or ca-ca-2-1 CAP 2-1-1, 2nd Combined Action Group. I can't locate the 2-1-1 on your website. He seems to have served in a compound in Hoa Phu near Danang. But that may be incorrect. He received a Navy Commendation medal, two Purple Hearts, etc. He is listed on the Vietnam Memorial. I'm trying to write a story about him and would love to locate anyone who might have served with him. Any ideas for where I would start? He trained at Paris Island in May 1967. Thank you for your help.
Reply To: Mark Schwed
The Palm Beach Post
561-820-4510
Posted 6/9/07
Sir,
I am researching my cousin, Carl Wayne Dorries who served in Vietnam. He was killed in Thua Thien in January 1968, while seving in CAP Hotel-8, CACO Hotel, 3'rd CAG, III MAF.
Any information you can give me would be most appreciated. For one, what is the meaning behind his unit identification?
Thank You,
Reply To: Gavin M. Hill
17066 Darby Drive
Forney, Texas 75126
972.564.0750
Posted 4/5/07
Hello, my name is Damon Suiter and I just read the story about the young girl that you and 2 other marines saved. It sounded alout like some thing my father was involved in. His name is Dale Suiter he was in 2nd CAG in Hoy An I think. Any way I have been buging him to go to a reunion to see if he remembers any one from back then and he said as soon as I make it home from Iraq we will go togather. You see I have wondered so many years about that part of my dads life and when I found this web site of yours I was so exsited and I told him your name and he said that he has heard of you but he could not remember if you seaverd togather or not. I have been deployed now to Iraq for 8 months and I will be heading home in Agust if all goes right well you know how that goes with all this talke of exstions. I am in the Motor T with the army if you have any info that my help me try and get my father in touch with some of the men he served with I will owe you one thank you and take care. My father also has alout of photos from his first tour his friend Jonny Prezeose took them just befor he was killed during TET 68. I belive my father was there 67-68 68-69 but if you would like to get a hold of him his E-mail is suiterd@kirtland.edu. You can reach me at this adress I know you are probibky very busy but I know my father would like to get back in touch with the guys he always wounders how many are left. Thank you again for any help you can give.
Thank you
Respond To: Sgt. Damon Suiter
Respond To: Dale Suiter, Quebec 3
1461st CBT HET
Tikrit Iraq
Sir:
I am a reporter with The Trentonian newspaper in Trenton, NJ. Each year I write a series of stories about our local "Hometown Heroes" for Memorial Day. This year my stories will center around our local veterans who were killed in Vietnam during 1967.
LCpl David T. Bryant, of Trenton, was killed in action on September 10, 1967. Your website lists him as a member of CAP Delta 4.
I am looking to talk to anyone who may have known LCpl. Bryant, and especially anyone who can shed light on the facts surrounding his death.
I was hoping that maybe I could reach out to the members of your website for hel[p in writing this story.
Your help would be greatly appreciated.
Respond To: Charles Webster
Columnist/Staff Writer
The Trentonian
600 Perry St
Trenton, NJ, 08618
(Office) 609-989-7800 x 292
(Toll Free) 1-800-806-7705
(Cell) 732-948-7438
(Fax) 609.393.6072
Posted 3/12/07
Tim My name is James E. Worrall I was wondering if you could tell me how these lists were made up. I was in the CAP. 3RD Cag. I'm not sure of the dates or areas. I lost a lot of memories of that time. I'm going to try and get my records to help me remember some things. I plan on going to the reunion this year. Hope I meet someone that recognizes me to help me remember.
Thanks for any help you can give me.
Respond To: James E. Worrall
Posted 3/9/07
Dear Mr. Duffie,
My name is Miles Kitts. I am an American conducting a PhD at the University of Queensland, Australia. My PhD topic is focusing on assessing counter-insurgency strategies. As such, I am interested in researching the Combined Action Program. Would it be possible for your organization to assist me in my research? This would mostly involve helping to arrange interviews with participants of the Program. It would also involve assistance in acquiring relevant documents.
Do you think you can help me?
Thank you,
Respond To: Miles Kitts.
Posted 3/4/07
Hello,
I am Pat Thomas and was stationed in Chu Lai with 1st MAW in Nov 67 to Nov 68. We did some dental and medical CAPs out of there and drove in a jeep, crossed a river in a barge and then, picked up a young man to interpret. Then went to a CAP unit and then into the village for the medical/dental work. I have photos but wonder what unit I was at. What can I do to find out?
Thanks and I enjoyed the site, very well done.
Respond To: Pat Thomas
Posted 2/10/07
Does anyone out there remember me...??
I went to CAP School for 2 weeks at the start of 1970..I spent some time in a CAP unit and a CUPP unit later ... I think I was with 1-3-8(?). I don't remember the CUPP. The number 4/2 sticks in my head.
Gene Uptmore...your picture looks familiar to me...but I am unsure.
I lived outside of Phila, Pa. then and I still do...
It has taken me years to just send this e-mail ...I have almost attend the last two reunion, but I am not there yet...maybe this one...none-the-less Mike Zahner reporting in...
Just reading the stuff on this site is great...good job all
Reply To: Mike Zahner
Posted 2/6/07
Tim,
Dave Taylor here.
I have been writing a book about the Vietnam history of the 5th/46th Infantry Battalion (Bob Cummings from our battalion had supplied some info to you previously for the web site). Do you have a reference as to when the CAP teams were formed and when they closed down? I am specifically interested in the formation of the CAP’s 1-4-1 & 1-4-6 which I believe were formed as a result of Operation Russell Beach and Bold Mariner, the combined Army / Marine operation on the Batangan Peninsula in January & February 1969. It seems like those CAPs were then formed to add stability and security to the refugee villages (“New Life Hamlets”) that were formed as a result of that operation. Any help you can give would be appreciated.
As a side-note, I have all the 5th/46th Battalion Daily Operational Journals (usually 6-12 pages/day) which in many days includes reports of actions in the CAPs (130-series and 140-series) which were in the battalions AO. If there are any questions about a particular incident, I’d be happy to check my files.
Reply To: Dave Taylor
Medina, Ohio
(PS: The battalion arrived in March 1968. I am currently in the June 1969 time frame for my book).
Posted 2/3/07
Tim,
I just received the information back from the Records Center about my brother, Cpl. Daniel J. Heibel. His record states that he was assigned to:
Anyway, thanks for all of your help and have a great rest of 2007.
Semper Fi,
Reply To: John Heibel
Hello All,
I am looking for any info, pictures, and other Marines that may or may not have been at Chu Lai from around the fall of 64' to the spring of 66'... My dad served there during that time frame, his name is Richard "Dick" Smith from Buffalo, New York. He was part of the VMFA-513 as a jet mechanic by day and then fought off the V.C. at night to protect the runway and the jets..
Any info would be greatly appreciated..
Sincerely,
Reply To: Chris Smith
Thank You For All You Have Done....
Great, great site.
I was with the Army EOD Team in Phu Bai 1969-70. Went on many, many calls to CAP locations. Had a good friend from 3rd Force Recon, Denny Dreibert, who went to a CAP Team. Didn't see him again until six months later when we got a call about a mine in the floor of his village's school. We flew in, got off the chopper and then his ugly ass walks around the corner. Totally the bomb. We disarmed the IED because we would have destroyed the school if we had blown it. Got a letter from him about a week later telling us the VC had hit the school two days later with RPGs and destroyed it. The bastards.
Anyway, I am working on a book about my two tours and am researching the I Corps areas where we operated, which is how I found your site. Also learned that Sen. Jim Webb was also in Phu Loc, according to his web site. Went on several calls out of Phu Loc where 3-2 was located. What memories looking at your site.
Welcome home, bro'. By the way I am a life member of VVA in Oregon. My card is No. 354. One of the first in 1978. Also a National Service Officer and retired public defender. If you want to see what VVA is doing in the Oregon High Desert, check our site at COVO-USA.
Reply To: Stu Steinberg
Posted 1/28/07
Based on research by Sandy Wardlaw, added two KIA listings from CAP Bravo 1:
Posted 1/24/07
Tim,
Re CAC 2 near Phu Bai, I would like to find some information about the exact location of that unit and the men that were assigned there in the early months of 1966.
Reply To: Larry L. Hoedl, HM3, CAC #2
Posted 1/23/07
Hi Brother:
I am Steve Metje, CW04 SMCR, still on duty and preparing to formally retire 1 May 2007. I joined the Marine Corps Dec 1965, did four years and quit. Then reenlisted in1985 with over 15 years broken time and started over as a 36 year old sgt. I was mobilized for the first Gulf War and again in 2003 for OIF/OEF. During my Viet Nam Tour Aug 67-Sept 68 I was part of MAG-11 Civil Affairs Team which served and co-located with a CAP in several locations for various periods of time. One location was Echo 2 and another was Echo 4, with other short term assignments. Can you point me towards any info about those particular CAPS as well as their correct and complete identification? I would like to cite the information as a small piece of my career bio when I retire.
Thank you sincerely.
Respectfully,
Reply To: Steve Metje
Posted 1/14/07
Tim,
My name is Tony Johnson. I was assigned to a CAP unit in 1968. Actually, I was assigned as a support person, not really a member of the CAP organization. I was a 106 recoiless rifle gunner assigned to 1/7 and detailed for a time to a CAP unit southwest of Danang near hill 10. I do not remember the designation of the CAP unit where I was assigned. It had been the place near where one of the first rocket attacks on Danang had originated. The 106 was there to suppress rocket attacks by firing on rocket sites during launches. Of course, it was also very useful for the defense of the CAP unit.
I do not remember the names of any of the CAP members. I was probably there for a couple of months. We 106 guys rotated the duty there. I do remember that it was on the Son Tuy Loan river.
Do you know what unit that was and any information about the guys who I served with there? Any information would be appreciated.
Semper Fi,
Reply To: Tony Johnson (Genius)
Posted 1/13/07
I was part of a CAP unit in August / September 1968. The unit was formed from about 15/16 guys from 5th communication battalion and was assigned to 2nd CAP for about one month. In that time we were in 3 different villages’s on the Danang peninsula between 3 MAF headquarters and Monkey Mountain.
Any idea what this unit was called?
Reply To: Dave Wiley
My name is G. T. Douglas I was in Nam 68-69 I was with cap 4-1-6, I wanted to no how I get my dd-214 updated with the citations our unit recived in Nam. If you can help or know anything about this matter let me know.....
Thanks for your time
SEMPER FI Reply To:George Douglas
Tim,
I hope this email is active. I am Jimmy Allen Metcalf's Brother-in-law. He was a casualty of the TET offensive of Feb 68 that is on the Web posting you did of Tiny's recollections. Is Tiny still alive?
I also am a Viet Vet USMC - 68-71.
My mother-in-law and Father-in-law were happy to read the posted info after so long a period of time.
SemperFi
Joe Chamberlain
Posted 1/12/07
Hi Tim,
SEMPER FI! My name is Ray Melens and I too am a Marine Corps Vietnam Vet. I had a buddy of mine that was assigned to 4th CAG in early 1969, around March. His name was L/Cpl Tom O'Brien 2478177. His MOS was 3371 (cook) I was wondering if you knew him or if you know of anyone that might know him. I have been trying to locate him for probably 20 years now with no luck. I know his home town was Cleveland, Ohio. If you could please check with some of your old 4th CAG buddy's and see if anyone knows of him or his where about's, I would really appreciate it.
Thanks for your help
Reply To: Ray Melens
Posted 1/11/07
I received the following note from Jack McCallum. Subsequent to corresponding with him, I discovered an Excel database I'd forgotten I had. On that database I found the following information:
SURETTE WILLIAM WARREN JR, SSG
If anyone can provide information to Jack regarding SSgt. Surette, please feel free to contact him directly.
ENDICOTT, NY
01/20/1970
05/23/1940
14W-050
CAP 2-9-2, CACO 2-9, 2ND CA GRP, COMBINED ACTION, 3RD MAF
From: Jack McCallum
Subject: William Warren Surette
Hello,
My name is Jack McCallum. I'm a writer at Sports Illustrated, though this e-mail has nothing to do with sports.
My best friend, Robert Gasko, died in Vietnam on Jan. 20, 1970, the same day as Mr. Surette. I had the idea to do a book about that day, talk about the men (there were 11 of them) who died, both their life and death. It would be sort of a mini-history of the war, told through one day.
I've been in touch with a gentleman from Georgia, Ken Davis, who gave me your e-mail address. He also gave me e-mail addresses of two men, Sam Hughes ad Steve Mollica, who served with Mr. Surette, though their e-mails came back.
Can you help me get in touch with family, friends and men who served with him? Any leads you could offer would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks very much.
Jack McCallum
Posted 12/16/07
Mike Kline
Posted 11/09/07
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CAP 1-3-5 Graphics submitted by Allen Sells:
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