Posted on Aug 20, 2022
Should Vietnam-era Vets be addressed as "Vietnam Vets"? | RallyPoint
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Congratulations to RallyPoint, its creators and administrators, and all of its members. Like all social media, there are times and people who diminish it through disrespect. Then there's this example, a discussion begun in 2015 and still ongoing. Have you ever seen the like of it on any other form of social media? I haven't...
Should Vietnam-era Vets be addressed as "Vietnam Vets"? | RallyPoint
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CPT Jack Durish: I posted the following on the original post, but am posting it here as well...as added information to this post:
I am a Vietnam Era Veteran, but I served states side at an at a USAF assigned Air Defense Command (ADC) Base supporting it's assigned mission to Patrol and safe guard the Coastline of the Eastern Seaboard from Canada down to Cuba or thereabouts... (There was also a sister command site on the West coast doing the same monitoring on their coastline.) We used RC-121 Radar aircraft at the time before over the Horizon radar was developed... It was an important role to exercise and we did it like the Professional Military men and women we were at that time... I am okay with being a Vietnam Era Veteran not having served "In-Country" in Vietnam, even though any of us could have been given orders at any time to pack our bags and be reassigned there... It is the military, it is the way of life... We serve where we are ordered to go...irrespective of branch of service or level... Respect Always, Warriors for Life!
I am a Vietnam Era Veteran, but I served states side at an at a USAF assigned Air Defense Command (ADC) Base supporting it's assigned mission to Patrol and safe guard the Coastline of the Eastern Seaboard from Canada down to Cuba or thereabouts... (There was also a sister command site on the West coast doing the same monitoring on their coastline.) We used RC-121 Radar aircraft at the time before over the Horizon radar was developed... It was an important role to exercise and we did it like the Professional Military men and women we were at that time... I am okay with being a Vietnam Era Veteran not having served "In-Country" in Vietnam, even though any of us could have been given orders at any time to pack our bags and be reassigned there... It is the military, it is the way of life... We serve where we are ordered to go...irrespective of branch of service or level... Respect Always, Warriors for Life!
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CPL Douglas Chrysler
Cuba was a bigger deal than most people know. So, you were like front line defense.
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My dad was a Vietnam era vet as a Marine reservist. Not once did he refer to himself as a "Vietnam vet". He went out of his way to make sure the guys who went over there knew that when they came into Keizer, OR Legion Post #17 as dad was the commander. He had friends who volunteered for active duty to go over there. I think dad felt some remorse for not volunteering but he had a wife and three kids to take care of and he had watched his dad leave for Europe in September, 1944. He was proud to have been a Marine though. He served from 1958 to 1967 and was medically discharged for a shattered ankle.
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MCPO Roger Collins
I agree with your father. I’m classified as a Vietnam vet, but would never claim that classification. I have too much respect for those in country that were exposed to combat. I’ll take a back seat as a Vietnam era bet.
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