What its like to be Wounded in Combat
Category My Military Subjects
A Power Point Presentation on the Vietnam war and French Indochina in general
The following attached presentation was written to give to a local school a dozen years ago. It was meant to give a historical account of Indochina in general and the consequences of the Vietnam work in particular. This picture is me in the Jungle, Im the one on the right with my hand on my hip.
This is the link to download the Power Point
Diary of a Special Forces Trooper (Green Beret) in Vietnam on the Cambodian Boarder in 1967
This is a book I started writing in in 1965 and made adjustments to up until recently as new information was uncovered. The company that published it is no longer in existence, and no hard copies are available. Attached in a fee down load PDF file. The picture below is of me on break during a patrol in late October 1967 to do a BDA after an Arc Light B 52 flight near the Cambodian border between Bu Dop A-341 and a sister SF camp Noc Ninh A-331 West of us.
An Interview with a Green Beret
This Video and related article were published originally on January 20, 2019
Click Link Below to read Article from the Cleveland Plain Dealer
Vietnam Veterans Day
I was there in 1967 and we lost 5 men in my A-team and 2 others that were in support of us.
A Green Beret (me) Talking about Vietnam in 1967
The following is a 2 hour podcast recorded between 1000 and 1200 on November 10, 2019 in the studios of WHK 1420 broadcasting from Cleveland Ohio.
Gerry Quinn’s Irish Radio 11-10-19
The first hour is about the Irish civil war and the American civil war, which is very informative and worth listening to. I speak in the 2nd hour about some of my experiences in Vietnam between September 1967 and December 1967 when I was wounded in a fire fight near the Cambodian border in III Corps. After recovering I wrote down what happened to me because my mom and my wife made me do it. Always listen to your mom and your wife. I think it may have helped me avoid PTSD for we were not treated well after coming back to the world all the way to the 1990’s.
In the section on this blog titled My Books and Papers is a copy of the the book I wrote from the work I did while in the hospital in 1968. The title is Diary of a Special Forces Trooper in Vietnam 1967.
The Ballad of the Green Berets performed by Letters from Home Singers
Two Great Songs about “Combat” the first from Sailor Jerri Hallelujah (two versions) and the second from Mitch Rossells A Soldier’s Memoir, if you haven’t been in Combat, and survived, you will not understand the power of this music.
Flight deck to a stage…
Sailor Jerri is a Navy Veteran from central Minnesota. While serving in the US Navy she worked as an Aviation Mechanic on F/A 18’s with the VFA 83 Rampagers. Jerri started playing guitar and singing for the long term care at the VA, and in veteran support groups. In April of 2017 she wrote and posted “Hallelujah Veterans Version” In just a year it was viewed over 125 million times, and downloaded in 22 countries. That was the beginning of her music career! She has been busy writing and in the Studio ever since. “No Rules In Sight” her new album, was released on April 13, 2018! It hit #14 on the country charts. It is available on the website, iTunes, and Google play. Jerri started her year in February 2019 when she took off for Las Vegas to begin her 2019 tour at Mandalay Bay. Already added to the schedule is over 16 states and 45 shows. Jerri filmed a music video for her original song “I’m Going Anyway” in her squadron’s hanger on Naval Air Station Oceana. It was released in September and has been watched over 210k times so far!
The First from Sailor Jerri:
Hallelujah Veterans Version, Original
Published on Apr 4, 2017
Hallelujah Veterans Version, Final
Published on May 10, 2017
The Second is also good:
Mitch Rossell – A Soldier’s Memoir (Official Music Video)
Published on Jun 19, 2014
Two Great Songs about “Combat” the first from Sailor Jerri Hallelujah (two versions) and the second from Mitch Rossells A Soldier’s Memoir, if you haven’t been in Combat, and survived, you will not understand the power of this music.
The First from Sailor Jerri:
Hallelujah Veterans Version, Original
Published on Apr 4, 2017
Hallelujah Veterans Version, Final
Published on May 10, 2017
Book on my Service in Vietnam, Written in 1996
From the Introduction in the book …
The following account is written from notes I made while in the hospital in San Antonio recovering from wounds I received while in Vietnam and from communications I had with 5th Special Forces Group when I was stationed at Fort Campbell in 1968 and 1969. More recently I read several books on Vietnam (in 1992), listed in the Bibliography, which aided me in the geography of the area and which put the fighting I was involved with in Phuc Long Province in context of what was happening in the country as a whole.
In 1993 I joined the Special Forces Association, Cleveland Chapter XLV, and I am currently the Secretary of the Cleveland chapter. Some of the former SF troopers in that organization read drafts of this account and helped me to clarify this work (especially the parts relating to operations in Vietnam) prior to the final copy. Their help was greatly appreciated.
In 1994 the Cleveland Chapter of the Special Forces Association (Jim Cole, President) was the host Chapter for the national convention, which was held at the Rockside Holiday Inn. During that convention I met Steve Sherman, also an ex Special Forces trooper, who is compiling a history of Special Forces people and activities. I acquired from him a set of the “Green Beret” a magazine published by the 5th Special Forces in Vietnam from 1966 to 1970. In addition, I re-viewed other material he had that allowed me to expand on the work I had been doing to write this book.
Lastly I have used the National Archives section of the Smithsonian Institute in College Park, Maryland. The military records of that period are now declassified and available for re-search. I have found many reports and references to the military action I was involved with by using this valuable resource. This has probably been the since most important resource to me and I do want to thank the researchers there who were able to dig out the records I needed with the limited information I was able to give them.
Every attempt has been made to accurately state what happened to the team, the camp and me. My original notes were done while recovering from severe wounds in the hospital and at the time there were things I could not remember (there were several weeks were I was in a delirious state and it took many months to get back to close to normal), especially some names of people. Materials I read in 1992 and 1994 brought back some of this loss. Sherman’s work with Special Forces personnel missing in action (MIA) or killed in action (KIA) when compared to the dates and times of some of the battles I knew of gave me a way to place some other names back in. I will state that although everything that I tell about in this book is accurate to the best of my knowledge it is possible that some of the patrol activity is not in the proper time sequence, I don’t think so but it is possible.
This is me in the Jungle in Vietnam in October, 1967
The link below will allow you to download the book, if you want, and at no cost.
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