Jeff Daley Milestone Birthday remembering when - The events during the year of my birth in 1946 are interesting, to say the least. It is interesting to compare the happenings of today to those that took placed when I came into this world. Milestone Birthday - A Nostalgic Look of 1946 1946 World News Micheline [...]
Vindication Vietnam Veterans article is written by Resa LaRu Kirkland, a woman that was a child when the Vietnam War occurred but was able to capture the heart, and emotions of those veterans that fought in this war. As a member of that combat group, I was amazed that without the personal experiences she was able [...]
Jeff Daley Vietnam war Saigon: Immediately after I was told we had orders for Vietnam we went to medical for a bevy of shots, then packed and waited for orders. Vietnam War Saigon After leaving Germany we were flown to Saigon (now known as Ho Chi Minh City) and landed at the Tân [...]
Vietnam by way of Bad Tolz, Germany It was an overcast day and the temperature was in the low forties. I was thinking it would be another great day in Bad Tolz because duty here was almost storybook in nature, it was Sunday and I was to have the afternoon off. Bad Tolz, Germany [...]
VA HealthCare Treatment | Continuity of Care is AWOl - URGENT: Some may have noticed I have not been around for a while. By the title of this article, you probably already guessed why. URGENT: VA HealthCare A strange thing happened to me while in CA celebrating my grandson’s seventh birthday. During our [...]
Vietnam War: He earned the Medal of Honor, died - Few Noticed. You're a 19 year old kid. You are critically wounded and dying in the jungle somewhere in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam . It's November 11, 1967. LZ (landing zone) X-ray. Your unit is outnumbered 8-1 and the enemy fire is so [...]
In the Jungles of Vietnam Special Forces Part 5 - During the Vietnam Era - Nam Dong, Lang Vei, Dak To, A Shau, Plei Mei – these were just some of the places SF troops fought and died during their 15-year stay in South Vietnam. A mission began in June 1957, when the original 16 [...]
Special Forces - The Green Beret Special Forces (SF) was designed in 1953 by Major Herbert Brucker, a veteran of the OSS. First Lieutenant Roger Pezelle adopted it as the unofficial headgear for his A-team, Operational Detachment FA32. They wore it whenever they went to the field for prolonged exercises. Soon it spread throughout [...]
The Early Years of Special Forces Special Forces Part 2 - The Early Years - Special Forces (SF) grew out of the establishment of the Special Operations Division of the Psychological Warfare Center, activated at Fort Bragg, N.C., in May 1952. The Army allocated 2,300 personnel slots to make up the first Special Forces (SF) [...]
Special Operations Group Combat Patch Vietnam Special Forces military trained to perform unconventional, high-risk missions Special Forces Part 1 - From Birth to Present Day - The first Special Forces groups originated from an elite combined Canadian-American unit that fought in the Aleutians, Italy, and southern France. It was nicknamed the Devils [...]