by Tennessee » Sat Apr 10, 2010 12:19 pm
We did have some overlap. All at LZ Uplift. I did pass through LZ Betty upon return from R&R in late Aug 69, but it really made no impression on me. I have a few minutes of 8mm footage of Betty. Much more of Uplift, the beach, the rurally pacified coastal villages, etc. Also much more of QL 19, which pre-dates you. Jim Shephard has my 8mm and will eventually post some of them. You may see a few familiar scenes in my photos posted.
I do not remember Capt Hagen. Chaney is the last one I came in contact with. I remember George Rodgers very well. Do not have any still pictures, but I hope the ones of him and others will show up in the 8mm Jim selects.
We did not have a "real" platoon leader the whole time I was there. Sgt "Big O" somebody (Oshefsky?) from Sep '68 until he derosed around Thanksgiving, then Sgt James J (Big John) Wiley until about Apr '69, then Sp4 me, then Sgt me, until George Rodgers recognized my stellar scrounging skills & made me B Company's Supply Sergeant about the time I got to be very short. I was probably began doing that soon after you arrived. I do know I was doing that when Neal Armstrong walked on the moon (July 21, 1969) because I remember listening to it from LZ Uplift, not from the field, and that I had not been the Supply Sergeant very long at that point because I was still feeling fortunate to be able to listen to a radio that night.
I do not recognize your face, and notice your pictures post-date me, though I am sure we must at least have passed each other at Uplift. Thanks for jogging my memory.
Reynolds Williams