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Reunion Dates Are Set! Flamingo Hotel & Casino to Host 2012 Reunion
For Information on the September 19 & 20, 2012 Reunion of the 6/27th Artillery - Vietnam!
Download Registration Form & Information in PDF Format
Captain Henry Parker, USA (Ret), President of thee 27th Field Artillery Regiment Association
has announced plans for the 27th FA Reunion for May 2013 at Ft
Bragg, North Carolina with the 3 BN 27th Arty HIMARS. Check
back later this year for more information on exact dates.
Vietnam in the News
After 40 Years, the Complete Pentagon Papers
"It may be a first in the annals of government
secrecy: Declassifying documents to mark the anniversary of their
leak to the press. But that is what will happen Monday, when the
federal government plans to finally release the secret government
study of the Vietnam War known as the Pentagon Papers 40 years after
it was first published by The New York Times.
Read the complete story at The New York Times.com
Read the complete Pentagon Papers at The National Archives New Vietnam Documents & History Now Online As the years go by more and more previously "secret" or "restricted" documents are being made available. As we become aware of them we will make them available to you. Visit the Records Show Doubts on ’64 Vietnam Crisis By ELISABETH BUMILLERWASHINGTON — In an echo of the debates over the discredited intelligence that helped make the case for the war in Iraq, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday released more than 1,100 pages of previously classified Vietnam-era transcripts that show senators of the time sharply questioning whether they had been deceived by the White House and the Pentagon over the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident. Read Article Click Here to download Copies in PDF File
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Historic Quan Loi Vietnam Videos Added to Website
In
1966 Michael Chalifoux, assigned to the 1st Infantry Division, was
only in Quan Loi for a month when his aunt in Pennsylvania
sent him a Super-8 movie camera. Over the next 7+ months Mike
shot film in and around Quan Loi, including the Frenchmen's Swimming
Pool, the airstrip with all types of aircraft, the nearby Montangard
Village, and An Loc to list just a few. His film shows Quan
Loi (L Z Andy) in its early days as an airstrip.
The 40+ minutes of film was copied to DVD. For ease of viewing
on the website the video was edited into six smaller videos.
Mike was interviewed during a Skype call and his comments were added
to the videos. All six videos were uploaded to youtube.com and
then embedded on pages on the website. You can view them all
by
clicking here. Thank you Mike for sharing your film with
us.
OTHER VIETNAM NEWS
Agent Orange cleanup to start at former US base in Vietnam
"HANOI — Vietnam and the United States aim to start cleaning up contamination from Agent Orange at a former wartime US base in the middle of next year, the US embassy said Thursday."
VA Extends 'Agent Orange' Benefits to More
Veterans
Parkinson's Disease, Two Other Illnesses
Recognized
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Relying on an
independent study
by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Eric K.
Shinseki decided to establish a service-connection for Vietnam
Veterans with
three specific illnesses based on the latest evidence of an
association with
the herbicides referred to as Agent Orange.
Read Complete Press Release at Reuters
AND THEN THERE'S THIS:
Vietnam Vets Take Notice -
Here Are Some Interesting Statistics...
In case you haven't been paying attention these past
few decades after you returned from Vietnam, the clock has been
ticking. The following are some statistics that are at once
depressing yet, in a larger sense, should give one a sense of pride.
Many Thanks to Don Albers, former Battery Commander, Alpha Battery,
6/27th Artillery Vietnam - 1969 for sending these statistics to us.
Don received them from friends at West Point Academy. We are not
sure who to attribute this original compilation of statistics to (It
can be found at other sites on the web), but whoever you are -
thanks for doing it. Even if they are a little mind-blowing.
"Of the 2,709,918 Americans who served in Vietnam; less than 850,000
are estimated to be alive today, with the youngest American Vietnam
veteran's age approximated to be 54 years old."
So, if you're alive and reading this, how does it feel to be among
the last 1/3rd of all the U.S. Vets who served in Vietnam? We Don't
know about you, but kinda gives me the chills, considering this is
the kind of information we are used to reading about WWII and Korean
War vets.
Click Here See them All:
The
Saga of the Quan Loi Queen
Chances are, if you were at Quan Loi on November
17-18, 1969, and you had a camera, you took photos of a C-130 that
was hit by a rocket on the Quan Loi Airstrip. I
took several photos as did Jan Maclaga, Dennis Camp, Glen Russell
and Jim McLain of that damaged aircraft. I'm sure there are
many more squirreled away in closets and attics of Quan Loi
Veterans. That battered C-130 was a "curiosity" of the
war. All of us knew that the plane was severely damaged from that
rocket and it would remain on the side of the airstrip for several
months until a crew was finally sent in with a new wing and other
parts to repair her. I doubt that any of us knew that the
twenty-one year old USAF Loadmaster of the Queen, Norm Thomas, was
killed that day from rocket shrapnel. It is time we honor his
memory.
All of us at Quan Loi relied on the crews of the C-130s, C-7A
Caribous and choppers who flew in mail, supplies and provided us
safe transportation. Quan Loi would have been a whole lot
worse without them. Thanks to the pilot of the Quan Loi Queen
that November day, Lou Hari, we can now learn the complete story of
that sad incident and what eventually happened to the Quan Loi
Queen. I think you will find it one of the most interesting
stories to be added to the site.
Click Here to read it.
Who We Are This website was started in October 2002 by John Wavra with much assistance from Jim Hynes and Reed McDonald. It has since grown to what you see on your screen today. It would be but a few pages if not for all of the comrades who helped. I thank each and every one of them for their contributions of photos and/or stories, etc., which have helped to began to tell the story of the 6/27th Artillery in Vietnam. It is long past time that credit is given to all those who helped. See them all at Who We Are. There is still much to tell. Come, join us! Add your photo or name to those listed on the Who We Are Page by sending your memories and stories to me. Email Conjuncti Stamus John Wavra
Quan Loi - August 12, 1969 Ground Attack - A Grunt's Perspective
Thomas Mathis was with the A Troop 1/4 Cav on the night of August
12, 1969. His memory of that night brings a new perspective to
what took place when the NVA attacked Quan Loi that night. It
is worth your time.
Click Here to read his account from the new August 12 Start
Page.
Were you in Quan Loi on August 12-13, 1969?
If your answer is yes, you don't have to be reminded of the ground
attack that was repulsed that night. Many thanks to former
SSGT Robert W. Smith for providing us with a copy of the August 14,
1969 Stars and Stripes. If you would like to learn about that
night or refresh your memory
click here to read it.
If you have a memory, photos or video of the August 12-13, 1969 Quan
Loi ground attack you would like to share with the site, please drop
me an
email. (JWavra)
I was very pleased to recently receive a promotional copy of David Bedard's memoir of his Vietnam service in the Artillery Ballistic Meteorology Unit of the 1st Air Cavalry Division from February 1969 to February 1970. I don't receive many promotional book copies so I was tickled to get this one, but I was even more pleased to see the title, "I Remember Quan Loi - Annus Horribilis - The Horrible Year". David had served his entire Vietnam service tour in one of our "favorite" places - Quan Loi. His unit was located right next to Alpha Btry 6/27th Arty.....(Continued).
Iraq: The Path to War
Can you believe it has been six years since the United States invaded
Iraq, with over
4247
soldiers killed
(as of the date shown above) and
$613 billion later. If you
would like to go back to the beginning and refresh your memory just
how we got there visit npr.org for a fine short historical refresher
course. Visit this link from 2006 and listen to a concise
report titled "Iraq
Three Years Later: The Path to War", by NPR Morning
Edition's Mike Shuster which aired March 20, 2006, the third
anniversary of the war. Discover if what you originally
thought at the beginning still holds true today.
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