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Steven Burchik
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April Sail on SF Bay
This is a short video showing a sail on San Francisco Bay on April 1, 2023 during a bright sunny day. This happened after three months of steady rainstorms from atmospheric rivers that drenched the SF Bay Area.
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VIET NAM, 9 Stand Down 1968
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This is a short video that show images of American soldiers in Viet Nam on "Stand Down" days. This was basically a day off from regular patrols when you could rest, read, play cards, play baseball, etc. Field units got one of these every 7 to 10 days, depending on the level of active combat.
New Year's Sailing Cruise
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This is a short video that shows a sailboat cruise on San Francisco Bay during the opening days of 2023.
VIET NAM, 8 Tracks & Wheels 1968
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This video shows a series of vehicles operating on TRACKS or WHEELS that were used to transport American and South Vietnamese soldiers during the Viet Nam conflict.
VIET NAM, 7 Air Support 1968
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This video shows a series of aircraft and helicopters that were used to support and transport American soldiers during the Viet Nam conflict.
VIET NAM, 6 R&R In Vung Tau 1969
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This short video describes a short R&R (Rest & Recreation) visit of 3 days to an In-Country location at Vung Tau, a port in Vietnam on the South China Sea. During the Vietnam War, soldiers were allowed one short In-Country R&R and one week-long R&R to an overseas destination that included Hong Kong, Sydney, Hawaii and Tokyo.
A VET'S VOICE LEE HALVERSON MAR 14 SHOW
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This is an interview with Lee Halverson, a Marine Veteran. It was first broadcast on CCTV in Contra Costa County located in Northern California on March 14, 2022.
VIET NAM, 5-Night Ambush Operations 1968
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This video describes the preparation for a night ambush operation by infantry soldiers with the 1st Infantry Division in Vietnam in 1968.
VIET NAM, 4-Chow In Vietnam 1968
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This video shows images of the CHOW we ate while serving with an Infantry unit in the First Infantry Division in Vietnam. It covers the food in mess halls, mess tents and USO cafes, as well as C-Rations consumed in the field.
VIET NAM, 3-Patrols In Rivers 1968
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This video is a compilation of photos taken during various infantry patrols in Vietnam in 1968. Our Area of Operation included many rivers-some wide and some narrow. Even if our primary mission was to search out Viet Cong positions on relatively dry land, we knew that our feet would be wet within two hours of starting in the morning, due to the necessity of crossing various rivers.
A VET'S VOICE BILL GREEN NOV 8 SHOW
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This is an interview with Army Vietnam Veteran, Bill Green. This clip is called "A VETERAN'S VOICE" and was first broadcast on CCTV in Contra Costa County located in Northern California on November 8, 2021.
VIET NAM, 2-Highway Scenes 1968
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This video contains scenes along a highway in Vietnam in 1968. Most of the images were taken from a truck as it drove our Infantry unit to the drop-off point where we would begin a new patrol.
VIET NAM, 1-Arriving In Country 1968
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This is a short video describing the first days after arriving in Viet Nam and being assigned to the First Infantry Division. It contains many of my photographs from that time which were also the basis of a book "COMPASS AND A CAMERA-A YEAR IN VIET NAM". There are no depictions of live combat.
SAIL TO GG BRIDGE, MAY 25 2021
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This is a short video (17 minutes) of a sailing trip from Emeryville Marina to the Golden Gate Bridge aboard a J30 sailboat.
CHOCOLATE TRUFFLES-HOW TO MAKE
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This is a detailed video that describes how to make a combo batch of 3 different Chocolate Truffles. It is designed for use in the average home kitchen without the need to purchase special ingredients or utensils. The Chocolatier has more than 40 years experience in the Food and Confectionery field, including Hershey, Peter Paul and Cadbury as well as his own entrepreneurial business. While thi...
Steven Burchik-Author Interview-Veterans' Voices
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Steven Burchik-Author Interview-Veterans' Voices
Spent 3 daythere for R&R-stayed at a hotel nearby-maybe across the street-walking distance. Can't remember the name of it.
I was Stationed at Tan Son Nhut from 3/69 to 3/70! I didn't have any money so stayed at the base during my R&R. I know how badly the real Warriors needed a break.
Wow so cool! I'd love to get experience on a boat. I'm in SJ and trying to find a way to get on the water. If you ever need a hand, let me know!
C rations doesn't cone from the 4 Basic food groups and MRE s are meals rejected by Ethiopians LoL. Lrps where ok long range patrol rations. I drove trucks I was lucky 68_69 eating in the Mess Hall the MESS Hall. Lol
Sailing is the best part for retirement! 😊
makes you stop and think if wonder if they all made it - such a waste of life
It's all so complicated. Back in the late '50's and early '60's countries like the Congo were being threatened with communism. Hungary was trying to get out from behind the Soviet Iron Curtain. Korea was threatened with it also - thus the Korean War. So Americans were in favor of a president that would take a stand against it in Southeast Asia. Lyndon Johnson had to become more hawkish so he'd get elected over Barry Goldwater. And Johnson had to give up his "Great Society" plan to help poverty-stricken people. But when American sons start dying, that certainly can change the perspective of those that initially supported the war. Again, so complicated.
I had orders assigning me to the 509 Radio Research org in January, 1971. Arrived at Oakland and awaited a couple of days for my name to be called. Finally it was and at the last moment they offered me VN or Ft. Bliss in El Paso, TX. I took Bliss. it was a miracle.
These are very delicious Belgian chocolates! Mr. Chocolate makes only the best.
Fresh local fruit? Not bloody likely
Thank you for your service. US Army Security Agency - '70-'71
Sometimes i'd put down in the field and await a patrol we put in. The chief would take our c-rats and warm them in the hueys stack. Hated the lima beans and ham. Northflag 229th ahb 1st cav.
Thanks for your service. -US Army Security Agency - '70-71
C- rations almost all the time . No fresh anything right after Tet!
It’s too bad that we have all this money now to give to Ukraine and yet we feed our Soldiers garbage here in Germany, of all places. Unsat!
This chow looks much better than C rations!
Any idea where the photo was taken at mark 2:04 ?
The photo of the truck convoy was taken on a paved highway near Saigon in III Corps. Not sure which highway we were on, but we were not more than 25 miles from Saigon, perhaps closer. The photo was taken in June, 1969. Hope this helps.
@@stevenburchik2472 Thank you and for your service as well much respect !
Saigon - Bien Hoa Highway, near the town of Thu Duc with Portland Cement factory (Xi Mang Ha Tien) in the background.
Where I was stationed in 'Nam in 1968, we would trade 3 bottles of Johnny Walker Red for 5 pounds of fresh ground hamburger. We each got a pound of burger to saver flavored with fresh garlic cloves and oil. Didn't happen often because the fresh burger was so hard to come by.
My units comm equipment had to be picked up in Saigon from the Navy. They gave us steaks for hardware from battlefields. They sure lived well and had stateside food.
Thanks for your service and God bless !
My grandpa was In Vietnam from 1967-68 and was in the tet offensive.
Much respect to all who served in SE Asia. Robert McNamara admitted that he & Johnson grossly exaggerated the Gulf of Tonkin (as in made it up) to the Harvard Alumni in 2011. How/why this did not immediately become one of the biggest scandals in US history was a major push toward helping me see behind the curtain. Honor is real. Valor is real. And all wars are bankers wars. Everything is a rich man’s trick. Everything.
Not sayin much, but thanks, it was always good.
Such a happy happy joy joy time in history. 😆 👍 🇺🇸 LOL
If they'd have let women and gays serve in the infantry, we'd have won Vietnam.
Sign them all up.. next war
I salute all who served
Never had a bad meal in the field.
I got in country Ben hoa January 31st 1968. The night the TET Offensive started
I remember C rats,....dogshit!.....scrambled eggs and ham from 1955!......the beef and pork had the PO BOX as Kennel Ration dog food!....NO BULLSHIT HERE,..... no wonder why no one reinlisted!.....Army food was fucking horrible!
There was also a lot of Kool aid drank because of the bad taste of the drinking water
I've always been fascinated by, attracted to & felt a deep connection to the Vietnam War. I feel as if I've lived a past life that had a significant association with this place & time.
I always had this vision that I was meant to have died in a battle in Vietnam, and not some heroic death or even meaningful death, but just a cannon-fodder death taking a patch of land. I was born during the war, so it's like you said, a past life or something.
Вот и у меня такое же чувство возникало лет 20 назад.
Note that it was a time of confusion at every level. For instance in Vietnam, the type of country varied from rain forest to monsoon forest to agricultural land to savanna to mangroves. Each had it's only set of difficulties when it came to conflict. Another problem we see years after the war was soldiers were assigned to duty in VN for a year at a time. But unlike WWII, did not go over as a group and return as a group. Instead, they all had separate end-dates and returned to the US alone with no celebration. As for the management of the war, the statisticions under Robert McNamara under Lyndon B. Johnson, requested metrics about the wars progress. Unbelievably, this amounted to 14,000 pages of paper per day, which nobody could keep up with. That's why body count because the most desired mentric. -US Army Security Agency - 1970-1971.
23rd Americal 69/70.
Army fed us well. Grateful for that!!
not where i was c-rats for months all day every day , cool aid . fake eggs stale bread , chu lia 1966 powdered milk
The Royal Australian Air Force flew Caibou transports,Huey and Sioux Helicopters,and Canberra bombers from 1964 to 1971 supporting the Australian task force and allied forces
Hope all the boys in those pics made it back and lived happy lives. God bless all that served in Nam.
@Mike Raffphone How did you know.
I ate c-rations for 11 1/2 months. '68-'69
Same here 7 months 23 days of mostly C rations
My father entered France at Normandy beach ,fought through St Lo then got terribly wounded at Metz . Along with his PTSD he always wanted good light when he ate . I guess too many rations in holes in the ground in the dark .
@Mike Raffphone possible
Wow! That is awesome about your father. How proud you must be. My father was an Airplane Mechanic in WWII and could work on any plane the Army Air Corps had, as well as being an instructor for other mechanics.
@@ninemilliondollars Thank you I am very proud like you seem to be of your father . And after all the horror he saw he finished his life as a hard working gentle father .
My brother David went to Nam in 68 marine Corp never been the same don't know what happened he won't talk about it lost some friends there love the USA
My brother, also a Marine, served in '67 in Vietnam. He never talked about it.
I served on Submarines in the early 70's. You didn't mess with the cooks or mess cooks. They worked there asses off in a small galley, that was hot, wet decks and never enough time. It was nice to work in radio with the cool temperature and no one to bother you, until family grams arrived. As a junior sailor, I mess cooked from 5 am to 6:30 pm. Then you have a few hours to qualify and sleep before the messenger woke your ass up. The people who work in food service knows how important your meal, however small it may be, is good for moral and a 15 minute break. Darn where is my P-38
Real hamburger buns in the mess hall. Living large.
Nice mess halls. I was in an infantry unit near Phan Thiet and we had a two-man mess hall at our forward radio relay--dehydrated milk and eggs but it beat C Rations
One🕯for all this officers, subofficers,and soldiers, pilots and marine soldiers how never came to home and lies somewhere in the Jungles of the Nam,even to DAY! R.I.P🪖❤👏🏻🇬🇷
I'm happy to see this.
And don't forget leaving on -forget exact name-- flying Tiger Airlines (?) I served in Nha Trang 1969 to 1970 in 313th RR Bn. Most photos I threw away many years ago hoping to forget and now can only see many images in my mind. One will never forget that year and occasionally it returns so I must experience it again. AND release sad memories and cry. Alone. We must record our thoughts in these places to let others know WE SHOULD NEVER FORGET ABOUT VIETNAM AND NOT HAVE ANOTHER WAR LIKE IT. BUT, not to forget Afghanistan for those 20 years including those who served, their severe injuries, and THEY MUST ENDURE FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES FOR SACRIFICING THEIR LIVES. THEY WERE TREATED similarly to those of us who served in Vietnam except many of us were drafted (myself too.) Afghanistan veterans volunteered. I would NOT CONSIDER ENLISTING IN THE MILITARY TODAY (if younger.)
James, my wife's dad was in nha trang in the 313th RR starting 1970. Is there a way I can contact you? trying to learn. Found papers, photos, AFVN recordings when they tore down his parents house recently
@@RickBaconsAdventures you may but realize most of my photos I got rid of to try to forget--guess what it did not help. BUT send me an email so I can go to the various sites I know of from those who did save photos etc, as there is a great deal of info available from the 313th and other related units. And I will email them to you. Use my email you have here--most of the extensive info on my laptop using another email. But I will get this done. And I have 10 Vietnam ERA books that I have loaned to a veteran. One of them is a 2nd or 3rd edition on listing several pages on the 313th plus. Very good documentation. Let's get this done. Insignias etc are there too. You will be as pleased as I to find these resources. I do not know where you live but I am in denver CO. I CAN GET THINGS TO YOU. ND I have Vietnam veterans of America books listing more contacts, etc even dated as it is. Looking forward to sending these things to you asap.
@@jamescarlson6723 I keep trying to give you my email address but the comment keeps getting removed
@@RickBaconsAdventures I do not know unless if you get out of this page and into your own email (separate from this forum or venue if that makes sense) to send the info there. Like if you have a yahoo, Gmail account in your name. I too occasionally have problems tying to leave messages to others like yourself at times in this area and receive messages they were not sent. Not sure. Hope this helps.
They deserved t-bone steaks!God bless.
Never seen a steak while there.
my father did 3' tours in south east asia ( the nam to those that were their) he once told me & my brothers cook outs at his firebase because army chow wasn't always a good thing he was an E-6' with the 5'th SFG and he didn't really talk a lot about the conflict but he always said that even in all the bad things that their are some good
I warning army ROTC in college in 1980 and the LTC was 5th SFG as was the master sergeant in chaege of training. The sergeant was also combst diver. With his bubble head badge and member of MACV-SOG certificate. The sergeant major was 7th SFG (red flash). Both the LTC and the MSG 5th SFG had several tours in Nam.
My unit worked with numerous SF camps and I can attest that those SF guys ate pretty darn good compared to those of us in the jungle. Saying that ,the army fed us well when in a secure area imo. Unfortunately those times weren’t very often but man they were great when they did occur. More then once they would fly steaks and beer ( along with the grills) out for a awesome cookout normally on the beach areas where the nva liked to come into the cities
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This is bullshit! I severed in the 173rd Airborne Brigade in 67 and 68 and we ate C rations. One meal a day.
1 meal a day? In the field? You didn't get 3 meals a day?
No, we got 12 C rations. We threw away what no one wanted to reduce weight. We ate one meal in the evening after setting up our perimeter. I would several f.old items together heat it and then ate it. In the rear while they sold everything to make money. On their paper work we got 3 meals a day. We started out early morning stops out early sunset to settle in before we ate. We did eat on the move.
Best food in the world
I never served, but was involved as a teacher, mentor to those returning veterans of Vietnam. This was college. My commission was through the federal government. Now, as a tutor to veterans using their G.I. Bill to go to college, why should I have had to wear two hats? I resented being pinned to the ground called a gook, strangled. Yet, I kept saying, I’m not Your Enemy. The movement started in California was.