Forum: Memoirs of a Trooper

Ok, here's a short story (pauses to let cheering subside...) Perhaps one of you may have met him in Viet Nam with the 1st Inf Div. Easton J. Ardoin, pride of Ville Platte in Evangeline Parish, Louisiana, enlisted the first time on his 13th...

We were a rag tag bunch of soldiers..... preparing for the Battle of Kipapa Gulch. Our uniforms and equipment were somewhat lacking. Our TOE was comprised of whatever we could scrounge from the trash cans and repair depots of Schoffield...

While cleaning out some Nam era boxes, I came across this poem. It was written by one squared away CO, Cpt David H. Campbell, Romeo 6. I must have gotten something in my eyes, they got watery while reading this again after all these years...

Watching the chaos and tragedy in Haiti on the news. I spent a couple months in Haiti in 94. Not bad: didn't get shot at, but broke up a lot of machete fights. I remember the day we flew in (10th Mountain), we were setting up at the Port au...

written by a friend of mine here in Massachussetts. Just wanted to share it.... ****************************************************** Something very few people here know about me is that I served as a Military Journalist covering actions in...

I was traveling on the mental time machine (riding the way-back bus, so to speak) and had a fond recollection: The first weapon assigned to me by the US Army was an M-1 Garand! It came out of a crate from the Arms Room, coated in Cosmolene,...

Head east from Carthage on Mississippi 16 toward Philadelphia and after a few miles a sign says you're in Edinburg. Its a good thing the signs there, because there is no other way to tell. On June 15, 1919, Van T. Barfoot was born in Edinburg....

"If I don't get her another beer she's going to stab me in the face!"

Woman Receives Heart From Soldier Killed In War A Minnesota soldier killed in Afghanistan is living on in other ways. Army Ranger Corporal Ben Kopp was mortally wounded during a fight with the Taliban. At his funeral in Rosemount, Corporal...

Back in Vietnam we used to go out in the bush for anywhere from 7 to 21 days on a mission. When you got back to the firebase on standown, they would let you do anything you want! They gave us free beer and steaks, and you could trade a pack...