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RE: Travels With Cleo-The Gunner Chronicle Continues
Great post @bigtom13, I wasn't around, but I can imagine it was a very tense period. My dad wanted to join the Air Force, but his eyes prevented it, so like you he joined the Navy instead. He ended up in Viet Nam and although he wasn't in the jungles everyday like my father in law who was in the Army, the bases he was at got shelled regularly.
There was no safe spot in country. None. Every place was liable to get mortared with regularity. No real rear area.
It was a scary time.