Sexo

Male

Birth date

1940-7-19

Local de nascimento

Honolulu HI, U.S.A.

Inducted

1905-5-18, USNR; Transferred

Tipo de alistamento

Volunteer

Ramo das Forças Armadas

Army

Tipo de serviço

War

Tipo de Unidade

Support

Unidades onde serviu

1. 4th Infantry Div. 2. 1st Log Cmd 3. 63rd ARCOM 4. MTMC-WA

Military specialty

Personnel/ Administration - Deputy director reserve personnel - Military Traffic Management Command - Western Area (Desert Shield/Desert Storm)

Stationed

U.S.A., Viet-nam (6/67 - 2/69)

Unit responsibility

Logistics

Personal responsibility

Personnel & admin; additional duty - competitive pistol shooter, 63D ARCOMT, 6 USAR teams.

Major battles (if served in a war zone)

Battle of TET '68 RVN

Awards, medals, citations (individual or unit)

Unit: Fourth Division - Unit Citation for Repulsing TET Offensive. Personal: Meritorious Service Medal, Army Commendation Medal, Joint Services Achievement Medal, Good Conduct Medal, National Defense Medal - second award, Army Reserve Medal, Vietnam Service Medals (six campaigns), Expert Pistol Medal, Sharpshooter Rifle Medal, First Award Excellence in Competition Pistol Medal.

Living conditions

Slept in wooden barracks from basic through AIT; Hard (concrete) barracks OCS through various schooling; tents & wooden barracks in RVN except when on patrols. Bathing usually hot showers, no bathing facilities on patrol. Alll hot meals, even C-rations. Best meals were L.R.R.P. Rations, worse are M.R.E. RVN Entertainment; Occasional TV, Movies, reading, following tiger, killing water buffalo, popping mosquitos.

Most vivid memory of military experience

Watching my point man go upstream on a slow-moving creek, re-assuring me that he would cross with no problems, slipping underwater; his hat floating by; reaching under his hat and pulling him out with his 80-lb. pack but no rifle.

Missed most whilst in the military

Hot sticky rice, kim chee, poi, lomi salmon, portugese sausage, manapua (char siu bao), miso shiru, miso pork, kalua pig.

Most important thing, personally, to come from military experience?

1. Getting along in a multi-cultural setting and developing team work on an ad hoc basis. 2. Learning to like potato, chipped beef on toast, biscuits and gravy, deep fried catfish, grits. 3. For both myself and my family, lessons learned most is to strive for excellence in any environment on a benign mode.

Additional information

No matter how long I live on the mainland, I believe that culinary hedonism & comraderie has an edge over status-acquiring.