He told me a story

[HeelSpur]

Several years back I was talking to a Vietnam veteran and he told me an interesting story. He was a platoon leader and one of his men was having an extremely difficult time being away from his family. It took some convincing, but the Lt. gave him R&R, but he could not go any further than the Philippines.
The soldier took his R&R and when he returned he was worse off than before, so the platoon leader ask how is R&R went. The soldier broke down and told him that instead of going to the Philippines he caught a flight to Hawaii and another stateside. He had to see his wife so he went home to surprize her, but when he entered the house he heard a commotion in the bedroom.
He entered the room and found his wife with another man. He tells the platoon leader that he killed both of them and returned back to Nam w/o being seen.
This is suppose to be true and I wonder how many times this happened during wartime.

[Bearfootfarm]

Did this conversation take place in a bar?

[JuliaAnn]

I'm sure there are more unknown, unsolved murders out there than we realize.

Just the other day I posted something down in the Current Events board about Mexican drug cartels growing pot in the national forest not too far away. The crop was discovered and eradicated, the value set at 4 million dollars. Now tell me if someone was hiking through the forest, having a nice day communing with mother nature and came across a bunch of Mexican drug cartel people tending their crop---does anyone really think that person would get out of there alive? Does anyone think the cartel growers would risk losing 4 million dollars? All the pot growers would have to do is attack you, bash out your brains and bury you deep, deep, deep. I bet there are bodies buried all over the place, and no one will ever know.

[salmonslayer]

I guess the little problem that to fly a commercial flight required a passport which Soldiers in combat zones dont typically have and that to get back in country you have to have orders shouldnt get in the way of a good war story by a drunk at a bar.

Soldiers flying in and out of Vietnam or most other combat zones fly chartered commercial flights with orders and its tightly controlled. To fly commercial you have to have a passport and possibly a VISA depending on the country. Joe citizen couldnt just fly to Vietnam during the war without DOD clearance and military members would have to have orders.

Your friend is telling tall tales.

One time I did something. I won't be able to talk about it until at least 1976 though.

[HeelSpur]

Originally Posted by salmonslayer

I guess the little problem that to fly a commercial flight required a passport which Soldiers in combat zones dont typically have and that to get back in country you have to have orders shouldnt get in the way of a good war story by a drunk at a bar.

Soldiers flying in and out of Vietnam or most other combat zones fly chartered commercial flights with orders and its tightly controlled. To fly commercial you have to have a passport and possibly a VISA depending on the country. Joe citizen couldnt just fly to Vietnam during the war without DOD clearance and military members would have to have orders.

Your friend is telling tall tales.

Probably so. I know I use to use military flights to travel to my destinations to save money. It was free, but not very comfortable. And neither one of us drink, but that doesn't mean its not a tale. So basically my title is correct, "He told me a story".

[copperkid3]

Originally Posted by zong

One time I did something. I won't be able to talk about it until at least 1976 though.

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It's been 35 years since that date......it's time to tell us what you did.

Originally Posted by copperkid3

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It's been 35 years since that date......it's time to tell us what you did.

Well, it involves a girl named LouAnn, the South Drive-in, a 1969 AMC Javelin, some beer and..... you know what came next.

[Farmerwilly2]

popcorn-----gotta have popcorn with beer at the movies. Buttered or plain?

[tinknal]

Originally Posted by salmonslayer

I guess the little problem that to fly a commercial flight required a passport which Soldiers in combat zones dont typically have and that to get back in country you have to have orders shouldnt get in the way of a good war story by a drunk at a bar.

Soldiers flying in and out of Vietnam or most other combat zones fly chartered commercial flights with orders and its tightly controlled. To fly commercial you have to have a passport and possibly a VISA depending on the country. Joe citizen couldnt just fly to Vietnam during the war without DOD clearance and military members would have to have orders.

Your friend is telling tall tales.

Wasn't the Philippines a US Territory at that time? As far fetched as the story is I could see it happening. At that day and time security wasn't what it is now.

[Ed Norman]

Originally Posted by tinknal

Wasn't the Philippines a US Territory at that time? As far fetched as the story is I could see it happening. At that day and time security wasn't what it is now.

No. 1946.

[Just Cliff]

Originally Posted by zong

Well, it involves a girl named LouAnn, the South Drive-in, a 1969 AMC Javelin, some beer and..... you know what came next.

You had a 69' Javlin?? Sweet car. I wanted one of those as a teenageer, heck, I want one now.

[salmonslayer]

Originally Posted by tinknal

Wasn't the Philippines a US Territory at that time? As far fetched as the story is I could see it happening. At that day and time security wasn't what it is now.

I was stationed at Subic Bay back in the 70s when I was in the Marine Corps and at that time we flew MAC or Flying Tigers charters into Clark AFB. But if you flew commercial you had to have either military orders (leave papers) or a passport so you could fly in and out of the PI with just leave papers and a military ID. But you couldnt fly to Viet Nam commercially like that.

During the Viet Nam and for about a decade after war the PI was under the military dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos who was being paid off by the US and it was a very surreal experience. If you were a US military member it was pretty much anything goes and Marcos' military and police mostly left you alone but they were very harsh to their own people who got out of line.

Obviously as a teenager getting a paycheck from Uncle Sam I had a great time and I suspect my secrets would rival Zongs!!