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Date: March 02, 2010 at 17:00:05
From: George Nagelschmidt, [rrcs-208-125-219-238.nys.biz.rr.com]
Subject: Re: First day at Camp Carroll, VIETNAM 1967--Bang !!!!!!!!!^^&$^$@


Hi Don; I too was there that night...and even though C-Battery had been on Carroll since the first week of the preceeding December,that was the first time we were attacked. I was among those who happened to be awake when the first three mortars smashed into our immediate battery area, less than 100 feet from the tent I was in. I heard something hitting the top of the tent after the impact...thinking it was probably mud and dirt...but found out next morning in the daylight that what I heard was actually schrapnel passing through the tent...each piece leaving two holes. It was fortunate that we all were sitting down and the chest-high sandbag walls around the tent had been built. That was a very long and scary night, and only the beginning of what was to follow in the months to come. In the Marine compound just to our east a lone Marine was vaporized by a rocket that went into his bunker...he vanished, leaving nothing but smoldering sandbags. Memories of those explosions that night are still welded into my mind too Don. The only thing you missed out on by coming to Carroll in March was all that peanut-butter-like mud we lived in from December through late February. The Dusters were the ONLY vehicles that could still move in that crap when at it's worst, and even they had to extract themselves by doing a last chance escape by turning 90-degrees to their ruts in neutral steer. Just some of our Camp J.J. Carroll memories aey!
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