Log Cabin in the wilderness

[LiLWaynE]

one of the greatest threads a human being ever took the time to write up here on the whole world wide interwebz

 

[TranceAddictT7]

Truly inspirational thread. Thank you for posting. I hope all is well.

 

[Meloniasty]

this looks so amazing

 

[LiLWaynE]

doublejj = the man!


thank you very much for taking the time to type each and every letter that you type for us all to view!

 

[TheBlackman]

yo
great inspiration you all have goin on in here
be diggin some peace & quiet all the time myself
too much hussle and bussle workin for the man and not enough time appreciating nature and one another

 

[IGROWMYOWN]

Great thread djj baja bugs not the same anymore

 

[doublejj]

All is well

All is well

I haven't been on for a while & was surprised to see this thread still here.
Thanks for all the well wishes my friends, you know it's mutual.
I have been involved in a bunch of new things & I promise I'll post some new stuff.
I was floored the other day when my niece posted this picture on her facebook page. I have no idea how she found this, I thought all those pictures were long gone.
This was yours truly in 1969.....next stop Vietnam.

 

[SneekyFarmer]

Nice to see this thread again, and the man who wrote so many cool things online again! Good to see you online again double jj.. Hope life is treating you well bro!

 

[MJBadger]

Real nice to see you back . You been holed up in some Mexican hotel with a young lady ?

 

[Hank Hemp]

I bet that pic was taken at a reception station, Ord maybe? 4 months later you went to the Nam. Right?

 

[doublejj]

I bet that pic was taken at a reception station, Ord maybe? 4 months later you went to the Nam. Right?

Bingo, Ft Ord!....Yes, then I went to Ft Sam Houston in Texas for 12 weeks Medic training & then 1 week leave at home......off to the Nam......

 

[944s2]

Bingo, Ft Ord!....Yes, then I went to Ft Sam Houston in Texas for 12 weeks Medic training & then 1 week leave at home......off to the Nam......

so very nice to hear that your well,,jj,,,,
saw your pic,,,memories eh!,,
hoping our winter was ok and you and yours are all in fine fettle,

pretty warm over here in Essex,uk,,,
keep safe and well mate,,,944s2

 

[doublejj]

Band of Brothers

Band of Brothers

I held a pig roast a couple of months ago. Invited some friends. There are 7 combat veterans in this picture.......band of brothers.....

 

[Hank Hemp]

I was Knox, L. Wood one week leave then the 25th Inf. Got put in the infantry after 2 weeks of incountry training. Good old 11B10. Know what the B stood for? Bulletstopper. LOL
Tell me was the dog first in line?

 

[doublejj]

Pig Roast

Pig Roast

A few more pig roast pictures. I built this portable pig roaster from items from Home Depot. Haul it out to the lake in my pick-up. Sets up in about 1/2 hr. Cooks a whole pig in 5-6 hrs. Everybody & their dog had a good time.......

 

[doublejj]

68Whisky!........

68Whisky!........

I was Knox, L. Wood one week leave then the 25th Inf. Got put in the infantry after 2 weeks of incountry training. Good old 11B10. Know what the B stood for? Bulletstopper. LOL
Tell me was the dog first in line?

Welcome home brother............I was 68W Medic, 9th infantry....everybody called me "Doc"..... I patched up quite a few 11Bravos, you got any VC ventilation holes?
I tell people that I had many men breath their last breath in my face in Nam, unfortunately many were ours....

 

[Hank Hemp]

Not one goddamn scratch in 10 months. That's with every swinging dick in my squad hit one afternoon. Just me left to bag up the wasted.
They called me shooter.
We're sweeping a ville south of Trang Bang. I ain't been in the field a month. I'm told to go behind the hooches in case somebody runs. I get there and me and mamma san spy each other about the same time. She's stuffing ammo and grenades into her pajama top. She takes off with me chasing her with a full pack on. She reaches the road and I start hollering shoot her, shoot her. She makes the paddies on the other side of the road, I drop down to one knee and put a round in her back. The Plt. leader runs up screaming check your fire, check your fire. Hits me up side the head and threatens to have me charged. I walk over to the VC, flip her over and all the ammo falls out. The Lt. looks down and says good shot. So from then on my nickname is Shooter. The FNG's thought I was a bad ass. Everybody that was there would just laugh. Oh well, just another day in the Nam.

 

[Hank Hemp]

You said you were in the 9th ID? Ever work out of Tay Ninh?

 

[doublejj]

I was assigned to the 9th's field hospital at Dong Tam, but would get assigned to which ever battalion was short on field medics. Not all medics went into the field, many were assigned to field hospitals & clinics. No such luck for me! I spent a lot of time living on Navy barracks ships in the Mekong Delta. Mobile Riverine Force, Brown Water Navy. Went on many operations in the Rung Stat Special Zone, an area of flooded mangrove swamps, infested with VC in the river delta. The Vietnamese had a name for the Rung Stat, "Forrest of Assassins".....We would spend 3 day patrols in there and never get out of ankle deep water. Hell of a place to fight...."Don't mean nothing"......

 

[doublejj]

9th Infantry

9th Infantry

9th id in Vietnam..........https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=p1DOSDcWAGY