Greetings from Tennessee USA !!

[MORTARDUDE]

Just wanted to say thanks to all British Vets past and present !! I have relatives with name Willoughby and Nuckolls...would like to hear from any on board. I was an 81MM mortar crewman in Vietnam. Co. B 2/22(M) 25th Infantry Division, Nov 1969 - Nov 1970, Vietnam and Cambodia. Would like to hear from any mortar types here. Keep up the good work ! You are all much appreciated in the USA !!

Larry Nuckolls
Bartlett, TN. ( near Memphis )

[harry hackedoff]

Don`t take any notice of him, Larry and welcome aboard.
You couldn`t give us a hand with these sandbags, could you, mate?
And mind yer head on that lamp. Tricky Dicky told me "We have no combat troops in Cambodia" Were you there on holliday
Good luck, Larry
Aye

[Andy O'Pray]

Hi MORTARDUDE,

Welcome to the site. I suppose I am the resident mad master mortarman. We also have Derek Blevins, but he left us when they were still known as siege weapons to become an MFC in the sky.

Aye - Andy.

[MORTARDUDE]

I was in the Cambodian Invasion...er Incursion... from May 5 to June 30 1970. Real change from Vietnam. Charging thru basecamps in M113 APCs behind the old Ma Deuce ( .50 Cal. MG )....it was real weird ! I also was assigned to 4.2" mortars at Ft. Hood for my last 6 months in the Army. What size mortars does you Army have ?

Larry

[El Prez]

Andy didn't have 'Mortars' as such, they were an improved form of the Roman rock hurler, at 81mm they were tiny but effective. lasted approximately 30 'Hurls' before the elastic needed to be changed.

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[USARMY_]

Howdy Mortardude! Great to see not only another American on here but a Vet. My Dad is also a Vietnam Vet, he was assigned (Phu Bai) to the 8th Radio Research Unit, 53d US Army Security Agency Special Operations. And just so you know there are some of us youngin's who know and appreciate what you guys did. Thanks for your service. :usa

[Gearjammer351]

Hello Mortardude.I would like to welcome you as a fellow American and Mortarman.I am living in the UK now,and found this site accidentally while looking for information about Britain before I moved,but there are a great bunch of guys on here.
I was at Ft. Hood myself,first with 4.2's and transitioning to the 120mm shortly before I left.

[MORTARDUDE]

Hello Gearjammer :

When were you at Ft. Hood ? I was there from Dec 1970 - May 1971. It was a bad scene. All the returning troops from 'Nam had a real bad attitude. Plus they had just started with the drinking in the barracks is OK stuff. The weekends were way out of control. I was in HHC 1/41 2nd Armored Division. I loved wearing the patch over the heart thanks to Patton. I didn't know we had 120MM mortars ?! I didn't care fo the 4.2". Too much like artillery. 81MM was more up close and personal. My Dad was with the 43rd Infantry in the Pacific in WW2 and was in the heavy weapons platoon with the 60MM mortars. He was also drafted as I was. Take care.

Larry Nuckolls
Bartlett, TN.
USA

[MORTARDUDE]

how do you add them to your postings ??? Thanks.

Larry

[Gearjammer351]

I think I may be a wee bit younger than you .I was at Ft. Hood from '96 to '99.We transitioned to the 120mm in '99.It is an Israeli designed weapon,smoothbore,much like a scaled-up 81.
I was in HHC 3/8 Cav Ist Cav division.My father was in 2AD in the 70's but he was a tanker-M60 A1 and also the ill fated M60 A2.My uncle was in the 1/41 mech infantry 2AD from about '74-'77.
My grandfather was in the Pacific also,he was already in the army when the war began,he was in the Phillipines with the 31st infantry reg. and was taken prisoner at Bataan-spent three and a half years in a prison camp in Japan

[MORTARDUDE]

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[TexasRanger]

My father was army infantry in Nam. 4th div. cacti regiment. 9 months into his first tour he had his nipples blown off (well, not entirely but he still looks rather odd withhis shirt off). 1 year after that as a NCO he was shot in the neck. He woke up in Japan 2 days later and that was the end of his military career with the Army.
My grand father was a pilot in Europe and the pacific during WWII. He was shot down somewhere in the pacific one night and was not rescued for 24 hours. Nothing quite as horrible as spending 3 years in a Japanese POW camp. My hats off to your father.
My great grand father was Colonel in WWI. Dont know much about him though.

The jewel of my family- My great great great Grandfather is Nathan Bedford Forrest. He was a southern cavalry general who held the civil war record for horses shot out from under him in battle. He was also the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan- which had little to do with racism at the time, it started as more of a post war fraternity. In the movie Forest Gump (notice only one R in the movie surname), gump says that Nathan Forrest was his grand father. That would make Forrest gump and me cousins. Oh well. During the 30,s Erwin Rommel was somewhat obsessed with N.B. Forrest because of his cavalry tactics. In an alleged visit of Southern battlefields Rommel supposedly showed up at the family house in Mississippi and offered my great grand monther a very large amount of money for N.B.F.'s saddle. The saddle was later donated to a mueseum.

www.nbforrest.org

This site is a great read. I reccomend it to any military enthusyist

[Mike]

Holy Shit....Is this a colonial history lesson or what.. ... Jay giv'em an Icon at the bottom of the page and lets get done with it!....


Evening all and welcome to all those who need welcoming!