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Jack Jeter posted an update: 2 weeks, 3 days ago · View
Dear B Company 2/7th Cav Veterans—
We are excited to once again be hosting a B Company 2/7th Cav reunion this coming November!
We have contacted numerous local hotels that are convenient to the Reagan National Airport, a metro stop, good restaurants, and Washington DC.
We found the best deal of $99/night at the Marriott Crystal Gateway, 1700 Jefferson Davis Highway Arlington, Virginia 22202.
To ensure this rate, rooms must be reserved ON YOUR CREDIT CARD no later than October 19, 2012. The $99/night rate is available for the evening of 10 and 11 November.
When calling, please mention that you are part of the “B Company Reunion” in order to ensure the $99/night rate. Reservations can be made by calling 703-920-3230.
This hotel is beautiful, a very short taxi ride from Reagan National Airport, and within walking distance to the metro and several restaurants and shops in Crystal City.
Follow this link to view the hotel: http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/wasgw-crystal-gateway-marriott/.
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This year, Veteran’s Day falls on Sunday, 11 November. Our planned itinerary is as follows:
Saturday, 10 November: B Company veterans arrive!
Daytime activities on your own with fellow B Company veterans.
Registration room open from 2 PM on within the hotel (exact location forthcoming).
6:00pm B Company Reunion Cocktail hour.
7:00pm OPENING NIGHT B COMPANY REUNION DINNER BUFFET hosted in the Hotel Sky View Terrace by Outlaw 6 and Jill McCaffrey.
Sunday, 11 November:
11:00am Round Trip bus departure from Hotel (provided by Outlaw 6) to Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, DC. Bus will wait during the Ceremony and return us to Hotel. NO HOST Boxed Lunches to be available from Hotel. (price still TBD).
1:00pm – 3:00pm Vietnam Veteran’s Day Ceremony at The Wall – VIP reserved seating for B Company. We will be recognized from the podium!
6:00pm – NO HOST a la carte dinner at hotel restaurant for B Company Reunion attendees.
Monday, 12 November:
INFORMAL B Company NO HOST REUNION BREAKFAST AT HOTEL.
Self-checkout your credit card.
B Company departs!
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Please feel free to contact Melissa Henson Kalinosky at any time with any questions or concerns.
Melissa can be reached at 703-519-1250 (office) or 703-505-0949 (cell)— and additionally via email at melissa.henson@mccaffreyassociates.com.
Our mailing address is:
BR McCaffrey Associates LLC
211 N. Union Street
Suite 100
Alexandria, VA 22314
We hope you can all attend, and look forward to seeing you all November !
RESERVE YOUR ROOMS AT THE HOTEL AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE! WE GOT A GREAT PRICE— AT A GREAT LOCATION.
HOPE EVERYONE CAN BRING YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS! November is a perfect time to sightsee in the nation’s Capital.
Best wishes,
Melissa Henson Kalinosky
Executive Assistant
BR McCaffrey Associates, LLC
211 N. Union Street, Suite 100
Alexandria, VA 22314
703-519-1250 phone
703-505-0949 mobile
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Steve Mros posted an update: 1 month, 2 weeks ago · View
Any word yet on a Veterans Day reunion in DC?
I think everyone is waiting on someone else to get it started? 2010 was such a bust I’m not sure anyone would come even if we did have one in 2012. Who all’s interested? I’ll be more than happy to get it started if anyone want’s to go.
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Hanyaks Nephew posted an update: 1 month, 2 weeks ago · View
Welcome Home Viet Nam Vets Day. Hope yas all had a good one.
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bill fearon posted an update: 1 month, 3 weeks ago · View
Hello and Welcom Home
I servd in the ”3rd herd” from jan 68 thru dec 68. anyone from that time please contact me
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bill fearon became a registered member 1 month, 3 weeks ago · View
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Jack Jeter posted an update: 2 months, 1 week ago · View
Happy 12th March. Exactly 43 years ago my combat tour ended! Thank God that was the only thing that ended for me that day.
And you didn’t stop by 36th Evac in Vung Tau to say goodbye to me?
Vung Tau……what the hell were you doing over there? I would have loved to stop by and say good bye but my left knee cap wasn’t in any shape to be walking on! Were you wounded too during that period?
Now you’ve got me all cornfused (it’s the dementia).
I don’t exactly remember where I was evac’ed, but I went somewhere to get the hole in my arm closed up. I’m not going to dig out my old letters to figure it out right now.
I do remember pushing Eckel around in a wheelchair (he was not in a good mood) since I was ambulatory, and it was the only hospital I stayed that made me make my own bed. Beautiful round-eyed nurses (fog of war?) – I’ve thought about trying to finagle an invite to one of their reunions, but sometimes old pleasant memories should not be messed with.
In my case, after about a week, I was transferred to Long Binh for rehab until the sham police finally caught up to me and returned me to the field in late April.
Anyway, I’m just trying to get you to explain a little more about why your combat duties came to such an abrupt end 43 years ago.this week
Vung Tau today:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ha_Long_Road_in_Vungtau.jpg
(Anyway, I’m just trying to get you to explain a little more about why your combat duties came to such an abrupt end 43 years ago.this week)
Because I was wounded on the 12th,same day as Eck. They operated on both of us at the 24th evac,LongBinh Air Base. After four day there I was sent to Japan and I don’t know where Eck went to. I figured he would go home to as bad as he was wounded?
Were you wounded on the 12th? That was the day Luke the Gook was killed and Mejia got his foot blown to shreads.
I think I need to call you……to see how confused you really are?I just realized – it’s not dementia or fog-of-war, it was the morphine.
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steve petty posted an update: 2 months, 1 week ago · View
To Roger Lutz. To answer your question as to who went out to get the guy from Alpha company,it was me,Steve Petty and Jim Leonard. We both got an Army commendation medal for our efforts. Did you get a medal also? I was in B company ,3rd platoon and was in the firefight at LZ Bille also. I remember being pinned down snipers in trees. That was my first firefight.
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Roger Lutz (Doc Lutz) posted an update: 2 months, 1 week ago · View
Another Article regarding the 2-7 in regards to Bravo Co by Steve Banko..
For the besieged 7th Cavalry troopers at the landing zone they would call ”Bitch,” it looked like the Little Bighorn all over again. By Stephen T. Banko, III
The 1st Air Cavalry Division (Airmobile) was the first U.S. Army division to be deployed to Vietnam, and it fought the first major engagement of the war, the November 1965 battle of the Ia Drang in II Corps in the Central Highlands. In early 1968, the division deployed to I Corps to help with the battle for Hue and later moved farther north to relieve the siege of Khe Sanh. Later that year, it deployed to III Corps to blunt a threatened enemy attack on Saigon.
Spearheading the Cav’s Operation Liberty Canyon, a 571-mile foray from the sands around Camp Evans and Highway 1 to the triple canopy of the Cambodian border, the modern bearers of General George Armstrong Custer’s 7th Cavalry standards landed at Quan Loi on Halloween night. Immediately afterward, the brigade assaulted to within four kilometers of the Cambodian border to establish LZ (landing zone) Billy.
From the outset, things didn’t augur well for Delta Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry (2/7). The air assault into Billy was planned to drop the company into a huge, grassy meadow. Instead, they plopped neck-deep in swamp water. The ground water made it impossible to dig down, and expected enemy concentrations made it too scary to build bunkers up. But somehow, as was usually the case, they got the job done, building a passable ”home” for themselves, their ”redleg” support — the cannon cockers of the 2nd Battalion, 19th Artillery — and a couple of squads of engineers. And, of course, for the ”birds” as well: helicopters completed 181 sorties in two days as the Cav got operational in a big hurry.
And not a minute too soon, either. The ”Cold Steel” battalion’s first blood was drawn from Bravo Company on November 2, when the soldiers ran smack into an NVA (North Vietnamese Army) bunker complex while returning from a company-size reconnaissance in force.
Bravo had almost made it back to Billy’s confines when the trailing platoon was cut off from the company by intense small-arms fire. Captain Bill Meara turned his troops around and went to the beleaguered platoon’s support. At the same time, ”Cold Steel Six,” Lt. Col. Addison Davis III, battalion commander of 2/7, saddled up Delta and Charlie Companies and moved them to block the NVA force. But the NVA weren’t going anywhere. Dug in deep in reinforced bunkers, they took on the blocking force too. But they didn’t stop Captain Meara.
He was determined to rescue his trapped platoon. So determined, in fact, he personally led an assault against a bunker, killing two NVA and silencing its crew-served weapon. He died taking on a second bunker, but not before he eliminated the NVA in that one, too. The momentum didn’t die with Meara. In seconds, Davis had the company moving forward, routing bunkers as they went. Davis personally recovered Meara’s body and carried it out of the line of fire. He then directed a lethal shower of artillery, Air Force fighter-bombers and ARA (aerial rocket artillery) fire that drove the enemy into the jungle. On November 4, 1968, Maj. Gen. George I. Forsythe, the division commander, made the trip to Billy to pin a much deserved Silver Star on Cold Steel Six.
Doc,
This part (Bravo had almost made it back to Billy’s confines when the trailing platoon was cut off from the company) of Banko’s piece is wrong.
We (2nd. platoon) were out there all by our lonesome! And after Sgt. Holtz killed the firs NVA,it wasn’t but just a few minutes that we walked into the gooks base camp and all hell broke loose. After being pinned down by those guys for an hour or so,Captain Meara and 1st platoon showed up on the other side of the NVA and tried to get up out. That was when Meara and the other guy was killed,I think his name was Frank?
After Meara and Frank were KIA,1st platoon pulled back and we got a radio call telling we were going to get out the best way we could!
Jack Jeter
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Roger Lutz (Doc Lutz) became a registered member 2 months, 1 week ago · View
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Hanyaks Nephew started the forum topic Pictures in the group
General Discussion: 2 months, 2 weeks ago · View
How do you post pictures on the site? I have some from the reunion a few years back that I would like to post.
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Hanyaks Nephew started the forum topic Hanyak-Pete Polak in the group
Hi, my name is Dominic Johnjulio, I have met a few of you Great Veterans a couple of years ago in DC for a reunion. I am the nephew of Pete Polak. I believe you guys would know him as Hanyak. (spelling?) Uncle Pete isn’t doing well these days. He is in a retirement place [...]
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Hanyaks Nephew posted on the forum topic New Record, sad month in the group
Probably not too many Tim. It’s a shame.
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Hanyaks Nephew posted an update: 2 months, 2 weeks ago · View
Oh, my phone number is 724-964-1119 if yas want to contact me.
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Hanyaks Nephew posted an update: 2 months, 2 weeks ago · View
Hi, my name is Dominic Johnjulio, I have met a few of you Great Veterans a couple of years ago in DC for a reunion. I am the nephew of Pete Polak. I believe you guys would know him as Hanyak. (spelling?) Uncle Pete isn’t doing well these days. He is in a retirement place called the Greer House in New Castle, Pa. It will be a year in April since he has been there. We had to place him there cause he could not live on his own anymore for his health care. It’s a real nice place. But, in April of 2011 when he first got there, he paid his amount to get a Room there, but he didn’t have enough to live there each month. So, the VA stepped in and paid a little more to compensate. Greer house knew the monthly payment was short but they said they would keep him anyways. Fine. Till last week, they say they can not keep him any longer, they already gave him 30 days notice to move out. His only alternative is to go to a Home. And none of the Homes in our area are very good. I am pissed that a place would do this to a Vet, especially to a Viet Nam vet, who already have been dis respected many times over. Any help or ideas? And he told me to tell all you guys he says hello. I wonder if there is anything Gen McCaffrey can do?
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Hanyaks Nephew became a registered member 2 months, 2 weeks ago · View
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steve petty posted an update: 2 months, 2 weeks ago · View
Does anybody know anything about a B/2/7 reunion at Branson,mo. for the week ofJune,12,2012?
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Yes. I believe that the 1st black guy in front of the Ammo box is me. Keep in mind that these events occured almost 44 years ago. I arrived at Camp Evans around August 3 or 4, 1968 from An Khe. I was assigned the 3rd platoon by CPT Meara. I remember returning from a patrol and another unit that was parallel to mine tripped a large bobby trap and either severely wounded or killed two fellow soldiers.Were you with the platoon when we rescued a 4 man LRRP team? The team spent the night with us and was left behind the next morning. That was the worst feeling I ever had. About a day or two after the completion of LZ Billie, I was replaced by a heavy set LT with a moustache, who suffered from heat exhaustion. I moved to the weapons platoon and then reassigned to MACV.
Do you remember the incident in the rubber plantation where a gentleman in what appeared to be a white tennis outfit engaged in a heated conversation with CPT Meara.
My email is goongma@yahoo.com. Please send me a message and I will send you phone number or you can send me your number and I will call you. Look at my profile on the web page. -
steve petty posted an update: 3 months, 2 weeks ago · View
hgreen; Did you look at my pictures album under Steve Pettys Vietnam Album?
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steve petty posted an update: 3 months, 2 weeks ago · View
To hgreen; I dont remember the heavy rain at camp evans.Igot to Nam 0ct. 8,1968.Camp evans was my first assignment. A guy named Jim Leonard was tall,slender,blond and had a mustache. He got in touch with me in 2005 and now we see each once a year and talk on the phone a few times a year. In nam he knew Willie Brown and Citille. When did you leave the third platoon? Here are some more names.Gary Zearott,Ohmer Gabbard and Joe Daniels. I have never tweeted so I never got your phone number.
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