Posted on May 10, 2016
SGT Jonathon Caldwell
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SSgt Carpenter
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I played cards. However I did watch band of brothers start to finish on my buddies laptop. Other than that, didn't watch much.
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LTC Tom Jones
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Here is a little wrinkle for you; sort of a "blast from the past." We had a 16-mm projector in the team house at A-236 where I was a Camp Conversion Officer. This was on the Cambodian border in 1970. Special Services (I suppose) had movie tins rotated around from unit to unit. We got a couple at a time every two to three weeks. We would prop the tin side panel on the team house up to expose a bed sheet and show the movie to the team members inside while our Vietnamese counterpart cadre and our predominately Montagnard CIDG--along with their families--would sit outside and enjoy, what was for some a "moving picture" miracle. Images were reverse and the language was completely foreign to most of them but they thoroughly enjoyed the spectacle. Generally, they sat quietly and attentively on the other side of the "screen" watching such fare as "Night of the Living Dead" or some slightly dated western. The most memorable night came when we were but a few minutes into the movie when the uproar from outside the team house was so sudden and so loud we all started for our weapons. The movie, "Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops, (1955)." Physical comedy--a universal language.
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SGT Jonathon Caldwell
SGT Jonathon Caldwell
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Sounds like good memories sir.
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SMSgt Lawrence McCarter
SMSgt Lawrence McCarter
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i can remember an experience much like that, the same thing with a 16 mm Film on an outside home made screen. I remember watching the movie with John Wayne, "The Green Berets" and outside the fence were Vietnamese Military members also watching the movie. Our overall setting though was a lot less isolated than Yours though ,I was at Da Nang.
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SMSgt Lawrence McCarter
SMSgt Lawrence McCarter
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Also in Viet Nam We also had a 16 mm projector that one of the guys got some less than socially acceptable films and the guys packed in to watch them. These were not films You wanted to advertise You were showing but it was a private as possible setting.
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I remember those days in 2004-05 (FOB Warhorse, Baquobah, Iraq) and 2006-07 (COB Speicher, Tikrit, Iraq).
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SGT Jonathon Caldwell
SGT Jonathon Caldwell
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I've been to Speicher but in 03. Stayed there for about 3 weeks in early May after jumping from Taji. Moved on to Baji and then Iranian border in Khanakin after that for a few months. Stayed across the river from Tikrit palaces for the month of November before moving to Samara to do route clearance on Hwy 1 until March of 04.
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SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL
SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL
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SFC (Join to see) thanks for reminding me of the outlaw days of Iraq. Wow, bringing back memories!
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SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL
SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL
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SGT Jonathon Caldwell - I remember the Samara by pass! Wow 2003-2005.
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