Posted on Mar 2, 2021
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I came across the story of Chick Donohue from a friend who was reading his book. If you don't know who this guy is I recommend the book. More or less Chick wanted to have a drink with his buddies. The only problem he was in New York and his friends were 8,000 miles away fighting a war in Vietnam. The article details what many have described as the greatest beer run every. As such what was your greatest beer run and who did you do it for?
https://taskandpurpose.com/history/chick-donohue-vietnam-greatest-beer-run-history/#:~:text=To%20set%20the%20record%20straight,warzone%20with%20beers%20in%20hand.
https://taskandpurpose.com/history/chick-donohue-vietnam-greatest-beer-run-history/#:~:text=To%20set%20the%20record%20straight,warzone%20with%20beers%20in%20hand.
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Not a beer run. As a young soldier at Chinook Maintenance AIT I had an old E-7 Vietnam veteran instructor. One time we were talking soldier to soldier. He talked about smoking pot and sitting an the rear cargo door and looking at Vietnam from the Chinook. I watched his face and he looked like he was deep in his thoughts as he described a spiritual moment. I liked him a lot because he was cool.
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We carried spare parts to the Shah’s P3s at Bandar Abbas. Lockheed Martin provided the tech’s and engineers to maintain the planes. Along with spare parts we carried a large quantity of coors beer. This beer run was from Kadena AB, Okinawa to Bandar Abbas. That is about 4500 miles as the crow flies.
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The door gunner. Our squad would give him the cash and on resupply day he would return with beer and blocks of ice to roll it in to get cold. Two beers and I was tipsy. Then off on patrol again. A guy in our squad had his sister send whiskey in shampoo bottles. Lots of crazy stories.
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SPC Joseph Kopac
I quess she did. We weren’t allowed whiskey and that’s how she got it by Customs or whatever. I got a picture of him standing on a bunker drinking it.
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