tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6198442674791729773.post8226348783791823396..comments2024-03-26T21:38:47.081-04:00Comments on HMS Defiant: A LETTER TO JOSIEHMS Defianthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10024721130102173694noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6198442674791729773.post-24654151321313967522015-03-09T12:47:14.421-04:002015-03-09T12:47:14.421-04:00no no. You should have seen what the Army offered ...no no. You should have seen what the Army offered at 6th Army, Presidio of San Francisco! I have to admit that as a LT you might not have liked us when we arrived. We bounced a golf ball of a General's golf cart. He came all the way back up to the tee to invite us to admire his invisible stars and me and Todd waggled clubs and told him, he wasn't the party in front of us, he was so far off his stroke he was in the wrong fairway and way and invited him to FOAD.<br /><br />I was still in the process of teaching my subordinate officers. We had a hasty way with senior officers......what were they going to do? Send us to a war zone?<br /><br />The Navy Club at Yongsan was 10 orders of magnitude better than any of the Army Clubs there.HMS Defianthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10024721130102173694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6198442674791729773.post-24618228344566489722015-03-09T12:18:35.663-04:002015-03-09T12:18:35.663-04:00I think the FW and the American Legion is mainly a...I think the FW and the American Legion is mainly an enlisted thing. No one I know who was an officer and Viet Vet ever joined and my Father, a WW II Inf officer never joined either--nor did any of the other ex-officers on the faculty that I knew, to the best of my knowledge.<br /><br />And ROGER THAT on Army O-clubs! The only Navy club I was ever in was the "Stone Elephant" at DaNang, which was as fabulous as any O-club (or night club, for that matter) in the US. I once wandered into the 5th Army HQ )-club in Fort Carson, Colo and it was like something out of a John Wayne movie--a big barn-like structure that you nailed as a "cold echoing hall" of a wooden dance floor with nary a person in sight in mid afternoon. I was amazed. THIS is the O-club at a permanent numbered Army HQ!!!??? "God" I thought, "I don't want to even see the ones at the isolated outposts." (Although the MACV/Army club at DaNang not far from the Stone Elephant downtown was dynamite mainly because it was the old Colonial French Army O-Club and was a magnificent old structure and almost impossible for the Army to screw up as it was run mainly by civilians attached to MACV, iirc)virgil xenophonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14577165785872035948noreply@blogger.com