Black Knights Book

Submitted by
Name: Hugh Mills
From: Kansas City, MO
E-mail: hmills16@aol.com

Comments:
Looking for D Troop Scout gunner Rip Smith. Anybody have his email or phone?
Hugh Mills
CHarliehorse 38, 71/72

Added: June 24, 2019

Submitted by
Name: Thomas Frederick Payne
From: Richmond, Virginia
E-mail: bigpaintdog@aol.com

Comments:
Randy Pantoja, and Mickey Myers I see you have been on. Any more of 3rd platoon on here? Mickey I can't remember the guy who got hit with you only that < I think, he was a blonde headed Sweede. I was TC of the 33 track Think Thrice. Mine was one of the tracks that caught an RPG.

Added: June 18, 2019

Submitted by
Name: eugene blakely
From: ONEONTA, AL 35121
E-mail: eugeneblakely2@gmail.com

Comments:
JUST LOOKING AT PICS AND THE ROSTER.

Added: June 8, 2019

Submitted by
Name: Jenn Mahoney
From: Troy,NY
E-mail: chrysheart@gmail.com

Comments:
I was curious about finding out about my Dad, and getting his records so I could get a military plaque for his grave. He died suddenly in 99. James "Jay" Mahoney.

B Troop 3/5 I don't know alot about his service years. I just know he was always trying to protect me.

Added: June 6, 2019

Submitted by
Name: Robert Hicks C Trp 3rdPltDong Ha
From: Chicago
E-mail: hicksr784@gmail.com

Comments:
I would love to Find Kenneth Irwin Getty was the driver of APC 15

Added: May 27, 2019

Submitted by
Name: Michael Hutchinson
From: Brunswick Ga.
E-mail: mhutch1948@gmail.com

Comments:
B Trp 3/5 Cav. 2nd Platoon, 23 delta. Jan 68-69. Thanks to all who served.

Added: May 20, 2019

Submitted by
Name: John "Woodstock" Wood, B Troop and HHT,70-71
From: Tennessee

Comments:
Did you drink from streams in Nam? Did you eat raw or under-cooked fish while there? I bought those fish on homemade rolls from mama sanh and drank from I Corp streams. VA doctors have told me for decades that I have odd scaring, cysts, holes and sacs in my liver. They could not (or would not) tell me why.

Hundreds of Vietnam War veterans who’ve died, or are dying, of bile duct cancer, which is also called cholangiocarcinoma caused by those tiny worms they ingested in Vietnam.

The cancer can be caused by parasitic worms, called liver flukes, that are found in fish in the waters of Vietnam and other Southeast Asian countries.

Humans who drink from Southeast Asian streams or eat raw or undercooked fish can easily acquire the parasite larvae, which mature in the slender tubes (bile ducts) that carry the digestive fluid bile, and can produce carcinogenic irritation.

Thousands of Americans who served in Vietnam could be at risk for this cancer. Some were service connected.

Added: May 17, 2019

Submitted by
Name: sgt. Lionel Parker
From: New Orleans,LA
E-mail: lpark7224@gmail.com

Comments:
Trp C 3d sqdn 5th Can 9th inf Div.

Added: April 27, 2019

Submitted by
Name: Larry Brown
From: Oregon
E-mail: 1419sw@gmail.com

Comments:
Just checking in looking forward to Reno and seeing old friends. Charlie Horse 19 1970

Added: April 15, 2019

Submitted by
Name: Jack Hammell
From: Leavenworth, KS
E-mail: eireretire2012@gmail.com

Comments:
I flew with the Black Knights in D Troop in 1971-72 (OH-6 "Cayuse" scouts) out of Quang Tri airbase. And, thanks to a squadron commander with an interesting sense of humor and/or a real interest in "developing" his subordinates, I also got to lead a ground cav platoon in the A Shau Valley - where I got lots of unexpected experience and a Purple Heart. Thanks, Colonel!

Added: April 12, 2019