MACV Team 77 – Trung Hoa.
This Page is intended for the discussion of the Military Assistance Command Vietnam Team 77 located in Trung Hoa.
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MACV Team 77 – Trung Hoa.
This Page is intended for the discussion of the Military Assistance Command Vietnam Team 77 located in Trung Hoa.
My name is Jim Lauer, I was with the MAAG in 1961. I was at Trung Lap for only one day to give some administrative support. It looked so different back then.
I was stationed in Trung Lap in July of 1968 as a field artilery radar operator.
I’m looking for anyone who was at the trung lap training center in 1966. I was the radio operator there. Looking for “doc” Elbert m. Boyd Lt. Lee, pappy hires? Major Gransback, Sgt. Gentz.
Hi, my name is Greg Gransback, Major Don Gransback was my father. He retired from the Army in 1985, worked for state civil defense in Honolulu, HI, for ten years and retired fully in 1995. He passed away in Honolulu in 2015. My mom, Bernice, is still alive living with my daughter in Richmond, VA. I’m a retired Army CW4 and now work for the Dept of the Interior in Wash D.C. both my brother are retired Army Soldiers as well, and my son is also inn the Army.
Hi Greg, I’ve been off this site for awhile. I have old black and white photo of the whole group of us including your dad. If you text, my # is 352-636-5964. Text me and I can send it to you. I never knew your dad’s first name, lol. Just Major Gransback. He was a very honest and fair man who treated us at Trung Lap as tho we were just equal. Oh, I also have him laying out in a lawn chair with a towel wrapped around him. We did that every day from noon till 2. It’s like the war stopped for that time. Please text me when you can.
I was there with my Bn (43rd) in Sept/ Oct of 66. I remember the names you listed, and have a few photos of them, as well as the Interpaddy Airport sign. If I recall, each evening we watched The Hank Williams Story movie.
CHARLIE, I was there from June 66 to June 67.
I remember you well.
Hope all is well with you.
Joel Darsey
Hey Joel, shoot me a text@352-636-5964 and we can get caught up in our lives. I live in Florida.
Looking for anyone who remembers SGT. Lewis Milton King team 77 and 57 Radio Technology KIA 21 Aug 1968 married a local girl has a daughter 51 years old Nga
I was at Trung Lap with my Battalion (43rd BDQ) in the Fall of 1966. We were upgrading from our World War II vintage equipment. Actually had my CIB pinned on by the Senior Advisor. Have a few pictures of the area and the staff. A great bunch. Many of the officers were Aggies.
Hey David, I was the radio operator at trung lap the year of 1966. The previous year I was the radio operator for the 30th ranger battalion (bdq). I’m new to this site so hit me up if you’re still here. Sgt. Charlie Stoothoff.
David, I was the base radio operator at the same time you were there. I was with the 30th (BDQ) for the year before.
My name is Richard Carey. I was 19 years old when assigned to Advisory Team 77 in 1963-64. a Ranger Training Center. My first assignment in Vietnam was in the MAAG com center in Cholon,a suburb of Saigon before being transferred to Trung Hoa / Trung Lap. I was with the Team when Sgt W. Dunlap was KIA during an ambush while on a recon training exercise, and I remember that afterward, we had built a memorial to him in the compound. I still remember Sgt. Dupree a Medic, Sgt. Schober, Sgt Ames and Sgt Yont, as well as our CO; Major Ludwig Faistenhammer, Jr, It’s amazing how I can remember this more than 50 years later, that’s how much things impacted me back then. I did not know it then, but the time I spent with these men and those who I can’t remember, was a maturing experience that has impacted my entire life. God bless all of the men I served with over there.