This is kind of long for an email list, but it's one of my war stories and I'm in a chatty mood, so..[Proceeded to tell BAS/rat killing story located on BAS page of this site]

This rat story of Dan’s brings back memories of the rats at Con Thien in Nov of 67...those of yall who were there remember them....Monsters...also remember a few rats while up on 881S, them were big fookers also...
Semper Fi
Ed

Dan, great rat killin story!! Reminds me of the time I caught a rat wearing my helmet & flack jacket at Khe Sahn. I was gonna kill it, but the bastard made corporal the next day and put me on a work detail. Had some good buds in H&S, and was wonderin if you, or anyone remembers them. Jimmy King, Tom Ketchum, Donny Ditchen, Lyle Meyers, Rick Collier, Buddy Mauler? When I wasn't FOin with the companies, I was in FSCC, which was always TAD to 1/1 H&S, so I got to hang with these guys. We killed some rats together.
Mike in D-troit

I Remember Jimmy King and Rick Collier. Both radio operators, have a pic of both of them. Wasn't Jimmy from Texas and was a disk Jockey somewhere in Dallas I believe.
Jim Thompson

Mike,
Tim Pitts has been trying to locate Jimmy for years. Hope you have some luck. It would be great if you could scan some pics. I lost a photo album at the reunion so Collier and King are gone.
Jim

Have you checked with the hotel here in Detroit to see if they have your album? If you like, I can follow up on that for you, through my hotel connections from the reunion. Funny thing, someone at the reunion had their pics out for viewing at the table outside our registration room. I put a picture of me and Jimmy, holding a sign at Con Thien, the "Place of Angels". I forgot to pick it up later, so now it is in someone's collection. Good thing I have an extra copy of it. I'll be sure to scan that one for you. I will keep looking for Mr. King, but you guys with the common names are tough to find!
Mike

No kidding I had a copy of that pic.
Jim

Hold on I';m looking at the pic now. The sign says "Through this gate pass the world finest fighting men they wear a green uniform they call themselves Marines-The place of Angels. Is that you on the right?
Jim

On the back of the pic it says Jim and Mickey. This is something.
Jim Thompson

Yup, that's me. Look on the back of the pic. If it's the one I left at the table, I wrote on the back that it was me and Jimmy at Con Thein. How's this for a coincidence? If that is your own copy, then you and I knew each other. Were you in Comm with Jim and Collier?
Mike

Holy Shit, that IS your copy of the same pic! I was Mickey in RVN. I remember a guy named Thompson that we nick named Tommy. Could that be you? Do you remember Tony Fraini, Rodney Harrelson, Harold Zook, Art Coscia, Mark Kins? This is wild, man!
Mike

Unbelievable Jim! Sometimes I curse the years that have fogged my memory so much, but this site is sure helping. I never want to forget the friendships of those times. Yes, that means I must also remember some bad times, but it's all connected. Thank you Ed Yates, for your work on this thing. We all owe you and the other moderators a collective "well done"! I'm proud to have written the words that are on the plaque that we gave you at the reunion, but they really come from all of us. And I never really believed those things that Fugi says about you, but in my mind he is still my Lt., so I gotta pretend to go along. You understand.
SF
Mike

Dear Mickey,
I can't believe this. Your the only guy I've talked to that I have a pic of other then Frank and Gen. Smith. I mean this from the heart, if you ever need anything just give a call. This is something.
Semper Fi,
Tommy

I'm thinking if Zook is the Marine we called "Zeke" I knew him. I have a pic ofthe two of us I believe around Con Thien. I do remember a few hours after the pic was taken he got peppered with shrapnel, and I as far as I knew made it home. My memory is shot. The other guys I may have known, but names are gone. But I'm glad were hooked up. This is something. I teach school (2nd grade) and you can bet were singing the Marine Corps Hymnn after we say the pledge this morning. In honor of this occasion.
Jim

I've seen the term used here before, looks like an acronym for something, but don't have a clue as to what it means. It might be one of those things I used to know, but it drifted away. What is CRS?

Jim and Mike. Watching you conversation go by was beautiful. I don't even know you guys and it made me feel good.

Dan King
H&S S-1
Feb69-Feb70

CRS Dan is an acronym (I think that’s the term) for "Can't Remember Shit"....

And yes, you know, or have at least met Mike and Jim...Both were at the Reunion...What is really wild is that I saw Mike and Jim talking to each other up in the hospitality room....Ha ha ha lordy lordy lordy....

Both of their pictures are on the Reunion 99 page at the Charlie Company web site....And yes, when two men who were more than brothers get together after a long time, it is very rewarding...

Semper Fi Bro's
Ed