Re: 1970 Danang-MAG-11 Hooch Area Rocket Attack -- War Stories!

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Date Posted: Mon, July 09 2007, 15:34:33
Author: Sgt Michael S. Miller - USMC Ser# 2261634 (Bad memory)
Author Host/IP: 71-219-2-98.slkc.qwest.net / 71.219.2.98
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Re: 1970 Danang-MAG-11 Hooch Area Rocket Attack

I was in the hooch next to Randalls the morning of the rocket attack. There were more than four rockets by the way. I assisted in removing Randall's body from the area. He was killed by multiple schrapnel fragments and concusion of the rocket. I have a photo of his hooch and I sustained some small fragments of schrapnel on my right arm which ripped the flesh slightly and a first aid kit was used to stop the minor bleeding. I refused to go the Med hooch. Sgt. D.
Hickey was also in the hooch that took the direct hit. He told me a few days later that he saw the nose of the rocket break the corugated metal on the roof and with a delay in the fuse he watched it explode from less than 30 feet away. He was knocked out of the hooch and when I got to him he was hanging outside the now missing wall and clinging to the frame of his rack. His knees about three inches from the ground outside the hooch. He was never the same and a few weeks later they evacuated him on a medical. We never spoke again.

I am currently in some pretty intense PTSD sessions and this story was part of "My Story" about my time in country.

Semper Fi

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