Happy New Year

Happy New Year!

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Photos from Danang, Vietnam, Tet New Year Celebration. A little different today then back in our day.

Danang is Fireworks Festival city. Lunar New Year’s Eve Fireworks is a great celebration.

Which is the way I remember it. We watched the Tet Celebration for 1970 from the top of Hill 327 looking over DaNang and south to Chu Lai. You could see many tracer rounds fired up from positions up and down the coast, with multiple explosions. Very impressive. The rounds were going up, mostly. They just don't make fireworks celebrations like they did back in the good old days.

https://chinesenewyearblog.com/danang-lunar-new-year/

Click to read the article and view more photos:

https://pierretrowbridge.com/celebrating-tet-new-years-in-vietnam/?doing_wp_cron=1609438817.9648399353027343750000

This time-lapse photo shows a Douglas AC-47 "Spooky" at work on the outskirts of Saigon. The sheet of red raining down from the night sky represents only one of every five bullets fired from the gunship’s miniguns. (U.S. Air Force)

https://www.historynet.com/strange-gunship-operations-in-the-vietnam-war.htm

The New Years celebration in Vietnam in 2021 is much nicer and better than the ones during the Vietnam War.

Peace on Earth, Good Will Towards Men (and Women)

Luncheon Reservation Form Jan 2021

Calendar and The Sarasota Breeze Jan 2021

Click to read the Sarasota Breeze

sarasotabreeze.blogspot.com

You can also find the Breeze on our website

sarasotamoaa.com

MOAS Supported Guide Dogs

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving - Please keep Linda and Woz in Your Prayers

Thanksgiving Dinner Back in the Good Old Days - Finger Licking Good!

Thanksgiving Dinner Back in the Good Old Days - Finger Licking Good!

Our turkey dinner in Vietnam!

Add a heat tab.... and a veritable feast. Yummie!

Delicious and nutritious. It was better with hot

sauce.

Some guys liked Nước chấm sauce with it.

Nước chấm is a Vietnamese dipping sauce -

an acquired taste.

Happy Thanksgiving.

The Most Unpopular C-Ration, Called Ham and and Obscenity by the Troops

C Rations

P-35 "John Wayne" Can Openers

A friend asked if we were issued can openers for our C-Rations. We were!

Official military designations for the P-38 include

"OPENER, CAN, HAND, FOLDING, TYPE I".

We were issued a P-38 can opener, commonly called a "John Wayne". Many of us wore the opener around our necks with our dog tags. They were small and handy and many of us still have them.

From Wikapedia

The P-38, developed in 1942,^[1] is a small can opener that was issued in the canned field rations of the United States Armed Forces from World War II to the 1980s. Originally designed for and distributed in the K-ration, it was later included in the C-ration. As of 2020, it is still in production and sold on a worldwide market.^[2]