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This was well done thank you

great to watch, I was there off and on attached HQ 2/77 with the 25th. Was there for the July 4th Battle and Feb 23rd TET battle, end of airstrip, i think bunker 65 area.

that’s my pop gustave (Gus) appis is his name ❤️

Thank you for making this video! My great grandmother’s cousin, Michael Twigg, is featured in this. I love it

Billy van Dusen ✝️❤️

OH...AND OF COURSE, BRUCE SHOWED US HIS LATEST SURF MOVIE ONE NIGHT.

FIVE OF US FROM FLORIDA, ONE WAS DIANE RYNASKO, SPENT A SUMMER IN SAG HARBOR LONG ISLAND, CIRCA 1972. AND WHO SHOWS UP AT OUR CABIN, FILM MAKER BRUCE WALKER, WITH BARBIE BELYEA AND SANDY ORDILLE. WE ALL SURFED MONTAUK ONE AFTERNOON, AND I WAS SPELL-BOUND WATCHING THESE TWO GIRLS SURF. I WAS SO BLOWN AWAY BY THEIR STYLE, THAT I COULD BARELY SURF. IT WAS AN HONOR TO SPEND TIME WITH THESE PEOPLE. GOOD TIMES, FOR SURE...

I bought my first surfboard from Will and Fred in Narragansett, It was the best day of my life. Both Will and Fred were great guys. There is so much of this video that I lived. Great video.

Living in Hawaii Kai, dud a lot of skateboarding at Uluwatu's & Wallos

Legend

I started in 64, i think you before me, Newqell's was the store they hung 9 ft boards from the balcony rail great interview, hommie

legend.

You had some very nice waves to ride.......

I'm a proud Vietnam/Draft resistor. Congratulations to the "Three Draftees" who were nothing more than chumps and pawns for allowing themselves to participate in Vietnam. Let's just say they were assholes who didn't have the brains to figure out the total dysfunction of Americans in Vietnam. Maybe these "Draftees" were also cowards b/c they let the US Government bully them with consequences if they did not go. One thing they were not....heroes. They were survivors of an American disgrace and disaster.

I love the history of aerial surfing. Im a huge enthusiast. I have his photos on my hard drive for many years. A legend. Cheers from Brazil

September 15 1966, I was 6, to young unlisted but, I wish I did in 1978. Became a landscape designer instead.

Was there at Lally hide away for 2 weeks from New Hampshire

I remember Larry's hide away we were there for 2 weeks in a cabin from New Hampshire met many friends

Nice jobs

Infrantry are most people die in a war

This swell was heavy in Ormond by the Sea

Thanks for the flashback! I was on Artillery Hill 70-72

Excellent presentation. Looks very professional. I am starting with episode 7 as I found it while being sure how to spell Enari. We could have easily stumbled on each other. I got there sometime in early 1967 and left in mid-1968. Too bad we missed each other. I trained as a wheeled vehicle mechanic, but they needed a track mechanic so with an eraser and pencil I changed MOS. It is nice to see you worked with radios as I was an RTO for the special reactionary team. Also got a tad of use with more fancy stuff in the back of an M11AI. 1/10th Cav, 4th inf. Anyway, I enjoyed your presentation. Thank you for taking the time.

Same Larry Hohl that managed the Exxon gas stations for Delmarva Oil back in the early 80's? If so, I remember surfing with him at the pier. Great video!

Brings back memories, and learned to surf in Texas in the late 60’s! It sure was fun.

Love the Ormond history. I surfed this past fall when the hurricane came through and there were big waves in Ormond

Wealth, fame and beauty last only a day.

Was a dozer operator of 815th Engineer Battalion at Engineer Hill from Dec 67 to Dec 68. Went to various places kon tum, ankhe. Looking at some of the pics made me thankful of the work that was done before I got there. We never palled around with the Arvins:I guess by by the time we got there their reputation was really bad. WELCOME HOME

My Uncle Bill Main was with you.

I got to Dau Tieng March 68 right after Tet. That French building was the HQ for 2/77 Arty. We were sent to Saigon because it was thought the VC woukd attack that area during the Fourth of July. We were told we would be setup in Airforce barracks. This meant flush toilets, showers with hot water and real beds. No, we were bivouacked along an air strip on Ton Son Neut airbase. We dug a latrine only to use wet TP and being attacked by a zillion mosquitos. Nothing happened in Saigon. As an RTT I had to go back to DT to pick up a working radio. I woke up around 2am to seeing flares theu the upper screen in the hooch. We were hit that night. Two members oh HQ Batterywere lost.

Great video. I was in 25th Inf. 2/77 Artilery HQ Battery commo section as a RTT (RadioTeletype Operator). From March 68 to Jan 69. Then finished my tour in Cu Chi. Having that swimming pool was quite a benefit. And the snack bar and gift shop at ground level. Bought a number of cheap guitars there until a black market Gibson J45 appeared.

Mahalo for sharing this! I lived in Mariner’s Cove in the 70’s and 80’s and spent a lot of time there. My paper route was even down that dirt road to the farms back there. Great memories.

Just got back from St John. Call a couple novelty waves at Cinnamon Bay. RIP Will Lucas

Very nice video....👍

I think the one red haired kid skating towards the later part of the video was Jimbo Brothers who became a very well known East Coast surfer.

I arrived in Nam March 1968. As an RTT operator I had it made in Dau Tieng. Dodging mortar and rockets now and then was the sport of us dumb kids. But we had the above ground French swimming pool, the shops and snack bar below and the place where we coukd buy those awful Vietnam guitars. I wished I would have brought one back though. I did score a Gibson J-45 via the black market, that I did bring back. Interesting time. I never have understood why we were there though. I have my thoughts but I keep ‘em to myself. There were quite a few French building at Dau Tieng. My unit, 2/77 Artillery’s headquarters were in one of the two story buildings. Behind it was a non functioning fountain. One day a friend brought in two ducks and two chickens he bought in the village. The battalion colonel saw them and commented how he was a Iowa farm boy. He then ordered the water truck guys to fill the fountain for the ducks. We built a gazebo over it, made tiki torches out of tent poles, beer cans, sand and gasoline. We lit them once then figured we didn’t need to give ‘Charlie’ a good target. I remember a large single floor building. I was just walking around and saw some kids practicing karate. I walked in and I couldn’t believe my eyes. There was a big band in baby blue blazers playing to no one. I remember the guitarist had a light blue Fender Stratocaster and played incredible Asian licks. It was quite a surreal experience.

Great interview and Renee explains it all so well.

I lived on Dorchester street near the boardwalk that winter. It was wild!

I shared the same time frame as you. Welcome home brother. 66 &67 was a rough time for many of us. Glad to be home even if the battle isn't over...

Had to give this one a thumbs up for sure especially being number 223.

Pleiku and Ban Me Thout? MACV SOG!!!

Some people think they didn't draft men into the Marine Corps during the Vietnam War; but they definitely did. I volunteered to join the Corps in 1964 and I met several Marines who had been drafted.

Amazing video... thank you! This caught me up on so much and all the amazing people who paved the way in New England Surfing. Very odd to not know any of the people in this video because I started in 1964 but wasn't in the contest scene until 67' when I surfed contests all over New England and knew all the players. Of course I knew the Hobie Shop in Gansett and Cape Cod but just as a grom, first learning the ropes. Started in summer of 65 when I bought a beat up old Newporter Pop-out from Larry and Scoot Mckinney at Surf City Rental stand in Orleans, Cape Cod I bought my first new board from the Hobie Shop in Orleans Ma summer of 66' They threw my Newporter out the back door and I went out the front with an awesome yellow and blue Hobie Noserider! My era was a bit later when some of the folks in this video had come into their own like Randy Radke and Bill Spicer and the Will Jacobs Team was full speed ahead. I was on the team at Jasper's Surf Shop a Dewey Weber Shop during the Short-Board Revolution... very exciting times!! Summers were spent traveling the ESA Contest circuit all over New England and meeting lifelong friends from every state. In fact I spent last night with Dave Levy and some of the Narragansett crew at a paddle-out for my buddy and life long ripper Jay Todd. The amazing thing is, not much has changed in my life... at 73, I signed a multi year contract as a Pro Surfer for Sunova Surfboards.... riding and promoting the SUP line. I travel the world, surfing, living, learning and grateful for every day! I now get paid to surf.... hey Ma, I told you!!!! 🤣 If you want to look into the surf life of a 74 year old Grom... click my name and look around my CZcams channel..... surfing is as alive as ever! Surfing truly is the gift of Life. Thank you to all the incredible people that have made this possible with your Shops, your contests, videos and promotions... and fighting to keep our beaches open!!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Draft Number 71.... 1970...

That was absolutely stellar!

Are there English subtitles, bruddah?

Well Done, Will !!!

Hi Paul I also was in Qui hnon.

62E20 362nd engr. Co. LE Tay Nyn 1967 till Apr. 1969.

This is awesome!! I wish I could go back. To see the simply beautiful times back then, brings back so many good memories for me. Chriss Dowling