South Korea – Page 4 – Memoirs of a Country Vet

My Christmases in the Army

D. E. Larsen, DVM “Company D, Private Drake speaking, can I help you,” Bill answered the phone on a snowy Christmas Eve in 1965. Bill and I were pulling CQ (charge of quarters) duty for Company D, a duty company for troops waiting for school at Fort Devens. We were a couple of lucky ones;Continue reading “My Christmases in the Army “

Dumb and Dumber

D. E. Larsen, DVM By the summer of nineteen sixty-seven, I had been elevated to Quality Control NCO in our maintenance shop for the 177th USASA Operations Company located at Camp Humphreys, South Korea. The year I was there is often called the second Korean War. We were besieged by many infiltrators from North KoreaContinue reading “Dumb and Dumber”