Thanks for the posting. this is the 71st Evac near Pleiku. I spent 30 days there with malaria in early 68. Late Jan. and Early Feb. We got hit hard at Tet with 7 direct rocket hits and enemy within the perimeter. I was scared and unarmed. A nurse named Jeanette Wolfe journaled her experience and brought it all back to me a few years ago. Welcome home.
@darkwingthedog The 71st did do a lot of good. I went thru there as a CO medic in its final yr. By then the frat-party REMF's got into alot of dope, too much booze & sex, racial tensions. The Army & some of the 71st was a mess. The war was by then a mess. Took the Army & many of us a long time to get right again. Meanwhile grunts suffered, as usual. I 'profiled' as many as I could to the States with medical transfers. Breaking rules? Sure, but what're they going to do - send me to the 'Nam~!?
I was in Pleiku during 1968 - 815th Engineer Brg. - sure brought back memories of engineer hill barracks and I did remember several of the guys in the pictures.-THANKS
If this is the same Army hospital near Pleiku AFB, it played an important role for a most memorable Christmas...1967...sang in a Christmas cantata at the air base chapel twice that day...attended a talent show at the base theater...then a number of us from the base chapel were transported to the hospital to sing Christmas carols to the wounded and sick...
I had two high school friends with the 4th, also during Tet '68!
I also know a guy that was an O.R. Tech at the 71st during that time. He was there when they built the swimming pool for the wounded. I closed it up due to malaria problems.
I was in the 67th Evac Hospital, Qui Nhon. However, in January of 1972, and in anticipation of the coming offensive (Easter Offensive), we reduced the operational size of the 67th to @ MASH strength and sent some personnel with under 6 months in country to Pleiku. There we occupied a portion of the buildings of the former 71st and set up our surgical hospital. Shortly afterward, there was a company of the 1st Cav., AirMobile also assigned to that site.
@sonofkerry I posted another note on the 67th site on YouTube. Forgot to mention that at a Vietnam Vet reunion there was a guy that had traveled to Vietnam, and the Pleiku area. Had numerous photos, as well. Thought the old hospital may be a leprosarium now.
Some of these pictures are indeed of the Army Evacuation Hospital in Pleiku....but the hospital was the 71st Evac. , not the 67th. The 67th was in Qui-Nhon. Did you do a tour in Pleiku?
@4711StGermain I was stationed in Pleiku for most of 1972 with the 560th MP Co. 'Roadrunners'. It still looked pretty much the same when I was there. Thanks for posting this & welcome home, brother.
I was with the 43rd Signal Bn (70) just down the hill from the hospital...Later in 70 the 71st was moved out, and we used the building as a barracks.
shubop47 6 months ago
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whateveyoulike60 7 months ago
Thanks for the posting. this is the 71st Evac near Pleiku. I spent 30 days there with malaria in early 68. Late Jan. and Early Feb. We got hit hard at Tet with 7 direct rocket hits and enemy within the perimeter. I was scared and unarmed. A nurse named Jeanette Wolfe journaled her experience and brought it all back to me a few years ago. Welcome home.
darkwingthedog 9 months ago
@darkwingthedog The 71st did do a lot of good. I went thru there as a CO medic in its final yr. By then the frat-party REMF's got into alot of dope, too much booze & sex, racial tensions. The Army & some of the 71st was a mess. The war was by then a mess. Took the Army & many of us a long time to get right again. Meanwhile grunts suffered, as usual. I 'profiled' as many as I could to the States with medical transfers. Breaking rules? Sure, but what're they going to do - send me to the 'Nam~!?
4711StGermain 1 month ago
I was in Pleiku during 1968 - 815th Engineer Brg. - sure brought back memories of engineer hill barracks and I did remember several of the guys in the pictures.-THANKS
cowboycjn 11 months ago
If this is the same Army hospital near Pleiku AFB, it played an important role for a most memorable Christmas...1967...sang in a Christmas cantata at the air base chapel twice that day...attended a talent show at the base theater...then a number of us from the base chapel were transported to the hospital to sing Christmas carols to the wounded and sick...
ProfKoldenhott 1 year ago
I had two high school friends with the 4th, also during Tet '68!
I also know a guy that was an O.R. Tech at the 71st during that time. He was there when they built the swimming pool for the wounded. I closed it up due to malaria problems.
russ71able 1 year ago
I was in the 67th Evac Hospital, Qui Nhon. However, in January of 1972, and in anticipation of the coming offensive (Easter Offensive), we reduced the operational size of the 67th to @ MASH strength and sent some personnel with under 6 months in country to Pleiku. There we occupied a portion of the buildings of the former 71st and set up our surgical hospital. Shortly afterward, there was a company of the 1st Cav., AirMobile also assigned to that site.
russ71able 1 year ago
@russ71able I was a medic with the 4th Infantry at Camp Enari near Pleiku in 1967
and transported patients daily to the 71st Evac. during '67-68. That hospitals saved countless lives during this period. God Bless them.
sonofkerry 1 year ago
@sonofkerry I posted another note on the 67th site on YouTube. Forgot to mention that at a Vietnam Vet reunion there was a guy that had traveled to Vietnam, and the Pleiku area. Had numerous photos, as well. Thought the old hospital may be a leprosarium now.
russ71able 1 year ago
Some of these pictures are indeed of the Army Evacuation Hospital in Pleiku....but the hospital was the 71st Evac. , not the 67th. The 67th was in Qui-Nhon. Did you do a tour in Pleiku?
4711StGermain 1 year ago
@4711StGermain I believe my dad was in the 67th in Qui-Nhon as well from October 1966 to August 1967. Were you stationed in the 67th?
pnang111 1 year ago
@4711StGermain I was stationed in Pleiku for most of 1972 with the 560th MP Co. 'Roadrunners'. It still looked pretty much the same when I was there. Thanks for posting this & welcome home, brother.
afireguy52 10 months ago