[DeTomaso] NPR P38's & P-51's - Question for the grunts

Wed Apr 1 18:33:47 EDT 2009

Dog,

They weren't bad. Dehydrated and all you need to do was add hot water (or
cold or warm). I think there may have been 5 or 6 types. 

I completed the brake and clutch hydraulics recently with the help of a
flaring tool I bought from Eastwood. It makes flairs of any kind/size a
piece of cake. I have a single leak to look at though. The left front
caliper is seeping slightly, around a seal I think. Still have to bleed both
systems yet. 

Chuck

From: Mad Dog Antenucci [mailto:teampantera at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 6:11 PM
To: Chuck Adkinson; Ken Green; detomaso at realbig.com; Robert Simpson
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] NPR P38's & P-51's - Question for the grunts

Guns,

I was all over II and III Corp....I remember Tay Ninh Province well....also
Duc Hoa and Bai Trai as well.....if you were hungry anything tastes good....

I got to Nam in '67 and left in '69 and LRRP rations were a new
deal.....like most new deals opinions varied ;-]>
I never saw them in the states before I got to Nam.....I quess they were
better then Vietnamese Pho' and fermented pork or fish.... but absolutly my
best memory in III Corps was coming off a op with my team and stopping at a
MACV base at Duc Hoa (Advisory Team 99) and having a BBQ fresh steak and a
cold beer....that was a very BIG deal and for those guys it was a weekly
regular deal.

Mad Dawg Antenucci 
Team Pantera Racing 

The 1st & still the only vintage race team in open road racing 
www.teampanteraracing.com

  _____  

From: Chuck Adkinson <apache34 at embarqmail.com>
To: Mad Dog Antenucci <teampantera at yahoo.com>; Ken Green
<kenn_green at yahoo.com>; detomaso at realbig.com; Robert Simpson
<R.Simpson35 at Verizon.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 1, 2009 2:41:26 PM
Subject: RE: [DeTomaso] NPR P38's & P-51's - Question for the grunts

Mr. Dog,

In 69-70 my crew and I use to drop off 6 man LRRP patrols for a 6 night
listening watch in the III Corp jungles of Tay Ninh province. 7 days later
or so we'd fly back out for the pick-up. Once in awhile their position would
be compromised and we'd scramble to a siren and go back early 24/7 to pull
their asses out (where the term "shit hit the fan" no doubt originated).
They ate "LRRP rations" while out there and always gave the helicopter crews
what they didn't eat. Good, good stuff. No doubt you remember. 

Chuck Adkinson
A Troop, 1st Squadron, 9th Cav 69/70

-----Original Message-----
From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] On
Behalf Of Mad Dog Antenucci
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 4:52 PM
To: Ken Green; detomaso at realbig.com; Robert Simpson
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] NPR P38's & P-51's - Question for the grunts

You don't think? 

Have any of you slackers ever had to eat C-rats? No, I didn't think so.

I have a bad gunshot scar on my shoulder. Its uglier then I am....The reason
its so ugly is our team medic had to use a P38 to dig the bullet out. I'll
finish the story when I can remember the rest of it. By then it should have
got more interesting.

Mad Dawg Antenucci 

Team Pantera Racing 
The 1st & still the only vintage race team in open road racing 
www.teampanteraracing.com

________________________________
From: Ken Green <kenn_green at yahoo.com>
To: detomaso at realbig.com; Robert Simpson <R.Simpson35 at Verizon.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 1, 2009 1:14:39 PM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] NPR P38's & P-51's - Question for the grunts

I don't think the beans and franks were the hated meal, it was the ham and
limas.  It was widely believed that if you tossed a can of ham and limas to
the kids along the sides of the road in Vietnam, they'd throw it back.

Ken

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--- On Wed, 4/1/09, Robert Simpson <R.Simpson35 at Verizon.net> wrote:

From: Robert Simpson <R.Simpson35 at Verizon.net>
Subject: [DeTomaso] NPR P38's & P-51's - Question for the grunts
To: detomaso at realbig.com
Date: Wednesday, April 1, 2009, 12:36 PM

We used to call them John Waynes.  I grew up on SAC bases from 1967 to the 
early 1980s.  I will never forget the day when the base commissary was 
selling old C rats on pallets, each box of rats was .25 cents each.  I was a

bag boy at the time and bought $10.00 worth of C rats and my dad flipped his

lid when he saw them.

I'll never forget what happened when I opened a can of beans and franks at 
the dinning room table, Dad walked over and yelled "What the 
hell..........beans and MOTHERF***ERS????????"

He proceeded to throw the can into the back yard, beans exploded on the back

fence and the dog was happy and content eating the bright red mess.

Dad was a Korean war vet and was a grunt in Vietnam before enlisting in the 
Airforce.  I deduced he had some bad memories associated with C rats, YA 
THINK?????  LOL

I went to basic in the MRE era (1985)and my 18 year old son is at Ft. 
Benning as I write this and is supposed to attend Air Assault and Airborne 
School and graduates late June.

Bob
3468 

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