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

Wed Apr 1 18:50:56 EDT 2009

Guns,

Like either of us is going to remember the 57 flavors from 40 years ago!!!

Glad you switched the subject before we bored the List of bad food. Speaking of flares I've done a bunch of flares and they are usually idiot proof unless you really mess it up so just make sure your fitting that is leaking is just not lose.

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

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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 3:33:47 PM
Subject: RE: [DeTomaso] NPR P38's & P-51's - Question for the grunts

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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