Veterans

unhappycamper

(60,364 posts) Sun May 6, 2012, 12:45 PM May 2012

For Vietnam veterans at DU:

Did any of you every make a MARS phone call home while you were in Vietnam?

Even more specifically, did you use the MARS station in Cu Chi in 1970? We also had a setup that we could chopper out to firebases in surrounding area.

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For Vietnam veterans at DU: (Original Post) unhappycamper May 2012 OP

I called home on MARS, but it was from Udorn (or maybe Korat??). Three minute limit. Scuba May 2012 #1

For those curious about MARs during Viet Nam. AnotherMcIntosh May 2012 #2

Thanks for the pics. woofless May 2012 #3

I called from Long Binh, and later, with my brother, from Camp Eagle pinboy3niner May 2012 #4

I was in Cu Chi 66-67 jaysunb May 2012 #5

Scuba

(53,475 posts)

1. I called home on MARS, but it was from Udorn (or maybe Korat??). Three minute limit.

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Sun May 6, 2012, 01:01 PM

May 2012

Probably late 1972.

AnotherMcIntosh

(11,064 posts)

2. For those curious about MARs during Viet Nam.

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Sun May 6, 2012, 01:05 PM

May 2012

http://www.marinecorpsmars.com/BarrysSite/USMC%20MARS%20Operations%20in%20Vietnam.htm

woofless

(2,670 posts)

3. Thanks for the pics.

Reply to AnotherMcIntosh (Reply #2)

Sun May 6, 2012, 01:25 PM

May 2012

I was Ground Radio in the AF in '71 and we had that same Collins KWM2A set-up in a radio shack on the military side of Athens airport. We ran calls home all the time. I was in Athens TDY from Turkey, where MARS and all amateur radio was banned. Getting our hands on that equipment in Greece was like liberation.

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)

4. I called from Long Binh, and later, with my brother, from Camp Eagle

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Sun May 6, 2012, 02:20 PM

May 2012

After my little brother arrived in-country and was assigned to my Army division (101st Airborne), we got together and made a call home. To Mom, of course.

jaysunb

(11,856 posts)

5. I was in Cu Chi 66-67

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Sun May 6, 2012, 02:53 PM

May 2012

7th Surgical Blackhorse....no MARS then

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