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Send your Locator and Reunion notices to Locator, The VVA Veteran, 8719 Colesville Road, Suite 100, Silver Spring, MD 20910. Or email veteranlocator@vva.org or ddevora@vva.org

The Locator and Reunion services are provided without charge.

Looking to get in touch with Steve Hassett or anyone who served with him in the 1/5th 1st Cavalry in Vietnam. He contributed poems to Demilitarized Zones and Carrying the Darkness, which I edited. Contact: Bill Ehrhart, wdehrhart@gmail.com

Searching for Vietnam War veterans who served with professional athletes in-country, including Rocky Bleier, Roger Staubach, Al Bumbry, and Johnny Petraglia, for a book I am writing on that subject. Contact: Bill Brown, 281-451-3658; bbastro@aol.com

Searching for any of the 7 Air Force officers assigned to the Defense Attache Office, American Embassy from April 1974 to 1975. Contact: Jack Roscoe, john.roscoe00@gmail.com

Looking for those who served with the 330th Transportation Co., 765th Trans. Bn., 34th Aviation Group from July 1965-66. Contact: Jim Cooper, jimcooper@cooperhawk.net

Searching for anyone who was on Nui Ba Den Mountain when it was overrun on May 13, 1968. Contact: Glen Smith, 717-682-3835

Looking for anyone who served with the 383rd QM from Sept. 1, 1965, till Aug. 1966. Contact: John Richardson, 504-912-2500

I am looking for Greg Thompson. He was a medic in C Company, 2/12, First Air Cav. In Vietnam in 1970. He was wounded in Cambodia on May 28, and most likely received a Purple Heart. He was from Chicago. Contact: Jack Downing, 713-906-2448; 520 Georg Oaks, Bulverde, TX 78163

Looking to connect with anyone who served from 1965-69 in or around Danang, exposed to Agent Orange. Contact: William Talbott, 828-421-0501; bltalbott1@hotmail.com

I’m searching for Peter Banks, who was a 2nd Lt. in a company of the 5th Maintenance Bn. headquartered in Qui Nhon 1966/67. He was a graduate of Notre Dame. Contact: Case Nelson, g.l.case.nelson@gmail.com

Wanting to reunite with Dennis Oneil from Springfield, Mass., and anyone who served with us in 1965-66 at Bien Hoa. Contact: Bob Tassone, captrjt@gmail.com

Looking for any of the 8 Marines that were on patrol with Sgt. Robert Barham the night of January 22, 1967, west of the Rock Pile. Contact: James Bishop, james@abishop.com

Looking for info or anyone who might have known Rick Crosley, who was with the 716th MB Battalion during 1966-67. Contact: Daryl Achenbach, retcnwsa@gmail.com

For a possible reunion, we are searching for Vietnam War veterans who were recovering from war wounds at the U.S. Naval Air Station Cubi Point or at the Subic Bay Naval Base in the Philippines in 1969 and met with the football star Joe Namath when he led a USO tour that paid a visit there. Also, veterans who met Namath later in the tour at bases in Japan, Okinawa, and Hawaii. Contact Davd Wilkins, wilkinsdavidr@hotmail.com

Searching for anyone I served with in the Army, 330th Aircraft Supply in Vung Tàu 1965-66. Contact: George Hayden, 870-847-5412

Looking for Marines who were stationed in Da Nang Air Wing between Feb. 1970-71 who lived in a Hooch that had a “Snoopy’s Snuffies” sign over doorway. Contact: Walter Nalewicki, wnalewi@gmail.com

I’m searching for men who served with my father, Walter Peters. He was with the 2nd Bn., 94th Artillery, Battery B between 68-69. Contact: Kelley Peters, 610-969-9473; kpeters200780@gmail.com

Searching for anyone who was in Cholon, Saigon, on May 8-9, 1968 and may have seen the body of a journalist in civilian clothes: a tall Westerner wearing a white shirt, black pants, and leather moccasins. Contact: Ricardo Preve, rickpreve1@gmail.com

I would love to find and have a conversation with CWO John Strong. I flew copilot with him from Nha Trang AB to Phan Rang in 1966. He got me a ride back on Air America. One of the best experiences of a lifetime. Want to say thanks. Contact: Gary Plep, camensctr@aol.com

Looking for anyone I served with in Phan Thiet/Whiskey Mtn. in 1971. HHQ 864th Eng. Bn. The unit came home and I later went to the 299th Eng. Bn. until they also left. Contact: Donald Chandler, edc0976@gmail.com

I’m searching for Randy Palubicki, who I served with in Ft. Knox from around April 1969 to September 1970. We were assigned to E Troop, 15th Cav., 194th Armored Bde. and to D Troop, 10th Cav., 194th Armored Bde. Contact: Dario Schiappa, Dario.schiappa@aol.com

I would like to hear from those I served with from the 1st MP Company, 2nd Bde, 1st Infantry Div. from August ‘66 to ‘67. Contact: John Willis, 512-954-4944; jwillis9808@austin.rr.com

I am searching for any graduates of the Infantry Officer Candidate School class 4-68 who were commissioned on January 1, 1968 at Fort Benning. I am especially interested in any of the 30-plus of us who were commissioned as Military Intelligence officers (not by choice) and were trained and sent to Vietnam around May 1968 to be MACV District Phoenix Advisors, AKA District Intelligence Operations Coordination Centers Advisors. Contact: Ken Shuck, kenneth19442000@yahoo.com

I’m searching for those who served in HQ Company, 610 Maintenance Bn., during 1967-68. Contact: Steve Murray, redsoxman@yahoo.com

Searching for D. Giacherio from Michigan, or his brother, former shipmates on the U.S.S. Chilton (LPA 38) in 1970. Contact: Craig Wheeler, 828-358-6202; cpw1400@gmail.com


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