Med-Evac

I got there in October 1967 and they are as I remember:

Bravo Med - DaNang (Near Marble Mt.)
Charlie Med - Phu Bai
Delta Med - Dong Ha

I never saw Alfa Med but I was told it was near Chu Lai.

"Crazy Joe" Scholle
HMM-363

1st Med

I was in-country from August of 70 until April of 71. We brought the bulk of our medevac's to either 1st Med or the USS Sanctuary. We also dropped some people at the 95th Evac on China Beach. 1st Med was close to 1st Recon if memory serves me right.

In '65-'66 I thought "C" Med was just west of Da Nang(medevaced myself there once.) We also had the NSA hospital just west of Marble. I took head wounds and very seriously wounded there. Then there was a Vietnamese hospital in Da Nang where I would take the ARVN and locals too. Another det was at Ky Ha/Chu Lai, do not remember it's designation. Never did take anyone directly to a ship. Lanny

Repose

Lanny is correct about Da Nang, Repose came to lay off the beach at Dong Ha right at the end of Hastings and stayed up to the rainy season. We (VMO2) only had to make a few trips out to it though (thankfully).

Medevac

I think Crazy Joe has it right. I arrived in-country in Sept 67 and Charlie Med was at Phu Bai. I know that one because I spent 2 days there before being sent south to Da Nang and then to Cam Rahn Bay to the Air Force hospital.

C med

I was there in '66-'67. The ships were the Repose and Sanctuary- landed on both. Don't forget Chief Ford-can't remember which one it was but around Da Nang. I remember the name because for the first month in country I thought it was G-4 until I was " enlightened ". Joe Hanner

orlando ingvold;19938 wrote: In '65-'66 I thought "C" Med was just west of Da Nang(medevaced myself there once.) We also had the NSA hospital just west of Marble. I took head wounds and very seriously wounded there. Then there was a Vietnamese hospital in Da Nang where I would take the ARVN and locals too. Another det was at Ky Ha/Chu Lai, do not remember it's designation. Never did take anyone directly to a ship. Lanny

Charlie med was west of Danang, near hill 327. That's where the 34 crashed that had a mid air with a VMO-2 Huey. We picked up several medevacs north of there, on one of the trips into Charlie med a corpsman ask me 'whose helicopter is that out in the rice paddy?'. The plane was our chase plane that had crashed and we had not even heard anything over the radio. The Huey crashed on one of Danangs runways and everyone survived, no one on the 34survived.

I didn't have a gunner that night, we had an AO on the left side, when we picked up the medevacs the pilot had me drop the rocket pods and the AO off. I don't think we went back and got him, he may still be there waiting to be picked up!!!

Mike Miller VMO-2

Charlie Med

I do not remember if it had an alphabetical name but there was also a Quang Tri Med. On 25 February 1969, while flying as a gunner, we med-evac'd 70 plus Marines from LZ Russell to Quang Tri Med. LZ Russell had been hit by an NVA Sapper Battalion just before dawn. The hill was occupied by 4th Marine Infantry and 12th Marines Artillery. It was unusual for a CH-53 squadron to do med-evacs but we were at Vandegriff to refuel and launch for our first mission for the day when the call came in requesting emergency med-evac for a large number of casualties. Between the two 53's in our section, we evac'd well over a hundred of the Marines off that FSB!

So - if any of you guys remember if Quang Tri Med had an alpha designation, please add a note, but maybe it was just Quang Tri Med!

Semper Fi - Duke Dearing

WIA Drop Off

We dropped a WIA at what I remember was LZ Astor near Vandergrift in February 69.

Wayne Stafford