Motor Transport
Some of my outfit (11th Motors) would come into 1/1's AO on convoys. Most of what was at your base was probably from 1st Motors. Most of the guys who drove 1/1 vehicles were attached to 1/1 or were actually in 1/1. Most of the comm drivers were also your comm operators. -Jim Rooth, 11th Motors
I was with 1st Motor Transport, 1st Marines, Alpha company, also know as T-1. Came up on Operation Peagasus and were on board during the rest of the life as Khe Shan, convoys, security, etc. When we left we closed the base down. -Randy Vanlandingham, USMC, Sgt
I was with "B" Co.1st Motors 70-71, brought the outfit home when Nixon pulled us out. We were Spread from the Dy Lok pass, Marble Mountain, hill 37,42 and 52, if I remember correctly. Most of the
battalion personnel, were transferred to state side units, for discharge or duty just before the
embarkation at Danang harbor for our return to San Diego, then Camp Pendleton. Seems like there was only about 10 or 12 of us aboard ship among the engineers that came back at that time.
- Daryl Harvey
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In 1969, two Rat Patrol jeeps would run between the Battalion rear (LZ412), Ha Dong bridge and 1st Mar Regiment. - photo from Terry Applebee |
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Motor T area August '69 after mortar attack -photo from Dan Sea |
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What a box mine can do to a 'DUECE INA HALF''. The picture looks out of focus, I was still shakin'. - photo from Ray Earley |
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Boozhoo Marine; that's Ojibway for hello. I was in Bravo co.(t2) 1st. motors 67-68. I drove for the resupply Dien Ban. The mudflats was a scary place. I think we got hit every time we went in there. I had a lot of friends in 1/1. I was their 'scrounger' and would beg borrow or find what I could for them. We moved the regt. north in 1967 and I made the Quang Tri-Con Thien runs daily. Some days with no 46s flying, I would pick up the body bags and take these Marine heroes on their last ride to 'graves' at Dong Ha. This affected me deeply as I had known some of these Marines. I think about them everyday. TET68, Hue I got as far as the M.A.C.V. compound; didn't get out until the Bn. cleared South Hue. Migwitch and Semper Fi brothers.- still a P.F.C. Ray Earley |
