Welcome to the Gia Vuc Website

Check the other Gia Vuc Websites!

Also would like to thank

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SGT Patrick Loughney
(A-331, B-3)3, C-3)
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SGT Stafford "John" Landry Jr (Medic A-104 Ha Thanh)
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Christopher E. McClure, (Cpt, 5th SFGA 8/1968-1/1970)
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Gary Brosch (XO A-104, Ha Thanh Nov 65-Aug 66)
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William O. Freyser (A-246 Mang Buc, April 62)
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Fred Thompson (CW2 174th AHC Shark 7 1970-71)
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SGT Harlow Short Medic (A-5O2/CIDG hospital at Bien Hoa 1969/70)
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Steve Sherman (Radix Press)
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Lew Merletti, A-502 Medic 69/70
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Bob Hensler, Cpt MAT 1-27
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LCpl Ray Rossi Radio Operator,
1st Force Recon Co,
Gia Vuc May-July 1965
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Cpl Les Herring Team leader,
1st Force Recon Co,
Gia Vuc May-July 1965
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Sgt Gary Bowes A-103, Oct 66 to Jan 67
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SSG Bill Howe A-103, March 67 to Mai 67
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Ray Rossi, Team 3, 1st. Force Reconnaissance Co
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Les Herring,
Cpl, 1st. Force Reconnaissance Co
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A-103 XO -
1st Lt William H Chickering III
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A-103 XO,
1st Lt J Perchard
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A-103 C0,
Cpt Dallas L Cox
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A-110 , A-103
CO Cpt Steve Perry
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Mike Meade
(A-103 Intell NCO)
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A-110, A-103
Sgt Paul Lowe (Radio operator)

And many more
who send me e-mails with the encouragements

Welcome to the Gia Vuc Website
home of :
A5/1, A-725, A-729, A-112, A-113, A-103 USSF A-teams.

Gia Vuc camp in November 1970, photo taken by Seabee, Third Class Petty Officer, Dick Holmes.

Dick was part of a MCB 62, H Company (Seabees) which was carrying maintenance work on SF camps in the Central Highlands

<<I think you are right about the SF not being there. We stayed at the SF Team House in the compound and I do recall one SF fellow there and us "Seabees". We went there to work on the air field but the rains came for a few weeks so we could not work on the field due to being too wet. We all came home the end of November, 1970. >>

Dick also worked at Ha Thanh, Tra Bong, Kham Duc and many more.

A-103 was rotated out of Gia Vuc when the camp was handed back to the LLDB in Jan 1969, by late 70, it was under
the Vietnamese 70th Ranger battalion and it looks like a few Special Forces were still in the camp,
has anybody got more information on this, could we trace them????

Guidon from CIDG company 246, Gia Vuc, 1967

Courtesy of Cpt Dallas L Cox

I was so touched by the Video created by Lizzie Palmer that I decided to put a link to it

"Remember Me"

New Gia Vuc story on "After Jan 1969" page

A photographic web-book from SFC Loyd Little,
A-113 senior Medic at Gia Vuc, 1965

I need help from A-729 Team members to identify over 200 photos taken
by SFC Sidney M Donnell

This private site has been created back in 1997 with the help of listed team members
to insure
that their stories as well as their sacrifices will not be forgotten.
This is also my personal tribute to the the men of the
1st, the 5th and the 7th SFG who served in Vietnam.

The website has also grown with the additions of another 4 main area of interest
which will hopefully help the researcher, historian, student, collector into
getting a better understanding of the Vietnam war.

1965

196?

1966-67

1970

Gia Vuc A-camp:

this section only deals with the camp, the teams and its soldiers.
You will also find my personnel tribute to Dale Libby.
He was one of the first supporter of the Gia Vuc website.

I CORPS

French Indochina

in this section of the website you will find pages relating to SF units as well as non SF but most of them relate to the I CORPS. Subjects covered so far are the Mike Force, USSF medics
and their training, the often unknown Special Forces unit: the Well Drillers.

Ha Thanh

This is a new part (June 2008) of the Gia Vuc website. This is the story of Ha Thanh one of Gia Vuc sister A-camp in the I CORPS.

Now

This part relate to what is happening now, Tribute displays, G-V web museum and link, contact and "help needed" pages

an unknown part of the Vietnam war for many! The first Indochina war was fought approximately 15 years earlier by the French. This section will give you an insight into the French war. You will find page on the GCMA (a French SF unit assuming a similar mission to SOG & CIDG program), pages on uniforms, equipment, Hre with the French and Dien Bien Phu.

Just take an instant to remember the Vietnam War K.I.A. and M.I.A.

"WEAR THE BERET PROUDLY, IT WILL BE A MARK OF DISTINCTION AND A BADGE OF COURAGE
IN THE DIFFICULT DAYS AHEAD"

PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY

Gia Vuc Website Team (see also list on LHS)

Cpt Virgil Carter (XO A-103)
SMAJ Dale Libby (SFC Sr Medic A-725) (Who sadly past away in Mai 99
Lieutenant Colonel G Keith Garner (1st Lt , XO A-725)
SP4 Bob Carels (Lt Wpns A-729)
CSM David Klehn (SFC Sr Rad Op A-113/103)
Cpt Willie J Hunter ( SSG A-725)
W.G. Aschenbach (SGT Sr Medic A-103)
James McGlon (SFC Int/Team sgt A-103)
Col (Ret) Stephen M. Perry (A-103 CO Apr 66-Dec 66)
Gary Bowes (Sgt E5 Radio Operator A-103)
Charles Richard Woodson (Chuck/Woody)A-103 Jr Radio Operator
Dominick "Tony" Tantalo A-113 1965 (via his son Dennis)
Loyd Little, Senior Medic E-6 A-113) Sept. 8 - Nov. 2, 1965
SFC Robert Cameron A-113/103 (via a contact, but unfortunately I have now lost touch)
William R. Beal, Jr. LTC, Ret, US Army (1st LT, A5/1 XO, 1962-1963

Please save a payer for our friend who are no longer with us

SMAJ W. Dale. LIBBY, past away in May 1999

Alex Humphrey (5th SFGA, BA TO 1964-65), Past away Feb. 16 2008

If for any reason you ever wanted to part away with anything relating to Gia Vuc and its A-teams,
please get in touch, good price will be paid!

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