In reference to Dennis Knight moving that 60 ton tank off the road way.... that D-7 scaled out at 25 tons as I remember. Pretty big job for the little dozer that could! Ha!...Nodof :sleep:

Bill Heflin……my Brother and friend. As soon as someone questioned you about your story of our Orderly Room being blown-up, you drag poor Conforti’s name into the fray. Good try Brother! Before it is over, I don’t doubt you’ll drag other so called “witnesses” into the fracas. You said the story happened after you left Phan Rang….the hole in your story is that Conforti left Vietnam even before you did, so he couldn’t have possibly been there to see it. With your age and all, you are probably confusing the Orderly Room story with something else going on in your head. But don’t let it bother you Bill; it is part of the aging process and it will eventually get all of us. We always did turn to you to lead the way.

The event that I am talking about happened in Phan Rang after I was gone. This is a story that was told to me over the phone by Conforti.

Now thats the good stuff,,...heard about it being the outhouse, and the Top Kick running out the other door with his pants still down miliseconds ahead of the detonation...thaaats what we heard???! Nodof :sleep:

Bill Heflin.….my good brother. What are you talking about? Our orderly room being blown up? I have to ask, are you drunk or on drugs of some sort? Although most good decisions originated there, that was not the orderly room, it was the outhouse. And your fingerprints were all over that event, so I won’t say any more. If you want people to believe your orderly room story, you are going to have to give us more information?

Att a co personal,Does anybody remember the a co orderly room being blown up.

Awesome! Lets get some of these stories out there before they are lost forever. Keep em coming! Welcome home! Nodof. :toast:

we did some work for the infantry.i went back down that way with the armored cav in january a m60 tank hit a mine and blocked the whole road there were rice paddys on both sides my d7 had a little trouble moving that 60 ton m60 tank.

From Mai Loc by the DMZ to Phan Thiet on the southern tip it looks like the 589th can boast of literally covering the whole country. Curious to see how many other Units did that? Maybe the Board Member that is the Historian (If is is not now Denny) could try and find out. Just another tidbit to go in our history!

B Co. also got down by Phan Thiet in the fall of 1969 on a repair Convoy. We hit all 3 Fire Bases between Phan Rang and Phan Thiet and stopped at a blown bridge about 12 Klicks North of Phan Thiet, fixed the By-pass etc. and then headed back North!

Anyway, we were down there building a camp for the Infantry or the Marines , so they could launch a campaign against a buildup of enemy in that area. So thats what we were up to down there.. :toast: Nodof

I did an illustration for Dennie here some time back, of Sgt Gunney dis manteling a 155 howitser round buried in a dirt pile in the middle of the road. The whole convoy sitting at dead stop. The road was already asphalt, Billy had unloaded his D-7 and placed the blade where it would deflect at least some of any explosive force from the booby trap. The dirt pile had a live grenade in it with the pin already pulled, and only the weight of the dirt holding the lever down. Could have lost Gunney right there if he hadnt spotted it in time as the dry dirt fell away . He was feeling around in the pile for wires or other stuff, and as Dennis Knight and I were looking right down at this scene from the Guntruck. A wow moment.

Perry,
I'll do some checking in my notes about the road. For some reason I thought we went down to Phan Theit to do some work but didn't actually have any responsibility on the road.


DP