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Private John Fish

Gary Prisk — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 18:55:14 +0000

Private John Fish, also known as Guffey in the award-winning novel by Gary Prisk, titled Digger Dogface Brownjob Grunt, fought Vietnam’s War with 1st Platoon, Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Airborne Infantry, part of the fabled 173rd Airborne Brigade. A brigade that, to this day, has never been stationed on American soil, and is currently headquartered in Italy. Fish is one of the few…

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Get Fat if You Can

Gary Prisk — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 20:43:42 +0000

503d VIETNAM Newsletter / Mar.-Apr. 2016 – Issue 66 Delta Company Night Laager The Tiger Mountains, 2340 Hours. From converging streams of green tracers to napalm on a cloud-filled morning, nothing generated fear like a search-and-destroy mission under a Ranger moon. Illuminated by a sense of isolation, memories worked in concert, jarring a man’s being from one halting sound to the nest. Capt.

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Does it matter where they came from?

Gary Prisk — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 21:20:42 +0000

Does it matter where they came from? Medics, I mean. They were an odd lot, seemingly detached from the realities of infantry combat in Vietnam, in 1968, in the Central Highlands, and coastal rice paddies. Some professed to be non-combatants, claiming the weapon they carried was just a prop, foisted upon them by the Headquarters Company First Sergeant… “The bastard even made me carry ammunition.”…

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For Sergeant Ernest Asbury

Gary Prisk — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 15:26:54 +0000

My friend Ernest Asbury died a few weeks ago in his bunker in Joshua Tree, California… his bride Marjorie was at the store. Sergeant Asbury died of a broken heart… A heart minced by years and years of recall… of years and years of wondering why the hell he ever walked up Hill 875… of years and years of asking himself how he could have gotten so far from his family… so far from his home.

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2/503d Photo of the Month ~ 1968

Gary Prisk — Sat, 29 Dec 2018 21:00:00 +0000

503d VIETNAM Newsletter / Nov.-Dec. 2018 – Issue 83 Captain Gary Prisk (Colonel Ret), seen here in center of photo in 1968, when he served as CO (C/D/2/503), enjoying coffee with SFC Oscar Cruz, just north of the Tiger Mountains during a brief respite from battle, with a couple of his “Hill People” in background taking a needed break. His fellow officers good-naturedly called him “The Teenage…

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Chapter Thirty-Two, Stubbs

Gary Prisk — Sat, 15 Dec 2018 19:57:59 +0000

Morning brought three cloverleaf patrols and Leech Dick inspecting the speed bump on his hog. In time, a tracer would have grazed his pecker and shattered his radio. The veterans at the American Legion Hall would laugh on cue, demanding a picture to verify the account. “Captain, Uncle’s on the hook.” “Charlie Six, this is Five Yankee.” Uncle was stretching a serious tone, a cautious base with…

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A Hippie with a Warrior’s Heart

Gary Prisk — Sun, 10 Apr 2016 20:15:17 +0000

Raised on the beaches of Santa Barbara, the son of a paratrooper who served with the 82nd Airborne Division during World War II, Harvey Knapp was a young man who yearned to be a paratrooper. If he could have worn a swim suit and sandals in Vietnam he would have. A man gifted with an uncommon sense of his surroundings, his wry chuckle and ease of movement masked an intensity derived from personal…

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