Charlie Troop 1st Squadron 9th Cavalry Regiment

Charlie Troop 1/9th Cavalry Jim Hohman: The Battle of Hoa Tan

March 1, 2014

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY HEADQUARTERS, 1ST CAVALRY DIVISION (AIRMOBILE) Office of Information and History APO San Francisco 96490 AVDAIN 7 August 1967 SUBJECT: Unit Historical Reports TO: SEE DISTRIBUTION 1. The attached is one of several unit historical reports prepared by the 1st Cavalry’s Office of Information and History. 2. […]

Tagged: 1st Bn 35th Inf, Battle of Hoa Tan, Blues, C Troop 1/9 Cav, Cpt Cecil Schrader, Gay Giep Mountains, Jim Hohman, LT Clinton Carter, LT James Grissom, Lt. Leftwich, Major Bagnal, SFC Gonzalas, SFC Samuels, SP/4 Claud Burns, SSG Edward Kaneshiro, White Phosphorus Grenade

Posted in: Charlie troopers and Memories, Jim Hohman - Battle of Hoa Tan

Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge

December 26, 2013

My wife, Carol, and I went to Washington, D.C. on 12th of December, 2013. The trip had a two fold purpose. Our main reason for going was for Carol to receive the Belgium Fourragere 1940 from the Belgium Ambassador in honor of her father, Clyde E. Roller. During the “Battle of the Bulge” his unit, […]

Tagged: 212th volks Grenadier Regiment, 4th Infantry Division, Arlington National Cemetery, Army Register Nurse, Battle of the Bulge, Belgium Fourragere 1940, Berdorf Luxembourg, Company F 12th Regiment, Dorothy Barre, Francis Chesko, Hope Kirkendall, Sauer River, Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Trench foot, World War II Memorial

Posted in: Battle of the Bulge

Charlie Troop Reunion October 2013 – St George Island, Florida

October 13, 2013

a href=”https://patrickbieneman.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/dsc08173.jpg”> Phill Merritt and Jerry Duckworth[/caption]The October Charlie Troop Reunion is now over. I expected 20 and we had 34. A great time was had by all. We had four members of Charlie Troop make their first Reunion. Mike LaChance Blue Platoon Leader from 69/70. Robert (Rob) Struck Blue India 69/70. Larry Oestringer Blue […]

Tagged: Charlie Troop, Florida, Pigeon Forge, Reunions, St George Island

Posted in: Reunions

Marsha (Dell) Thaler 5th Grade Class 1966

July 4, 2013

I went onto the 1st Cavalry (www.1cda.org) website and found a post in the Guestbook by a Marsha Thaler. Marsha was a 5th Grade teacher at Milnes Elementary School in Fair Lawn, New Jersey in 1966. She gave her class an assignment to write letters to Service Men in Vietnam. Eventually the letters ended up […]

Tagged: Aaron s. Brown, B 2/5th Cavalry, B Co 2nd Bn 5th Cavalry, Barry Young, Dan Watson, Edward Welch, First Cavalry Division, Frank Arnall, Michael T. King, Milnes Elementary school, Miss Dell, Mrs. Marsha Thaler, New Jersey, Paul F. Stabile, Rich Biever, Santo Arena, Wallace Hitchcock

Posted in: Students Hononring Vietnam Vets

Let Freedom Ring – A Lesson the American Youth needs to learn

May 7, 2013

Today May 4th, 2013 I watched a show on “The Pentagon Channel”. I had seen parts of it before and I only caught the majority of it this time. The show was called “The Lesson is Priceless”. It is a story about several WWII soldiers who served in Europe from “D-Day” until the end. Although […]

Posted in: Heroes

1965-1966 Reunion in Branson, Missouri April 2013

April 23, 2013

/> Let me begin this post with this. The men who served in Charlie Troop 1st Squadron 9th Cavalry 1965 – 1966 trained together at Ft Benning , Georgia and took a month long cruise together to get to Vietnam. This was truly a “Family of Brothers”. Friendships were formed as well as trust during […]

Tagged: Billie Williams, Branson Missouri, Charlie Troop 1/9th Cavalry, Don Coshey, Gene Smith, Jim Reid, Patrick Bieneman, Walt Titchenell

Posted in: Reunions

My War Stories by Greg Jayne Crew Chief

March 24, 2013

Camp Evans Ammo Dump Conflagration: It was Ho Chi Minh’s Birthday, May 19, 1968, I was at Camp Evans over in D Co 15 TC Bn as a OH-13S and LOH-6A mechanic. Camp was pretty rough, there was no mess hall, we’d been scouting up C-ratioins for about a month and now we […]

Tagged: Cambodia, Camp Evans, D Co 15th TC Bn, Ho Chi Minh, LAWS, Pyrotechnics

Posted in: Charlie troopers and Memories, Greg Jayne

War Stories by Forrest Frields

March 20, 2013

Forrest Frields was a Scout Pilot in Charlie Troop. This is his story. War stories and PTSD tales are about releasing the demon energy residing within you. In my case and those cases of friends and co-patients of mine – that energy will never go away – at least not completely. Our only salvation is […]

Tagged: Charlie Troop 1/9 Cavalry, Post Traumatic Stree Disorder, PTSD, Scout Pilot, Vietnam, Vietnam War. Forrest Frields

Posted in: Charlie troopers and Memories, Forrest Frields

Buffalo Soldiers – 9th Cavalry

February 26, 2013

On July 28, 1866 the 9th Cavalry Regiment was formed. The regiment was made up of 12 companies formed into 3 Squadrons. Each Squadron had 4 companies. Each company had 4 officers 15 Non-Commissioned Officers and 72 Privates. On AUGUST 3, 1866 a Regiment was made up of Negro (African-American) soldiers. This Regiment was designated […]

Tagged: 1st Cavalry Division, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), 509th Tank Battalion, 9th Cavalry Regiment, Black Soldier, Buffalo Soldier, Negro Soldiers, US Army, World War II, WWII

Posted in: Charlie Troop 1/9 Cav

A Trooper’s Special Request

December 6, 2012

Twas the night before Christmas up in Fiddler’s Green Things were quiet and there were No Cavalry Troopers to be seen I asked the Lord “Where were all the Troopers” and he said to me “A special request had been made and to this I agreed” “A Trooper came up and on bended knees he […]

Tagged: A Trooper's Special Request, Cary-Grove High School. US Marine Corps, Fiddler's Green, Lord, soldier, Special Request, Steed, Vietnam

Posted in: A Soldier's Request