Interview with John Henningson - Vietnam War Veteran

the army what was your highest rank second first lieutenant several many locations in I Corps the no northernmost part of South Vietnam at the start of your service were you drafted I was I got my draft notice I delayed going in so that I could finish my commitment to teach in high school until the end of the year and I also at the same time got a commitment that I would be enabled to go to Officer Candidate School whether I made it through or not was on my own but so that I delayed my entry from the draft by enlisting for almost six months and with those two caveats well they were quite a shock actually at that time the cutoff of the draft was age 24 I received my notice 8 days before I was 24 so that was somewhat of a shock I didn't expect it I also had a critical skills deferment for teaching high school but this was right after the Tet Offensive and I guess the need was high enough that they had to reach down and grab me so I was shot I was also had spent a couple of years out of college I wasn't in the best physical shape so entering into basic training was quite a challenge for me the I did basic training in Fort Leonard Wood Missouri and mostly it was over 17 and 18 year old Hoosiers and I was 24 and so they immediately called me pops but I was lucky because we we work together and they helped me get through it so it was hard though it was early October I don't exactly remember it's in my paperwork when I reported that I don't remember exactly it was somewhere probably around the 10th to the 12th of October I had gifts many men horrible experience is not necessarily pleasant it was very cold and damp in Missouri at that time just southwest of the central central part in the hills we had not heavy snow but it was great it was rainy and cold and I was sick a great deal of the time as for many people but I had several ear infections and I chose to try and ride them out because I didn't want to get recycled and extend my time so it probably caused some damage to my ears by doing that with the infections but I made it through that was the worst cold and prevalence of illness everyone was coughing it was like an pneumonia award or something throughout the whole time I guess the hardest thing that I recall is also the physical nature of it I was not physically strong particularly my upper body strength I been away from any sort of decent exercise for some time I was frankly quite soft so regaining that strength and I did regain that strength was quite a challenge but some seven or eight months later when I completed officer Kennedy at school there are pictures in my blog and I'm looking pretty good so it was quite a transition from when I went in yes well no no I'm sorry I misspoke I when I enlisted I they would not guarantee me they guaranteed me the to go to Officer Candidate School they let me choose which Officer Candidate School I wanted to go to but they didn't guarantee that so my basic training and advanced individual training which are roughly three months each were at Fort Leonard Wood because that's the home of the Corps of Engineers and the training center for them so my basic training particularly my advanced individual training was with respect to engineering combat engineering building bridges building bunkers defusing mines laying minefields making roads and that sort of thing so my anticipation was I would get some engineering background out of that service so I was at Fort Leonard Wood for six months in those two segments basic training and advanced individual training then I went to Fort Sill because they after holed up about 30 days they changed my orders to go to into the artillery they needed artillery officers more than they needed Engineering officers and so I ended up at Fort Sill Oklahoma going through artillery Officer Candidate School I did not know it at the time but of the four Officer Candidate School the artillery school is the hardest it has the greatest fallout rate the infantry is on the order of at that time the order of a third are not commissioned because they fall out or we are recycled the armor is slightly higher about 40% but the attrition rate and engineering is about 45% but the attrition rate in the artillery officer Gannon each school was over 50% less of my class of I think we started with somewhere it's in my book but somewhere around a hundred and fifty let's use round numbers and in about seventy or Commission less in half received a commission with their class so it was pretty tough not by name no I recall some of them probably died I actually I do in basic training the head drill instructor was sergeant Robeson very and to say he was a beautiful tall black man he had a back like a head steel rain rod of it but he was fair but very firm he had several assistants what they call shake-and-bake sergeants who had done a tour in Vietnam came back and decided to stay in and they would immediately made a sergeant even if they were a private or a corporal when they left and they were in very good shape and they ran us and ran us and Ramos because that's the best way of losing weight so we ran everywhere very little marching and mostly running so I remember though that person that personality sergeant Robeson in Officer Candidate School I find it harder to remember individual and remember individual candidates with me in my class but in the supervisory role I don't remember any of them I I can see them the toughest ones were the upperclassmen there were three grades and you were under class or middle class and upper class they had a red tab on their shoulder they were the Redbirds and they were the roughest honest they were really tried to break us and it was at the time I didn't understand it I understood physical exercise I understood metal from the standpoint of understanding your training and what you have to do but here the objective was admittedly to try to get get you to fail to try and get you to say this is too much I went out was mental harassment today that is hard to even imagine today but it wasn't until I was in combat and I realized that the whole purpose was to give you so much harassment that you could still do your duties still get your job done even though down inside you were terrified or or overcome with the surroundings you could focus and get it done and I know of instances when I had to call in artillery under fire with a radio antenna sticking up above my head and I was able to do it just coolly and clearly and accurately which was the most important because if you made a mistake and it landed in the wrong grid square it could cause serious injury to your own people and not necessarily the enemy so it had a purpose though I didn't understand it at the time I thought it was just obscene harassment let's see about five months I guess I believe in October of 68 into basic and was commissioned the first week in August in 69 so that's seven that's about nine months solos now it's about five months and 25 months two and a half so two and a half months in basic two and a half months in advanced individual training and the balance of that time wasn't an Officer Candidate School no there was no choice or it was wherever the need was and that continued throughout my whole service so I just received orders to go to for trial in Kansas and it was a Tillery Italian of something would say there were danes they were self-propelled artillery pieces and that's what my first assignment was a very challenging assignment for a number of reasons which I could enumerate like that was it really showed that my training had done very well tell me about your first days when he checked in well I was married actually I was married when I was when I was drafted so the the difficulty was housing initially they didn't warn me about that and so first housing was basically motel and we even though I was an officer and it was probably 2 or 3 months in that hotel before I got on base housing which was lovely I was terrific to be on base Devin my wife Whitney was wonderful but I I pretty much worked 6 and sometimes 7 days a week the initially I was assigned to an artillery battery which is a subunit of artillery battalion we have the responsibility for operations and maintenance of six self-propelled one five five howitzers and there's a lot of maintenance mechanically there normally an artillery battery has a battery commander who's a captain several a battery executive officer was usually a first lieutenant so he has some time behind them and then three platoon leaders who are usually brand new second lieutenants who are in the in the field responsible for two of the guns and the sections in those guns or they may act as forward observers out on the firing range in my case there were only two of us the battery commander was a captain and myself a brand new second lieutenant it turns out unfortunately that my battery commander just come back from a tour with the Black Horse Regiment in Vietnam he clearly suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder he I think it was pretty well known that he was an alcoholic as a result of that and so much of the operation of the whole battery was my responsibility because he was often not available so I learned very quickly what became my motto and that is that I may be the officer and I may not be the smartest the most knowledgeable person in my unit and so I immediately went the first sergeant and I said for sergeant no I'm brand new I at this you've been at a long time you got white hair you're stiff as a ramrod you know there your way around here so you're gonna keep me informed about what we have to do because you know how to do it and get it done it'll be my responsibility if it goes wrong I'll be in blame but I have to rely on you when we have to work as a team and that was my introduction to being an officer in the Army actually and it worked out terrific so I think I worked at the battery for about six months including field exercises where we went out and trained and and shot our guns it was was very interesting in that as I said normally there are close to half a dozen officers in an artillery battery in my case that was generally the battery commander wasn't there and it was me and if you can imagine you're firing these guns they have miles of range and a third pointed in the wrong direction that end up in the next town not in the range where it's supposed to not in the open and normally what's supposed to happen is the battery commander isn't over well charge you they fire directional officer who is in m113 half-track sort of vehicle that has the plotting tables and equality electronic and equipment and radios to figure out once a fire Michigan was in plotted on the maps and figure out what the azmuth is the height of the barrel what the direction is what charged on that on it because you may have each artillery state shell may have seven little bags of powder let's say sometimes you're charged two sometimes you're charged seven if you wanted to go a long way and you have to check and make sure is the map and in between that it's going to hit so its trajectory will clear any intervening terrain my predicament was it was only me usually there's three or four officers checking everything from a fellow making the original computation to the battery commander overall charge to the platoon leaders on every two guns to the battery executive officer who make sure lost six tubes are lined up in the same direction well it was only made so the typical fire mission I'd get the mission in the fire Direction center I would oversee the plot and check to make sure it was correct based on my math skills and trigonometry knowledge and certain charts that you would use slide rules basically because was law manual there was no computer at that time to make the calculations then I would run outside and they'd give the solution for the guns I'd have to run down and make sure the proper settings were on each of the six guns and then I'd run but through it all again as the safety officer who was supposed to be an independent independent check but I had to check myself and then I'd stand back as the executive officer and say fire so the amount of responsibility was incredible and the risk of doing something wrong and someone being injured weigh very heavily on me but it showed that my training had worked I was able to work through that and still keep us straight my mind in its right place and that went well for those five or six months well the attrition in the artillery was particularly high in Vietnam and the next thing I knew after only six months as a 5-month says the second lieutenant they reached down and tapped me and said we have a big exercise that we're going to be called to go to over in Germany next late summer early fall and our Italian intelligence officer is leaving this is the captain slot I'm still a second lieutenant and they said we're gonna transfer you and make you the intelligence officer and I said oh okay and they said that's the good news the bad news is we're having a parent inspection excuse me by fifth army headquarters and all the records have to be correct you have to make sure that I didn't even know what the records were have you have the right documentation that if we have a document somewhere it says we have that document that has been checked in who checks it out day to day basis if they need to look at it that's going to be your responsibility so I did what I always do I went to the top commissioned a noncommissioned officer who was a First Sergeant with six stripes and I said top you know I'm brand new this is a new job to me I haven't got a clue but we're gonna get it done you just have to fill me in and and we'll do whatever we have to do to get done and by golly we passed that CMMI the highest score that they made in a long time not all do to me but we have a wonderful battalion commander Colonel ifile and so two or three months later they said we're losing our special weapons officer who is responsible for all the nuclear records themselves and for all the training for handling because the 155 is nuclear capable in fact its mission was designed to go to Europe and plug the gap but that's called the full Fulda gap in Germany where the Russians might come pouring over the border we still thought in those terms in the early seventies and that's what our reforge or exercise was going to be in the fall and the special weapons officer was leaving so I had to make sure that all the training was up-to-date that all the vehicles would meet the standards for a nuclear inspection and that special things like what you did if you're traveling in the United States or anywhere with your nuclear rounds in place what you had to do to provide security which was the main concern so another new job now in nine months as a second lieutenant and this is another captains position different one but I they didn't replace the intelligence officer I just was doing both jobs that had been to captain's jobs now in the second lieutenant doing the job of two captains well by golly we passed that the next inspection as well and I will say as a result my battalion commander gave me a rank of rating on my individual efficiency report of 100 which is virtually unheard of anywhere in the military and he was a letter saying what an exceptional job I had done I didn't know it at the time I was just working my ass off but anyway unfortunately for me now I've been told in January that I was not going anywhere I was staying with the second of the seventh artillery because they needed me over in Germany I had been trained to do all of this stuff with regard to nuclear weapons and intelligence and that was critical and my orders were going to be frozen I was not in leave the second and seventh in Fort Sill I was born to Germany well I managed to with that exuberance and good news my wife and I somehow managed to have a pregnancy developed and then when she was six months pregnant I got word that well we thought we could keep it what we can't they give you in Vietnam more so I went to Vietnam in spite of all the protestations of my battery my battalion commander Lieutenant Colonel and division commander was a colonel the army said no we need him Vietnam so I left for Vietnam with my wife seven months pregnant and that wasn't fun so that that was my stateside do no no it was a different unit the second of the seventh was going there their assigned mission was to be ready to be transported there were we didn't have to transport the guns they had guns over in Germany that would waft bald but the unit would go to to Germany and then take over and go through this exercise which was considered a very important Cold War exercise so they were on a mission to do that but I was asked to do something else and go to Vietnam so when you different unit when you transfer to Vietnam what was well I had 30 days not quite 30 days leave before I went to Vietnam so I visited all my family and I had commercial flight status but money was very short so my brother was in the Air Force he had served in Vietnam in 65 66 actually and he was in in Dover Air Force Base so I I said you think I could hop a ride on one of the c-130s to California and save some money rather than spend my allotment for on the air ticket commercial and then I fly commercial to Vietnam so it might not seem like a lot but that was a couple hundred dollars that my wife was able to keep rather than spending on on an airplane ride and so I I flew in the back of a c-130 noisy wind blown through but it was fine I couldn't sleep not that I wanted to sleep where I was going I wasn't thinking about sleep so it was it was fine they took care of me I got coffee and crew chief took care of me and my brother wasn't flying it was another officer that flew the plane in kohada but they treated me very nice and dropped me off and the next day I flew commercial yeah yeah pretty much the next day I flew commercial the Okinawa I think we stopped and then on to consummate in Vietnam I forget what the plane was but it was a commercial chartered flight a cattle car every seat filled and very very quiet well everyone says I think pretty much the same thing we land of that constantly at fort Force Base that benoît and there's a that's the center where all people entering in the army entering Vietnam are then signed to various units what you're a member is I get off the plane and the heat and humidity wear enough to make you fall all over just unless you've been there you wouldn't think it could get that hot especially on the tarmac where it's all paved but the second thing you notice is this terrible ugly smell which turned out to be the biggest smell of burning the waste from latrine because there was no flush toilets or anything it was just a outhouse and they mix diesel fuel into a cut-off petroleum barrel and that's where the waste was and that smell from then on for the next 11 months it became a very common smell but those are the two things I really was i well there were actually barracks they're pretty much the same most of yet Nam at major facilities at that time remember this is 69 and no 70 so if they had moved a lot of units into more permanent installations because in 66 67 in early 68 it was considered the temporary mission no unexpectedly be there for as long as we were so they say they had started building actually wooden structures and so there were barracks and mess halls and so I had the major bases and they were typically a what might be called the squad a would hold maybe a dozen people half walls then screening and a sandbag roof there were wooden panels that flopped down over the screening wouldn't stop anything I don't know why they were there at all that they were hinged panels so we were we and others who were reporting in would go to into this Center and await our assignment and they take all of our papers and take all of our basically our personal things were locked up they said you won't need this anymore anything that we brought and we were given a receipt for it and then we waited and I met two people who I had graduated from Officer Candidate School with surprisingly we weren't in scene unit in the States but we all went over at the same time you were all targeted at the same time and so we had kind of a reunion probably drank more that night than we should out knowing that it might be the last that we drink for a while and took about three or four days before I got my orders and I was going to the Americal division of an eye color whose main headquarters wasn't true lie and so in three or four days I got on a flight and flew to July which is on the ocean the South China Sea about two-thirds of the way up to coast no that was that was that I think it was a twin-engined I forget what the designation is but the twin-engine transport plane and when you chew on it you want to know it's a series of reassignment so I went from the central overall army reassignment basis I was assigned to a division which was the Americal division 24 26th Infantry Division values and there I again had to wait to see what unit I was going to go to within the America Division they also gave an orientation to Vietnam with things like malaria and various diseases that you might be susceptible to scorpions leeches all the little critters that would bother you poisonous snakes and enough to make you want to go home yeah remember a demonstration on using a repatriated or captured in a Vietcong who they were telling about how they could sneak through a tangled mess of wire and still get through and you'd never know it and we're sitting in the bleachers facing this wire and it's getting to be dusk and the instructor sergeant is telling us about these sappers who come in with a satchel charge and control it in the middle of your couch so you had to be very aware out at the perimeter and all of a sudden this Vietnamese and just a loincloth stands up and no one had noticed him at all he crawled underneath about Oh 15 yards of tangled barbed wire and wasn't able to get through without anyone even noticing them and pop up right in front of us so it was a good example of what can happen so there was probably about a week of training and then I got my orders to the 30 82nd artillery at Rock Hill which is about an hour north of jewell I near a little town called Tam key and i thought that i might get a helicopter right up there but we went up route 1 ql1 and there i saw the aftermath of some of the tet activities bridges down the railroad you could see the the tangled rails had been blown up and interdicted by by the enemy but I also got a first real look because I had been on bases up until this point driving up the road and I was at first I was saying we're just me and this corporal or whatever is driving a Jeep through civilian territory what happens oh no it's secure they they would say no problem but it gave me a chance to see the countryside and and the rice planning and women carrying loads of rice and things that I couldn't carry I'm gonna stick over there backward that they balanced the churches and pagodas so it was a very interesting trip and then we showed up at Park Hill which was the headquarters of the 32nd artillery and that's where you know normally the assignment is you go immediately into the field as a forward observer with the infantry and that role is probably the most challenging and dangerous that an artillery officer can pursue because you're embedded with an infantry unit you have to be up in front to tell what's going on you've got radios all around you and in all of that you have to call any artillery accurately a long time but in my case it turned out that the battalion commander saw my records from the States saw that he was one of the people who told me that it was almost impossible that I was gotten a 100 I efficiency report and therefore he had a job for me and I said what's that he said well this is that Colonel Lieutenant Colonel I was the commander of the 32 82nd artillery he said we have a inspection of all of our motorized equipment and coming up in two months and we'd never passed one in the three years we've been in Vietnam and if I don't pass this one probably not gonna go any further in my career he said so I'm gonna make you motor officer because the motor officer in charge of the repair of all of our mechanized equipment including the trucks that haul our guns the guns themselves make sure we have the right inventory of parts and all of that and so I'm gonna make your motor officer I said motor officer where is that it says right here they're gonna be right here so I said I'm not gonna be a forward observer so he turns me over to the ward officer who was there also a commissioned officer but not not uh it's a different plane warrant officers are different from right to regular officer core and it was a very experienced chap so together he and I we started looking at the records and they were completely all screwed up there was no train of responsibility because the way to pass this is a haven't got the part you have to have a requisition in for the part if you don't have a requisition in for the part then you have to then you're gonna you're gonna fail so we went through the first thing was go through all the paperwork and find out where our soft spots were and also what the status was of every truck every Jeep every piece of every artillery piece if they weren't in working order why not what part did they need and we probably spent the next month and a half writing requisitions just paper paper paper paper and finally we got to the point where it would also be negative if we were less than operational which was I forget what it is but some percentage of the equipment had to be operational and we weren't there there were certain parts that were missing so I said we've got the requisitions in the warrant officer said that that they don't count as opposed to have a certain percentage of our equipment operational regardless and or sweet and I'd like to do it on time so you said we're gonna have to break the rules I said what does that mean he says well you took me out back and showed me that he had a big truck and it was full of parts not necessarily the parts we needed he said we have to start an exercise of treating our parts for finding people who have the parts we need and we have something mainly I said why would they do that because they could get quite short said well we have a sweetener and he took me to another truck and he had stockpiled several cases of Johnnie Walker Black Label Scotch which was the coin of the realm in the Army in Vietnam and he said will sweeten the deal with some Johnnie Walker Black Black Jack and so I said well you've been around this longer than I have once again I said I'll be responsible but I've got to rely on what what works because we're deep in a hole so we bartered and begged and stole yeah well you stole stuff and did the best we could and then we took our truck full of parts and put it on the road and said don't come back for three days and so that truck just drove down the tool I drove around when everywhere but where it was supposed to be and we rode orders that it was supposed to be picking stuff up and so on so we had the command maintenance and material inspection and by golly we passed and my record was unbroken I was able to do things people hadn't been able to do and I'm not a good paperwork guy but I guess I can get people to work for me pretty well and so we passed the CCM I and less than a week later oh the other thing is my wife gave birth in I should remember the data exactly October 13th I think it was 70 my son bill and that was wonderful and I even got to talk to on the radio telephone to her which is a joke in itself because you had to operate like a radio so you're on the phone working through what they call the Mars system which is volunteer system of phones and radio and but when you say say hello dear over how are you over and you can't use it like leaves in your radio so I did get to talk to her briefly and less than a week later I got orders that I was going to the field as a forward observer not in one of the units that may my artillery battalion usually supports but rather I went down south to very near where a collie or the massacre happened that me like just a little bit west of there west of mine my and it turns out that I got flew by helicopter first to Chu Lai and then I was helicoptered out to Charlie Company 1st and 52nd Infantry and it was the first of the 14th artillery that was supporting them not the 30 the 82nd I saw a different battalion so I was totally unknown and out of my element but I get flown I get flown into Chu Lai and I'm told there was a serious misadventure with the headquarters of Charlie first at 52nd and you're needed as an emergency replacement for the four deserve and that's all they told me so I grabbed my band blur of ammo my little walks act and water poncho and got on the next helicopter and taken about 20 minutes to be told hello goodbye got a helicopter and he landed about half an hour ride I'm a little desolate hill west of Queen nine and there isn't an officer to be seen just a bunch of enlisted men sitting there ejected some we've been trying totally something had happened and so finally I think was the first sergeant came in who was checking the perimeter of this little barren hill it wasn't a standard place to be but it happened to be open for helicopters and I said top what happened he said well I wasn't here I was in the rear but the command unit tripped a large booby trap and they killed the company commander the 3rd platoon leader the chaplain and three or four enlisted men and wounded seven others and they're all gone he said you're the new florid observer and there'll be a new new captain infantry command a company commander and a new 3rd platoon leader and they should be in shortly and so that was my introduction to the field we they flew in and the captain and I had a brief inter inter interview and he said I hope you know he's doing because this we're both gonna be thrown into a difficult situation not only is in a bad area with a lot of booby traps but the men of course know they've had a terrible loss and we've got to try and pull them back together and get them as a working unit and so about a half hour later we gallon helicopters and through combat assault into the same area that they had been in the third Platoon the remnants of the circle tomb and I spent the next mmm about a month and a half as a as a forward observer with that infantry unit and it seemed like every day one somebody and that company was wounded or killed by a booby trap that booby traps were everywhere and what I came away from that is not be able to justify with Kali did when he when he did what he did and as people did what they did but understood the frustration of having an enemy that in the daytime it could be a kid on a water buffalo and at night when you follows you all day long and this literally happened to us a child on a water buffalos ostensibly selling us warm cokes but disappeared at dusk and the next morning there were booby traps on the same trails that we came in on the night before because kid went home and told his parents or his uncle or his brother they slither out in the dark and planted booby traps on every point of egress out of our night position hoping to catch us and never rarely have ever had a face-to-face firefight with the enemy it was all booby traps and booby traps booby traps so I can understand how frustrating that would be so that was my first real combat assignment as a forward observer I did call in artillery once or twice but generally the one time we really needed artillery we were in contact we had caught a bunch of bad guys in the Smallville of three or four huts and we were pinned down and so I called in a fire mission they were taking fire from the huts themselves straw huts and I was told to wait and it turned out that the province chief denied our request for fire they had they could say that it was a populated area and we couldn't shoot and it was populated but there were all bad guys and but we weren't able to shoot so finally they were pinned down so the captain said you know no the only way they were gonna stop this is if we charge that and so we just want got online and firing and charged into the middle of it and I would remember that this day that's the first time I ever had bullets whizzing by me and it's splashing at my feet and the bad guys run out the back door there were three of them and we all shot at them but they were so far away by the time we realized that that I don't think we did anything they just disappeared like wisps of smoke as I say in one of the poems that I wrote so what went on like that we had two other probably interesting events while I was south of quayne night we went we rode out to monsoons within a month and I'll tell you there's nothing like being soaking wet caked at dry and it's 50 degrees you'll never be any colder than that we had men with hypothermia the only way to and we couldn't get helicopters in because it was overcast and they could fly and pull them out and the only way to keep them warm was to go body to body and keep them warm with your body so that was that was a difficult about two weeks in one case and in fact right initially it was pouring rain the waters up pretty much to our knees and we're told to get the high ground problem was all the high ground we knew was mined because they knew the enemy knew that you'd want an ox by the high ground and so they put booby traps on the high ground so we oK we've tried to get away from the villages and more out in the weeds in the woods away from the villages where they'd be less Vietcong but in doing so the waters kept rising and we got to a place where there was a canal and there was no bridge that while there was was a single rail from the railroad crossing and my balance has never been the best I've never that exactly been an acrobat and you add a full pack and I had a 40-pound radio unit on my back and so you were supposed to go one at a time and I knew the only way to keep my balance was to keep moving so I waited until a quite a space between me and the guy in front of me and started almost at a run across that single rail well in the middle he stops and I stopped abruptly and lost my balance and went over backwards water was about eight to ten feet deep and I did catch a good breath before I went under but I'm being dragged downstream and finally I get rolled over and I didn't want to lose the radio which was probably stupid I probably shouldn't left the radio go but that was my lifeline and so I called and not ten my lungs were gonna burst I thought it was ed I can't do this anymore yet I can't get up because the radio sold you down all the sudden I didn't know I had crawled to a fairly shallow spot and they spotted me and dragged me out of water but I very nearly drowned I came as close as anybody ever wants to come and drowning remember that quite clearly that wasn't funny and so with that that's the way we went on like that for well the better part of a month and then I got orders that I was going back to my unit they found another replacement from the 1st and 14th artillery could come in and be the forward observer which would be more in the chain of command rather than me from outside of my normal unit and so I went back to my command up in Hawk Hill but it was a tough month no no they put me in a couple of places first let's see when I first arrived I was told that the monsoon was still lingering and there was a there was alpha battery of 30 82nd was supposed to be moving north to talking here at the marine area of operations assaultive way and only 2 there were six guns on a on a hill far to the west of TMT or Hawk Hill and two guns had gotten out and then they got socked in again but the infantry needed those guns and so they said we want you to be two later and take those guns on a road march up to this Korean Marine base where the will provide firing support and for the American units and the Korean units that are conducting this operation until the rest that he comes to quaff where they're socked in so again I never done a row of March in enemy territory and it had to be figured to the enemy territory so the first sergeant is usually in the rear he wasn't usually on on the forward fire basis so I sought out the first sergeant for alpha battery and I said pop you've done this before I have not you need to tell me what we need to do I knew the base I'd done it in training but and and with road marching in the States to go out to the field I knew about the spacing of vehicles and so on and so forth but not under real Parliament's when we meet it's really needed security so he said that's all right he said that's fine here's what we're gonna do and so I've reviewed that I said okay that sounds good I'm going to read the map so I'll go forward because the last person we want to lose is you because you know what you're doing and so I took the Jeep and led the way and let the column through some pretty bad roads but we got to the rock marine base we had to forward one stream with our vehicles that at first I thought this isn't very good this is yes but then we got the idea to put a rope across there's a guy I am one of the enlisted men together held each other up until we get across the entire rope so that was we knew that was if we kept our left fender on that it was still that was the end of the road so we brought the vehicles across Gayla crossed and got to the marine base and that was another experience I don't want to digress too much but the Korean Marines are a rough Bunch and as it has an example of that I spent about a week there and we put that back on spend about a week there and they were very disciplined and we shot fire missions out of that I had a sergeant who and I checked the the firing solutions and then checked the guns but there were only two guns so that was easy but while I was there this was a this was a encampment with watchtowers at four corners and at night the Koreans would climb up in there and there their drill was all night long they would go in rotating basis around the yelling things that were I don't want recorded but not nice let's say calling the Vietcong very nasty names and daring them to come an attack and that when I know all night long in a circular fashion from Watchtower to Watchtower well somewhere around two o'clock in the morning one of the watchtowers didn't respond and was silent the next morning the Korean Marine who had been in that Watchtower Marines were two of them they both fall asleep and all the other reads in the their encampment turned out with bamboo batons and made a gauntlet just like you see in the old Indian movies and these two guys had to run the gauntlet between their comrades by the time they got through that gauntlet they had just blood running down their backs they were just beaten to a pulp literally on their backs and they were three Marines were tough they wouldn't tolerate any slackers so that was a short assignment that was about a week as a platoon officer for two guns I got back to 30 82nd and they they said well art our ammunition officer just left went back to the states we need someone to coordinate the resupply to all of our fire bases and the ammunition comes in by c-123 Air Force plane roll it off the back and you've got it you've got two or three guys down there you've got to break it down into sling loads Chinook helicopter will come along and hook it out to the fire bases so that they will have their ammunition and their although because the monsoon just got over we weren't able to fly ammunition out so it's going to be busy for the next couple of weeks so it was critical and so again I had another temporary assignment this was getting to me not see but maybe save my life so I went down to a large base large army base called tin pho pho CK CH which had 8-inch guns and 175 guns and the supply for our one 105's and so there was turns out door to and it was dusty and awful but so there were only two guys so I had to help them just like I was enlisted man lugging the crates and breaking out the pallets with a when the c-123 years rolled them off and figure out how many rounds went to what unit and marked that and then climb out that up on top of the pallet and the Chinook were the sky cranes huge cases would come in if it was a heavy load and drop drop a hook down and we took it out our net and they called a net and take it off to the firebase so that was interesting work once again was more management and labor but there was no sleep because the 8 inch and 175 fired all night long and they would literally the blast sometimes in the right direction you bring bounced right out of bed so I did that for about a week and a half two weeks and then I got a call to come back to hawk hill so I flew up to Hawk Hill again and it turned out that my new job was I was I was now a first lieutenant because I was promoted just before I left the States after a year but I was put in it what's called a cap a captain slot which is the artillery liaison officer to an infantry battalion and so I had the responsibility for all the forward observers who were assigned to that battalion but also coordinating all the fires all the clearances so if there's helicopters flying in the area I had to warn them if there's an other aircraft I had to do the get the approvals from province Chiefs that I was turned down because farther south but now it was further north and it was there it was really a lot of action going on so I spent the next five or six months as the artillery of azar officer with an infantry battalion and in that time we did about half a dozen combat assaults where I coordinated all the firepower both artillery from two or three batteries of different guns the helicopter gunships and the fast movers the phantoms and Crusaders who dropped bombs and napalm and I coordinated all of that for the battalion in all of our combat assaults and also we built three different fire bases from scratch cleared the hillside then put up wire and then did operations for maybe a month or two and then broke that down and went somewhere else so it was constantly moving with different operations and that that was really how I wrapped up my tour doing that for the last five or six months so going back while you were there you said you were in charge of that inspection and that he wants to the port observer and things like that yeah while you were doing all this what was the supply was there any issues getting supplies and things like that in the monsoon period there were because the helicopters couldn't fly so that was a banned spate there for about two weeks but generally supply was very good in the field we get you killed only carry so much sea rations so at least once a week we get resupplied which was a nice event but what I found was towards the end there was in 71 we were starting to cut back on units and at that same time we were up on the DMZ we have gone up there in support of LOM psalm 7 9 1 9 which was when the vietnamese soldiers went into cambodia and we were our unit was providing road security for ql9 all the way out to the border right past Khe Sanh and so that was a quite a hectic exercise in before we went out to Khe Sanh we were on a hill near Khe Sanh we were at alpha 2 which was north the northernmost military outpost on the DMZ but over towards the ocean in the east and on one occasion and I'm gonna I'm getting through this supply thing on one occasion a helicopter came in called a know aged six loach and they asked if I wanted to go out and do some airborne observation over the DMZ to plan harassment and interdiction fires because the enemy we know that they were out the DMZ they have called H and ice and I said well I loved flying helicopters but we just got from our battalion s2 noticed that the enemy had just employed Strela shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles in the DMZ and advised not to fly and so I chose I don't think I see no reason to do that I don't see the benefit of it and given that advisory on them I think I want to go so the infantry battalion s3 also like the fly and he was a captain a West pointer he said well I'll take the ride they they the pilot wants to go I'll go so the pilot and his gunner and the s3 took off and not five minutes later they were shot down in the DMZ and we had radio contact with them and so we sent we called our ready reaction force called the blue unit we were attached to the hundred and first infantry at that point not a regular not the Americal division and so the Blues went in and to rescue them and we had the coordinates because we were on the radio with with the people that were down but it turned out the whole area was mined and the Blues jumped out and took two or three casualties right away so they were under strength to do it go any further so the helicopter immediately pulled them out well the ceiling was bad to start with and all of a sudden it just dropped there was zero visibility and we couldn't get back in to where the chopper was down and so we were still remedial communication so the battalion commanded the infantry battalion commander I hope this isn't too confusing came to me and said can you do anything I said well we can't get in with the only thing I could do is fire artillery in a box around it and try and keep the enemy's head down long enough for us to get in tomorrow and so I got on the radio and just said any any unit on this net any unit on this net fire mission gave them the coordinates of a box I gave him several coordinates I stabilized them that friendlies are in the center so be careful of your not the words I use but of your firing solutions and give me as much support as you could and it turns out by the time I was done I had the Navy fire in for me I had the Marines fire in for me I had a couple of Army artillery units heavy guns eight-inch one seventy-five and so I gave him on a rotating basis I said try and put it around Oh every five or ten minutes from your guns in a rotating basis and they did all night long sometime during the night we lost communication with the people on the ground that were downed one of which had had an injury probably an accident injury and the next morning ruminant and they were gone they had been captured what we found out was the the NVA had tunnels all over the area and they probably had a tunnel right under where the helicopter went down and snatched them as soon as it was dark that's probably my phone can we stop so the we weren't able to get them out they are apparently captured you know contact so a couple days went by and my the infantry battalion commander know was the next day the infantry battalion commander who I had very good relationship with King came in and uh no he was he was away that's right and I got a call that I had to report two hundred and first headquarters division headquarters and they sent a helicopter and it was urgent so helicopter shows up because they're now our parent unit temporarily helicopter shows up I get on board take me to the hundred and first I'm assured into the supply officer for the division and he said you lieutenant Henningsen yes are you the one who authorized all this firing the night before last I said yes he said the who who authorized you to fire all of that I said well my pettalia commander asked me I am for Italian community he said no no no you're operating from one hundred and first who cleared all that fire from the hundred and first I said I just talked to the batteries directly it was an emergency situation he said well you shot up our entire artillery authorization for the whole month in one night you're in big trouble I am going to request that you'd be brought up on charges for misappropriation of military property in excess of million dollars I said you've got to be kidding he says I don't kid you said you'll here go back to your unit and I don't remember exactly you'll hear from us so I get a helicopter fly back out to alpha to the battalion commander comes in here and then out the inventory but my direct commander from the second the first infantry came in and said why you look so glum and I told them what happened yells out the door hold my helicopter he says you're coming with me so we get on the helicopter I says where we are he says we're going down the two line we're gonna talk to the American division commander so we fly to to live on our ride and land go into barges and unannounced barges into the division commanders office third set of offices you wait here and barges into the s4 who was a lieutenant colonel for for the Americal division tell us him what happened tells them how blessed stupid it was that they didn't care about that his men shot down in the DMZ and that they better talk to one hundred and first and get them straight so something went on there I hear a lot of yelling a lot of yelling in there and finally he comes out come on let's go when we come back my helicopter was too noisy to talk and we landed up at alpha 2 up in the DMZ I said excuse me started right what happened he says it's over forget about it apparently the Americal gave positive 100 and first they'd better realize that he's the soldier first enough and a warehouseman second and figure it out and cells that went away so that was I thought I was going to be court-martialed for sure and that's what I was certain with as far as the stress goes because that must have been a really stressful situation at the end nipples compared to when you were filling all those jobs of different serves our position of a captain how did you deal with the stress of that also with the stress of being or observer well I I go back to my training I just didn't think about it I just somehow was able to block to just say okay I got it move on just that day and that was in Officer Candidate School and actually it's brought my trying training they think what you were told is drive on drive on which isn't always the best thing in life but in a combat situation you have no that's what you have to do you just have to drive on you don't have any alternatives you can't I can't run away so though I I that was that was probably up until then I did consider staying in the military my with the officer efficiency reports I had back in the States I knew I was doing a great job as a florid observer and as Donnellan oh and the motor officer passing their tests for the first time I knew and I was told I was excellent material but that this business with the hundred and first and they in this in the are the supply and of course he was desperate the point was supply was getting to be a problem we were cutting back and as we cut back the supplies would cut back in the same fashion and so things had been relatively quiet and now all of a sudden I used oil as ammunition it caused a logistical problem but I didn't care it it to me it shouldn't have been concerned but it was it was paper instead of lives and I couldn't I said I don't like that so that a good question on your part it's probably the first time and I said this really sucks that that here I was doing that to try and save somebody and and I get threatened with charges so that was that was the first time I said you know I don't think on this it that kind of ramrod straight by the book you can't always go by the book and I don't think I might not do well in the army especially down the road at a higher level and that was compounded about three weeks later we went from alpha to on the eastern DMZ out to Khe Sanh we we relocated to a hill and and not the whole unit was around us we were dispersed to provide road security along ql9 which was the main supply route to all of today to the South Vietnamese forces in Cambodia and art and it they were ambushed frequently along that road the road had been reopened the case on so we're on this hill and there's the battalion commander who a a good relationship with had gone on R&R he deserved it and it was off to the States and there was a major who who was in charge and he were on this little hill and there couldn't been more than 30 of us which is a pretty small force when you're deep in Indian country country and we put out perimeter wire and we had the heavy mortars 4.2 inch waters on the hill and my radio team and the potato battalion infantry battalion radio team but there weren't more than two dozen I would think about something this little hill in the middle they had guys all around this well we had cleared part of the hill and he had the wire out but we didn't have any normal bunkers or anything were and so the this major temporary battalion commander who was going by the book said the brush is too close to us we've got to get the brush back away from the wire they could crawl up on doors and that's how it was true but we didn't have any of the tools necessary to cut and dig out the brush and I so he said we're gonna burn it off it was it was a hundred and ten I know that because I checked we had a few containers of water but we didn't have a big well sometimes in a base you have a big limit that's half the size of this room full of water a helicopter brimstone we didn't have that we just get little water bags we didn't know when we'd be resupply because the first people being resupplied were those out in Cambodia and in that case on and I said sir uh I don't think that's a good idea we haven't got the tools to fight a fire and contain it and it's very very dry this brush is very dry but it's out of control we got no place to go he says I'm ordering you because I was the only other officer on the hill he's a major on lieutenant he said I'm ordering you to get them in to burn off the brush and I did sir I told them sorry respectively I applied I will not I do not think that that's a safe thing to do he said you're defined here you're challenging my order I said I'm not challenging I'm advising you that it's not a good thing to do and I I am NOT gonna have mine and do it don't see one of my artillery crew to be involved as well he said well you're disobeying a direct order I'll have you court-martialed for that under combat conditions he said if you don't end up in Leavenworth he'll be very lucky he said oh dear go in your hole on the ground and I don't want to see and he turned around to his men and is the infantry man and he said he turned around to my first my my sergeant and said because they used the next there weren't any other central corporals and privates but he was next thing in rank and my sergeant misused to do it so he put all of us under the under the ground and said don't come up till I die you can come out and told his they junior privates and corporals to start the fire well not ten minutes went by and I hear screams outside and the fire had caused an updraft and just came up the fire came up the hill and was into the wire and the mortar rounds were stacked and the fire was licking against the wooden cases of the board arounds and everybody's screaming and I and bless it's art my recon sergeant said we can't lieutenant we can't let this happen I says you're damn right we can't he ran out first I said you get you you start trying to get them in take their shirts off whatever break down some of the katelyn so the first thing throw the the mortar shells out in the center because it was an open area in the center and the mortars would Penrod around further because we were using both for where the mortars were but also is our firing lunker's if we were attacked so we threw the shells in this in the center they weren't fused so it was okay and some guys would do that and then we take the broken down cases slats and beat out the fire with that and in our clothes and to beat out the fire and we were able to to stop the fire after about 25 minutes and again it away from the perimeter anyway we beat it down enough that it it wasn't risk anymore me and while the major was nowhere to be seen he had gone underground himself thinking that as everyone else the whole top and Hill was going to blow off when the rounds got burned so he I'm trying to take care of get on the radio me a couple of people burned but they weren't burned seriously so I think we got a medic from other units to come and Bailey we didn't have a medic with us the bandage enough and that later they flew out but finally the major comes comes out and we walk the perimeter and set up again because we had torn everything down set up again to protect ourselves and he never mentioned anything never mentioned the fire never mentioned anything he basically let me tell people what to do to get us squared away again so the battalion commander came back and I didn't say anything I figured that somebody in Tallinn but I didn't say anything to Italian community came back from the horn horn the major went to the rear and there was never any discussion about that I was going to be court-martialed for refusing or anything so I finally I pulled back from the DMZ and Khe Sanh and went back to our main unit and I went to the s-1 the administer administrative officer for the second or the first infantry and I said I would like to put in since we weren't being actually shot at I couldn't get some other hero is a metal though there sergeant really deserved it because he led a claim they putting the firearm I put him in through what's called the soldiers now which is heroic saving others lives under difficult conditions not under fire what happen if he's time for that matter put him in and got the paperwork walked into the major and without knocking and said you're gonna sign this and if you sign it I'll keep my mouth shut otherwise we'll both be in deep doo-doo and he sneered at me signed it didn't say word handed back to me I brought it back to the s1 and the soldiers mental ward it for my sergeant but we it was never talked about ever and I said this shouldn't be someone should talk about this something something should have happened here this is major news very bad judgment to start with and then to try and reprimand those who are doing the right thing this is crazy and that's when I decided this isn't an army how far down so while you were staying busy in Vietnam you mentioned your battalion XO did you ever take an R&R or leave yes I did I did and it it was difficult I found my wife met me in in Hawaii we both decided it wasn't appropriate to bring see what about a three-month-old baby that wouldn't abandon anything to the party but it was very difficult for me I uh I just doc didn't well at first and it was awkward I didn't feel I was in another world my head was still over there yet I became my heaven I I didn't want to talk about it to my wife I never wrote anything about it when I wrote letters I was I always tried to be upbeat and talk about positive positive things in my letters so I think we was we enjoyed each other's company and that I was alive and we were together but it was only by the time you fly to Hawaii and fly back it's only three or four days the and we spent also time touring the island and going to good restaurants and even decent food that was over all too soon but it was good to get away from that but I know I was going back so what you said you were at that point in your service you didn't want to stay in the military and was that right about the time that you left Vietnam no that was that was let's see I left in the middle of May of 71 and I had a I came back from the DMZ with the same unit and we had a relatively soft assignment up near the rock Marine base in the same area there were we had some some contact with the enemy one very large fire mission during the night which clearly I could see killed scores of bad guys although they cleaned the bodies off before in the next morning so but I could see him flying in the air and we had a starlight scope so I could see what was going on but in terms of one on one types of interaction it was pretty soft day it was hot uncomfortable but safe relatively safe so that was some about a month and a half before I left yeah um but in the interim while I was up on the DMZ and before this fire ants the incident I was reading the Stars and Stripes and I it said in there that the US EPA Environmental Protection Agency have just been created and the National Environmental Policy Act had been passed the follow the previous year and as a result construction of projects was having a difficult time because the engineers were designing stuff as they always did and the environmental people is we're saying you can't do it that way you're crossing a river and you're not making any protection that you're gonna cause erosion this was in the seventies and I said you know I've got a biology degree I used to teach biology if I get left here and got an engineering degree and learn more about that I might be able to deal with this impasse between the environmentalists and the engineers and allow things to get done but in the right way and so I put it up I put in an application to go to graduate school and and I knew I bet that point I was going to get out but I wanted to get an engineering degree and see if I could do something in environmental engineering and so I found out after I left the DMZ I got in my mail a an acceptance to school and be granting for an early out to go to grad school because they were winding down pulling people out of Vietnam and so I actually left about a month or two earlier than I should have I only served ten months in Vietnam only it seems like a forever but and so I was able to get out early and get the GI Bill and get tuition paid by the EPA to go to school and get my engineering degree and that was a whole new life back for me and then so the end was very positive leaving so you loved and you went directly to graduate school you separated from a serviceman via yes I did well actually formally it would have been in Fort Lewis Washington can you tell me what your well I knew what it was what it would be like if I showed up in uniform because I am the streets of Manhattan Kansas when I was officer of the day I would go in in a jeep looking for enlisted men who were who had been out pass and would get into trouble if they drank too much it was my job as officer a day to go out at midnight on weekends and sometimes while once a month and look for enlistment in trouble and getting in the Jeep again from being prevent them from being arrested by the civilian forces and in that process I had to go to my Manhattan College Manhattan University I guess it is that's in eastern Kansas near Kansas City anyway I I would do this regularly on a schedule and the students would know I was coming because they knew Saturday night is when the OD comes down to pull people out of the bars and they were all prepared and they had signs that say hey hey what do you say how many kids did you kill today and they tore a garbage on me eggs at the Jeep and so I knew what the Spirit was I'd read about Kent State and I didn't expect that would be a very good homecoming so when I got in Fort Lee with Washington I threw everything that was military away put on civilian clothes and just travelers anybody about wearing whatever and that went on for 30 years before I talked to anybody about it Washington did you go back to see your wife yeah that's when I went home so my well - and within two weeks I was in grad school and when you once in grad school did you use up the eyeballs yeah gee I don't pay for it and then after you finished I would became an environmental engineer and worked on everything from closing landfills to building sewage treatment plants to building water plants and cleaning up hazardous waste sites had a wonderful 30 years did you keep in touch with anybody from your no no did you join any veterans didn't want anything to do with that at that time it wasn't until I retired that I realized that I had been extremely lucky both where I'd been what I'd done when I'd done it and came back relatively unscathed although I'd certainly remembered a lot and that's when I decided that I was for the height that I want to do volunteer work and I started looking for volunteer work to help other veterans yes there was a program at the West Haven VA called Giant Steps and I I once again I was fortunate I went to the VA and found out they did help volunteers but most of them really helped people find their way around the VA or push wheelchairs or whatever but I really wanted to work with people I'd done enough reading and knew what was in my own head that I wanted to work with a program that helped those who were having trouble reentering society that had suffered from PTSD and similar difficulties and I found that there was a therapy program at the West Haven VA and more importantly there was a program that used the arts as therapy and group therapy and so I interviewed and talked to the woman who was then in charge of that program and she liked my enthusiasm I guess and she said well really what we need is somebody helped with the gardening program and it's not my favorite thing but it be working with other vets and they they get gratification out of planning stuff and seeing it grow so I said well okay and so that's what I started lugging bags of heating stuff and showing them what to do and the plant and but then I started working more with the arts group after the first year that's when I started writing and painting and I've been doing that now for I'm in my fourth year I guess and and I've done other with other volunteer groups but recently I have started talking to people from the American Legion and Vietnam veterans Vietnam veterans about the VFW and there's a lot of good work that could be done there but first we have to overcome if there's a cliquish this thats there and it nationally they were aware of it but the local posts in maybe VFW are really just places dark places where people smoke a drink and they're not and of course alcohol a lot of cases the last thing need they get out of their situation but that's what they go there for and the American Legion are viewed by the VFW were second-class citizens because they aren't necessarily have never been in combat and so what I found is most of the American Legion our World War two vets or curry events and the younger Vietnam vets are usually members it seems whoever and so that was disappointing but I'm still searching for a way of bringing the two of them together I think they need all the help veterans need all the help they can get and if those organizations could be more effective at least for what I see locally that would make a big difference so I do work with them now trying to change what's been going on my local well it's interesting i i if i may i this is a book that I wrote a poetry and some of the art that I've done while working with other veterans but what happened was when I was up on the DMZ I had the fellow who was shot down on the DMZ and was a Pio w for three years had become a good his friend as good a friend as you could have in the military in combat you don't have many friends but we were relatively close and he was shot down and I didn't know what happened to him well I did after he was released I had a another lieutenant when I was with the down near Quang Nye who was severely wounded with a bouncy betty mount mine a booby trap very bad chest woman he survived and a third lieutenant who was the head of a reconnaissance unit with the second of the first wonderful young man was shot in the head and killed so the only three junior officers I had been close to in Vietnam had either been wounded captured or killed and I fully expected when I was up in the DMZ that my time was pretty much up so one of the poems I wrote is called starry starry night and I won't read the whole thing but basically it recounts that I was sitting on the hill and it was very starry night I was looking up at the sky and I'm I gave up organized religion when I was 12 I was disenchanted with I did to face it miss of it as I viewed it but I said I really think my numbers about to come up but if there's anybody up there listening I vow that if I get through this I will spend the rest of my life according to the golden rule to treat others as I would like to be treated myself and bend over backwards to do that and that's been my credo for the last 40 years and I think I live up to it pretty well I did it all through my environmental engineering crew here trying to make things better for people and seriously and I sometimes I come up against people who didn't appreciate and they say well you're working for the engineering company you're supposed to make this happen and said well I can make it happen but you're gonna have to change your plans to make it happen in a way that that is more thoughtful about how it affects other people and that's the sort of thing I tried to do ever since no I well the only thing is I come back to what I'm doing right now is a as a volunteer at the VA I would like people to understand or any message I would like get someone hears this is how difficult it is and I was very fortunate I had strong family I had siblings I was able to go on and get in your career as luck would have it everything fell into place for me and not everyone is that lucky and a lot of veterans out there who are struggling and it's not enough to say thank you for your service it's nice it's better than not saying anything or turning your back but I know when I have to run into another event that I don't know when I I i say welcome home and how are you doing and I mean it when I say how we do because I think a lot of more still struggling and if there's anything that can be done and it's got to be done by the civilian population right now we've got what less than in in the world war two and through most of yet Nam with the draft close to ten percent of families had someone in the military close to them direct family or friend now we have maybe one percent of our families are affected by people in the military we lost track of the obligation we have to those who are in the military and they serve hard now I can't imagine spending six months in Afghanistan coming home to a family and trying to be normal then going back and killing people to exit six months that's not easy and I don't think we recognized yet how big a burden that is and I think our civilian population has to do a better job understanding it well I would like to say thank you for your service and also for coming in and sharing your stories with us my pleasure thank you very much you

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Published: Thu Jun 01 2017