FNG's

Actual Blog date: Sunday, May 16th, 2010
Historical Date: December 10, 1968
10,000 miles we traveled. All of us, a collective force of over three million came strong to fight for dear old Uncle Sam. I arrived on the beach at Da Nang (1), near the border of North Vietnam, ready and eager to serve my country to the fullest. White, Black, Hispanic and Native American, and I’m sure I saw a couple Guamian and Hawaiian men standing proud, bare out of our teen hood. We were originally sent to fight as a unit but eventually just came as replacements. Some of the landing zones were greeted by friendlies and people carrying wreathes. I overheard some of the older troops talking about how the soldiers in the air terminal of Tan Son Nhut were greeted by sniper fire. That’s a funny thing about the older troops, they call us newbies or cherries. it almost made us want to spend a few months in the brush so we could label other new guys cherries or FNG ("****in' New Guys")(1).