84th Engineer Battalion (Construction)
Association Viet Nam

Thanks go out to
Henry C Ashburn Jr.
D Company

I was assigned to the 84th after returning from a tour with the 809th Engineers in Thailand. I went to Fort Ord to hook up with the 84th only to find out that they were in Needles Ca. On Operation Desert Strike, I was quickly deployed to Needles where we stayed untill returning to Fort Ord. We left Fort Ord in mid 65 fron San Francisco on the General Leroy Eltinge. I only had about 6 months left in the service when we were activated to Viet Nam so I left Nam in November of 65. I was a Spec 4 and my MOS was 622.20. After arriving at Camran Bay, D company off loaded from the Elting onto LCUs, headed for Na Trang, we spent a day or two at Na Trang and then flew on C 130s to Vung Tau where I spent the remander of my tour.