| Manuel Montero MOS: 63B40 E-Mail: manuel6845@yahoo.com Year Served: 1966 to 1967 First group on the way to Vietnam By ship.Troop and equipment. Address: 221 2nd Street Trenton, NJ 08611 Phone: 609-695-6573 Comments: Friends: Any one who served with me from Ft. Meade to Vietnam 66-67 Friends 1-James D. Shower Ft Banning 3Training Bde/11Bn/C Co. Basic Training. Served in Vietnam 66/67 Phou Ving and from the same Basic Training Unit #2 Joe L. Pinkston also a original member of 104th DT Co. Served in Vietnan 66/67 with us (truck driver) |
| FLYING TIGERS |
| Manuel said that on one of their convoys they took some small arms fire, then they put the pedals to the metal, as they went thru Tay Ninh they were going around 55 MPH, he said the MP's couldn't keep up with them and radioed ahead, when they arrived at the base, the captain ask why they were speeding and that the MP's called them the Flying Tigers, it stuck with them from their on out. |
