Camp Holloway Discussion Forum Archive 02 - 05/07/01 to 02/28/03

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** When it came to Booze you could trade for Jack Daniels and Johnny Walker but you had to have a good trade. **

Tom, I used to try to keep Sundry pack type stuff, cigarettes, matches, pound cake, etc and those quart cans of juice under my seat. I'd pass it all around when we pulled guys from wherever and things settled down to a ride home.

April or May 69, we pulled some 4ID grunts who'd been humping Happy Valley for a couple of weeks, just to drop them at another bush lz a few miles away. Well, I pulled out those cans of pineapple juice and grapefruit juice, Salems, etc and passed them around. The grunts just peed to get the stuff, then they had a little conference and one of them handed me a freakin' sandbag full of fresh-picked hooch, still green. Cowabunga.

We got back to An Khe, I took care of a few guys I knew would appreciate it, then I held the rest and traded it in Pleiku for all the booze ration tickets there were. Yikes.

Life was good for a few days...

Bob

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