“Some troopers in Battalion Rear painted in the Chaplins while we were in DMZ although undeserved and I requested Fighting Nomads instead. By the time I arrived at Phu Bai, the sign was erected already.”
— On Sun, 6/22/08, Dunc Chaplin <dsnack@worldpath.net> wrote:
June 22 … Whoops, look at what I found in my drafts file. Sorry it’s late. Tomorrows my 80th. My family is holding a large birthday party on Saturday. It’s a Pig Roast kindness of Strafford County Sheriff Wayne Estes. Whoopee! Money Six
F.Y.I.
Back in my romping stomping days!
I joined Nomads in the first sweep through the DMZ; then the Phu Bai Defense Command and conducting counter-guerrilla warfare between Hai Van Pass and Hue City during the six months prior to Tet 1968. By then I was rotated to Hawaii and 2/26 was in major blocking position at north end of the Khe Shan Combat Base.
Not me. 2/26 was given the nick name of the Professionals by its first Marines back in California before embarkation for ” Nam . Some how, by time I joined up, the Battalion was known as the Nomads, because it was constantly a swing unit between Regiments (but never its parent 26th Marines) in both the 1st and 3rd Divisions. Some troopers in Battalion Rear painted in the Chaplins while we were in DMZ although undeserved and I requested Fighting Nomads instead. By the time I arrived at Phu Bai, the sign was erected already.
For Jimmy Ronny: I live in Strafford and Farmington is just over New Durham Ridge by town maintained gravel roads. Yes, it is one of the few towns still in tact as NH turns into residential, bed rooms and out of state recreation hide outs.
