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From: Terry Hopkins
Date: 7/8/2004
Time: 10:47:53 PM
Remote Name: 68.228.49.177
Thanks for your reply Jim. I've been following your postings on the site as well as others that were in Can Tho around the same time as I was. It is truly a small world and the comments posted here are amazing mind joggers. Sounds like life has treated you well and you ended up with a fine family. I too was fortunate in how things worked out after CanTho. I married the girl I fell for when I was stationed at Devens going to school in 67 and have been with her ever since. Had a son in '70 and they acompanied me around the world for the rest of my 21 years in the army.
Rothwestern must have been a great assignment. Before I was transferred to the 156th, I was stationed at Herzo Base in the 318th ASA Bn. The 507th ASA Group put together a unit in November 67 called the 507th SOFT to take a bunch of systems down to Augsburg to test the site to see if it was suitable to build a Field Station there. Rothwestern systems, operators and MPs were part of that trip. Were you at Rothwestern (317th ASA Bn/17th Field Station?) when they discontinued ops at Rothwestern, Herzo and Bad Aibling and moved them to Augsburg? I had always hoped to get back to Herzo someday. I was fortunate to pull a tour at Field Station Berlin and again later in Ansbach with the 1st AD (501st MI Bn) but it wasn't the same.
Can Tho was surely the most exciting tour I had. Perimeter guard duty and the convoys to Vinh Long to turn in aircraft engines were very memorable.
Thanks again for the note Jim. I'll stop back from time to time to see what is going on.
Terry