Posting Truck
Chaplain Steve Janke
483rd SPS, Cam Ranh Bay AB,
K-9, 1970-1971

To some post-time means a night at the races and        some fun... To teenage kids in Vietnam it meant going to work in        a war we could not have won. You think of many things when you're on a truck in        the night. Heading out to a new post And wondering if this night you may have to fight. You think of what is wrong and what is right. You think of a lot of things as the safety of the base        fades slowly out of sight. (The wind blows in your face and war dog's eager to        get started.) Going out was different than coming back. When going out there was the anxiety and worry of        what was ahead. When coming back, about all you could think of was        maybe some breakfast and the sack. Alone going out, alone while dropped of, and        alone coming back home. I guess that's why many ex K-9 men still prefer to be        alone. The good thing in looking back is that with God there        we're never alone Then or now.'

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