DEROS
1971: 52 Cards and a Wakeup!
by James R. Randall
© Copyright 2000
483rd SPS Cam Ranh Bay AB, 1970
I'm sending an attachment of a calender
I made and tacked up on my hooch wall at Cam Ranh Bay AB in 1970. My Deros
date was January 12, 1971, so as you can see I have a big twelve circled
in red, also during the flight over one of the Stewardess gave me a
deck of playing cards, seeing as there are 52 cards in the deck and
I had 52 weeks to serve I figured would send one card home a week, I
started with the Ace of Spades and planned on carrying the Ace of Hearts
home to my wife, I never got that far, I was called home on emergency
leave on September 15th, 1970 and never returned to Vietnam, it was
actually a sad occasion because I never got the chance to say good-bye
to any of my friends, I regretted that for 30 years until I found the
VSPA web site, I finally found one of my hooch mates, Wayne Kasper,
and closed that chapter of my life. Thanks, the cards have long since
disappeared but the memories remain.
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