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Larry Jennings

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Daily life included a shower from a hanging 55 gallon drum and maybe some C-rations. Larry Jennings was stationed at Pleiku where he engaged in search and destroy missions in addition to his job as supply sergeant. He reveals why the enemy had a better rifle and which was more dangerous, the line or the rear. (3:37)

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Larry Jennings' engineer unit was ordered out of Pleiku and back to the Saigon area. After a long trip that included passage on LST's, they settled in and waited. He had a short time left and he was trying to keep his head down when his buddy organized a trip to Saigon. (2:37)

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Vietnam veteran Larry Jennings describes the use of Agent Orange to deprive the enemy of its hiding places. It really worked well, but in 2001, he joined the long list of personnel who had lingering effects. He also had a small shrapnel wound, for which he received no Purple Heart. (2:06)

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Larry Jennings was a little older than most of the guys he served with in Vietnam and he tried to steer them away from the bad choices that they could easily make. Many of them looked up to him and took his advice, including one who didn't make it. (1:31)

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Larry Jennings returned from Vietnam knowing full well what the reputation of returning veterans was. He points out that women and children die in every war and in this particular war, many of them were in the ranks of the enemy. He does have fond memories of one child, a little girl at an orphanage near his base in Pleiku. (2:17)

Larry Jordan

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After four years of ROTC and even more years of hearing his father and uncle argue over who had it worse in World War II, Larry Jordan secured an appointment to West Point. He was one of only nineteen minority cadets when he entered in 1964. After a thirty five year career, he retired as a Lt. General. (4:15)

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It was The Big Red One for Larry Jordan when he arrived in Vietnam. The West Pointer was assigned to a mechanized company in the 1st Infantry Division, where he lived out of an armored personnel carrier. When he was made reconnaissance platoon leader, he had more machine guns and some flametracks, vehicles which shot a stream of napalm. (6:01)

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The locals were both Vietnamese and Montagnards. Larry Jordan had respect for both groups but he was disappointed at the way the Vietnamese treated the indigenous Degar people, known as Montagnards since the French era. (2:50)

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At every level, says Larry Jordan, you have an officer teamed with a non-commissioned officer, and the officer is getting trained. He kept a good relationship with his men by not elevating himself. He recalls the time shared with men in Vietnam and a wary chaplain at his base camp. (5:57)

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"Good morning, Vietnam!" That was Larry Jordan's wake up call with the 1st Infantry Division in the field. When the entire division was ordered back to the United States, he still had time left on his tour so he wound up in the 1st Cavalry where he finished out his time. (4:03)