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Donnell B. Jones
I was drifted in the army at the age of eighteen in Phoenix Arizona did my army training in the deep south in middle sixties. Ship to Vietnam where aside too the a unit call the 2nd and 18th Infini...view moreI was drifted in the army at the age of eighteen in Phoenix Arizona did my army training in the deep south in middle sixties. Ship to Vietnam where aside too the a unit call the 2nd and 18th Infinitely with the 1st Division. Where we aside a point platoon in a patrol we was separated from our main unit and pin down behind enemy lines. And had to fight our way back to the main unit then I was transferred to 2nd &16th Rangers. In a ranger and then forced to be a sniper.
As a range I was Then abandon in the jungle and lift in the jungle and reported dead and missing too my mother and family. Wounded in the jungles of Vietnam somehow I found my way back and was rescued by another unit. Med evac to Japan where in Zama hospital stay. my recorded were lost and they did not know who I was fore mouths. Then sent too South Korea sent on mission then sent too north Korea to destroy some tape on a little spy boat call the pueblo. Then aside to worked at a radio and TV station in soul Korea AFKN. Before returning home .
The mean while my mother was receiving payments from the military fore my death . Once learning of my survival the payments stopped And the first thing she said to me when I walked in to her house after fourteen mouth was .
“Boy you should have stayed dead.”view less