A Trip Thru Hell (Nam): My Tour (Nam)

By Joe W. Harrison

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jun 7, 2011
• ISBN: 9781456875497

Joe W. Harrison

Joe Harrison spent the years after the army on various jobs and career movements. First as a professional musician, working out of Nashville Tennessee, playing drums on tour for several years..while working in various radio stations in middle Tennessee, and northern Alabama, and finally owning a station of his own a five thousand watt station located in Lexington Alabama. from there finishing college was a necessity and then news reporting for several other stations then as radio changed and many died out.. he was back in school and became a master electrician working for Mid-Tenn electric in Columbia Tennessee working for them for several years before retiring . After retiring moving back home to Texas. After first starting two cowboy churches. After that he moved to Texas where he met a church pastor named Virgil Barnes who schooled him in a way and enlightened him on the Bible and GODs love.. He preached there but as important he learned a new trade. He worked and learned part of the trade as a machinist..making parts for a tool marketed around the world. The company was B&B Tool. inc. and while doing all these jobs still found time to write. Both religious poems and a book about his tour in Viet-Nam.. God only knows what life will offer up next, but you can be sure that after a visit from CHRIST, it will be for and with a church somewhere, and wherever its close... Harrison is still in awe. About the chopper pilots in Nam. they never shirked a job pulling his men out of jams. But now his life is dedicated to spreading the word about the love of GOD and telling how prayers are being answered...

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A Trip Thru Hell (NAM)

My Tour (NAM)

Joe W. Harrison

Copyright © 2011 by Joe W. Harrison.

ISBN:          Softcover              978-1-4568-7548-0

                   Ebook                  978-1-4568-7549-7

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Contents

Back To Active Duty

Training

The Promotion

Training

Graduation

Transfer

Flying

Arriving In Nam

Decisions

Stocking Up

‘The Lp’

Two Weeks Off

Being Watched

‘Tunnels’

‘Battling’

‘Air Power’

Gruesome Detail

Back To Base Camp

Awards

‘Moving Out’

A Battle

Still Fighting

Ants

‘Getting Back’

Direct Orders

Last Battle

Big Battle

Joe Harrison was a member of the 11th armored cavalry

In the republic of south Viet-Nam in the years

1967 and 1968 with the M O S of 11d

I wish the best for all the members of I troop 11th armored cavalry

May GOD richly bless each and everyone of you

To the troops I served with in Viet-Nam GOD be with you

Each and every one of you.

THIS BOOK HAS BEEN WRITTEN WITH THE SOLDIERS OF THE 11TH CAV IN MIND.

AND FROM MEMIORS OF SSG JOE W. HARRISON WHO SERVED FROM MARCH 1967 UNTIL APRIL 1968…

THIS BOOK IS PURELY FROM MEMORIES THAT MAY OR MAY NOT BE EXACT.

BUT THE STORIES ARE FROM FRIENDS AND FELLOW RECON PERSONNEL.

HARRISON RECEIVED THE SOLDIERS AWARD WHILE IN VEIT-NAM.

FOR ALL THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES… THEY WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN.

BUT THEY DIED BRAVELY… AND WITHOUT BACKING UP…

THE CHOPPER PILOTS ARE TO BE COMMENDED IN THAT WAR… THEY NEVER HESITATED TO PULL OUT THE WOUNDED. UNDER FIRE OR NOT… THEY WERE THERE… THE ONLY ONE I CAN NAME WAS CWO ERBY… A FRIEND FROM THE 14TH ARMORED CAV IN EUROPE… RESCUED ME FROM THE FIELD… YOU JUST CAN’T REALLY UNDERSTAND HOW GREAT IT FELT WHEN THE CHOPPER PILOT WAS HOVERING OVERHEAD TAKING ON FIRE YELLING SGT HARRISON GET IN THIS DAMN CHOPPER… SOMEONE KNEW ME FROM AFAR… WHO IN THE WORLD COULD IT BE.

CWO ERBY IS WHAT I WAS TOLD… BY THAT PILOT THAT WAS AS PROUD TO SEE ME AS I WAS HIM.

SO HATS OFF AND A JOB WELL DONE FOR ALL THE GUYS OF THE 11TH CAV IN VIET-NAM

IT WAS TRYING TIMES FOR EVERYONE. AND EVEN THOUGH WE HAVE NEVER BEEN TREATED LIKE AN AMERICAN SOLDIER, WE SHOULD BE, WHEN RETURNING HOME. THE JOB WAS DONE AND DONE WELL…

THANKS TO ALL THAT HELPED ME MAKE IT THROUGH THAT AWFUL MESS… AND DAMN JANE FONDA

WHO PREACHED THE AWFULLEST BUNCH OF BULL I HAVE EVER HEARD A HUMAN DO IN MY LIFE…

JOE HARRISON… . 02/06/11

I want to spend a few moments to say thanks to my wife Donna who helped me get this book done while working 9 hours a day.

She sat and went through the editing process with a fine tooth comb.

It was not an easy job… .

So a heaping and hardy thank you Donna for helping get this book to the press.

I would like to thank all the personnel of the Blackhorse regiment that was there during the tet-offensive years 1967 AND 1968.

I wish the very best for all and may GOD richly bless all of you is my prayer.

Joe Harrison is retired and is still involved with church as associate pastor at the cowboy church of Dallas county Texas.

The sixty-seven year old Harrison is in good physical shape and thinks often of his friends and relatives that tried to save a free country in Viet-Nam. He dedicates this book to their memory.Also he asks that we don’t forget the great job our men in uniform are doing.

BACK TO ACTIVE DUTY

After not being able to find a job and finally finishing four semesters of college I decided to re-enter the Army.

But I decided to again further my education. In doing so I went back to attend Military Police training. I had tried with no success to get into the Austin police force. But I was told

I wore glasses, and could never be a policeman. I was out to prove them wrong.

My thinking was if I went back into the Army and was a trained

Military Policeman I could get in a