User talk:Wayne Briggs Viet-Nam 1966-1969

"RIBY DON'T TAKE YOUR LOVE TO TOWN!" was the #1 song play in some partas of Viet-Nam. Nha Trang, with a beautiful beach on the coast of Vietn-Nam in the Central II Corp with theHQ of US Special Forces (5th Group) in Viet-Nam, the most important Air Force Special Operation base in Viet-Nam, and a major costal transportation hb between the largest US port in Asia (the largest sheltered from typhoon protected bay in the Pacific)  and truck traffic noth to the Centrl Highlands an d other parts of Viet-Nam. The 8 the Field Hospital was also theere, along with the best and talest Gas Station Sign in Viet-Nam "Super Chick Gas". It was the 5th Special Forces Group, including "Mike Force" and the "Recondo School" where Special Forces trainer US Army Rangers & Scouts from other units in behind the lines recon that made Nha Trang Famous.

Lynn Yocum was an American minister living in Nha Trang & minister for Nha Trang Cam Ranh Bay Churches of Christ. The NCO responsible for the juteboxes in the clus at Nha Tran had complained to Lynn (I remember Lynn telling me this the week it happened in Viet-Nam) that the NCO claimed he had to REPLACE "RUBY DON'T TAKE YOUR LOVE O TOWN twice & somethings three times a week because they were so worn out & GIs play this more than any other song in the Nha Trang area. Nov 2, 2012

Nha Trang was was visited by other famous Americans: John ayne, Mitch ____ to invitd some very quiet weapons, & the US Ambassador to Laos.

Source: personal memory of both of us from 1967 or 1968