AGENT ORANGE - A REQUIEM FOR THE MASSES
& THE AGENT ORANGE "SILVER ROSE" MEDAL
ABOUT THE AUTHOR (ME) GREG PAYNE
AGENT ORANGE -
A REQUIEM FOR THE MASSES
FOR ALL
Agent Orange Victims 
(ME) GREG PAYNE
COMBAT INFANTRYMAN BADGE
NAT'L DEF VIET SERV VIET CAMP ARMD SERV EXP ARM GD CON
CPL E-4 EXPERT RIFLE BADGE CPL - E4
"SILVER ROSE" AGENT ORANGE
MEDAL
NATIVE AMERICAN WARRIORS MEDAL OF VALOR
VETERANS OF OREGON HONORABLE SERVICE MEDAL
199th LIGHT INFANTRY BRIGADE
199th LT INF BDE CREST 12th INFANTRY REG
7th INFANTRY DIVISION 32nd INFANTRY
(LIGHT) REG.
7th INFANTRY DIVISION (LIGHT) BAYONET BADGE
DMZ (COMBAT)
MY NAME IS GREG PAYNE AND I SERVED IN...
the United States Army from June 1968
April 1971 as a Combat Infantryman
for the 199th Light Infantry Brigade
during the 1969 TET Counter Offensive
in Vietnam. Then I did a second tour of
combat with the 7th Infantry Division
(Light) on the DMZ border between
North and South Korea. I was exposed
to "Agent Orange in Vietnam and am
now a disabled (combat wounded)
Vietnam Veteran in a long term
Veterans Nursing home in The Dalles,
Oregon.
GREG PAYNE's VIETNAM PIX SLIDESHOW REPUBLIC OF SOUTH VIETNAM 1969 1970 1969 TET COUNTER OFFENSIVE PHASE I & II CASUALITY LIST FOR: D COMPANY 4th BATTALION 12th INFANTRY 199th LIGHT INFANTRY BRIGADE VIETNAM / CAMBODIA APO 96279 1969 - 1970 (MY SQUADMATES) (KILLED IN ACTION) PFC James Earl Bouyer (KIA) SGT Richard Allen Thursby (KIA) SP/4 William Arthur DeBates (KIA) OFFICERS INVOLVED CPT Stover CO LT Blackman XO LT Grossjean, 1st Platoon Leader LT Peter Johannades, 3rd Platoon Leader NCO's INVOLVED Sgt Hall, 2nd Platoon Sgt Thursby, 3rd Squad, 1st Platoon (KIA) Sgt Claud R. VanAndel, 3rd Platoon (KIA) (GUYS I CAME IN TO THE COMPANY WITH) (KILLED IN ACTION) PFC David Edward Kenney (KIA) SGT Claude Richard VanAndel (KIA) (GUYS IN MY COMPANY) (WOUNDED IN ACTION) PFC Pat (Smitty) Smith (Mortar Plt) (WIA) SP/5 "Doc" Ken Reppart (Senior Medic) (WIA) LT Peter Johannades, 3rd Platoon Ldr) (WIA) CAPT Stover CO (WIA) (SURVIVORS) (My Squad) (ME) SP/4 Gregory Payne (Pointman) PFC "Doc" Crockett (Black Medic)(My Squad) SP/4 Brent Lake (Black Grunt)(My Squad) SP/4 Bradley (Black Grunt)(My Squad) SP/4 Guy Owens (My Alternate Pointman) PFC Dan Krapinski (My Squad) (COMMAND POST SURVIVORS) CAPT Stover (CO) LT Blackman (XO) SP/5 "Doc" Ken Reppart (Senior Medic) SP/4 Pat "Smitty" Smith (Mortar Platoon PFC Jan C. Scruggs (Mortar Platoon) (OFFICERS AND NCO SURVIVORS) CPT Stover CO LT Blackman XO LT Grossjean, 1st Platoon Leader LT Peter Johannades, 3rd Platoon Leader Sgt Hall, 2nd P|latoon *SPECIAL NOTE: *JAN C. SCRUGGS was the guy who founded and started "the VIETNAM VETERANS MEMORIAL *************************************************** On one recon patrol near "The Fishnet" we got ambushed by a Squad of 6 Viet Cong in an I was on three anphibious assaults off of a U.S Navy Landing Craft (LCM) (Landing Craft On one Company operation my Company went up into the deep dark jungles of Bien Hoa, where On night we got a late night radio call asking us to make enemy contact in an area that was were we ended up in engagging the enemy in my second "On Line Assault" only ths on was at The towns and hamlets we worked or encamped near in our NDP's we operated our combat ATTACKS WITH COMMUNIST 82mm MOTRTARS. My Squad Leader SGT Richard Allen Thursby two weeks before he was killed stepped flat he could get off the wire and jump to safety. He then had us tie a roll of twine on to the We operated in III Corps Tacticle Zone in War Zone C & D towards the Cambodian Border in The Company Operations we went on included: 1969 TET Counter Offensive Phase I Operation Strangler I Operation Strangler II Operation Strangler III Operation Lulu Operation Strangler IV & 1969 TET Counter Offensive Phase II Hall-Howell Chapter #512 P.O. Box 565 Vancouver, WA 98666-0565 MY WEBSITES STARS N' STRIPES http://www.freewebs.com/teetee199thlibpowmia69/ POW/MIA OPERATION JUST CAUSE_HARLEY H. HALL_ MY ADOPTED POW/MIA http://www.teetee199thlibusflag49.spaces.live.com/ UNITED STATES OF AMERICA U.S. TROOPS' NATIONAL HALL OF HONOR http://www.digitaljournal.com/blog/503 GOD AND COUNTRY http://blog.mail.com/teetee199thlib:oregon.usa.com VETERANS OF OREGON AND THE DALLES ▼ ▼ SIGNATURE
MY COMBAT HISTORY
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open rice paddie, where we stood up and charged the Viet Cong ambush in a typical textbook
classic on line Infantry assault with M-16's on fully Automatic. The firefight ended in our
favor.
Marine) called "THE GREY GHOST)
we found 50, 100 lbs. of raw rice in an NVA Rice Cashe
not to far from our ambush site so we rowed down a canal in a snpan bamboo boat
night.
Operations and Patrols were: Bien Hoa, Bear Cat, "The Fishnet", Binh Chanh, My Yen,
"The Pineapple" and the Cambodian Border areas.
WE EXPIERIENCED ALOT OF MORTAR
Charlie Company 4/12 199th LIB had a firefight right next to our ambush site about 6:00pm
near My Yen.
footed on a "Booby Trap Tripwire" and realizing what he did lowered a can of M-60
Machinegun Ammo off his shoulder and set it down on the tripwire to hold it down until
canvas strap on the ammo can got down behind the rice paddy dyke pulled the ammo can off the
tripwire and blew the "booby trap" in place.
Gia Dinh Province and a geographical area called the "Pineapple."
A Veterans' newspaper that deals with Military issues that should have been published in the original overseas newspaper the "Stars and Stripes" is now being published in the sister paper "STARS N' STRIPES." Now has live combat video clips, and Pulitzer prise winning photos from all wars and from all generations. by Greg Payne, Editor.
My Yahoo! Group is at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/teetee199thlibstarsnstripes/
STARS N' STRIPES
AGENT ORANGE - A REQUIEM FOR THE MASSES
Now Iam a Silver Rose recipient and my goal to get the bran new Agent Orange Silver Rose Medal into our Nations first "Chemical & Biological Wound medal" with full medical coverage just like the Purple Heart nedal is our "Blood medal" for small arms fire. Iam currently working on this project by writing Washington DC, but I can't do it alone I'll need the help of other Veterans
http://teetee199thlibagentorangearequiemforthemasses69.webs.com/
AGENT ORANGE - A REQUIEM FOR THE MASSES.
VIETNAM COMBAT VETERANS
is a website, as well as a Webring for all Vietnam combat veterans fron all branches of the U.S Military and from all units that served in Vietnam to be able to create their own memorials, their own pictures of Vietnam can all be posted. To be able to find guys they served with from their own branches and units. To be able to enjoy Holiday activities, to be able to join our Websites into a webring, or even be able to create their own website to help tell the future generations what really happened historically in Vietnam and why so we can preserve the truth of our true legacy.
http://teetee199thlibvietnamcombatveterans69.webscom./
VIETNAM COMBAT VETERANS
A VETERANS' FAMILY MEMORIAL HALL OF HONOR
An outreach site to other Military families who are suffering sacrifices, and loses of their loved ones right now, by my family who knows what Military sacrifices, and loses are all about come and meet my family for outreach and fellowship! A Veterans' family memorial tribute to my father Zelmar Bryan Payne B-17, B-29 Bomber pilot WWII. U.S.A.A,C. My Uncle Pete D Cheresnik P-47D Thunderbolt pilot for Zemke's Wolfpack WWII. U.S. Army Air Force. To My Cousin David Wallace Baker, SGT United States Marine Corps. K.I.A in Vietnam 1970. A memorial for my other cousin Gerald Clark F-4E Phantom Fighter Jet pilot Vietnam. To My little Sister Katheryn Fae Vosberg United States Air Force. and myself as an Agent Orange "Silver Rose" recipiant. as a Combat Infantryman for 199th Light Infantry Brigade TET Counter Offensive Vietnam. http://teetee199thlibavetsfamilymemorialhallofhonor49.webs.com/ A VETERANS' FAMILY MEMORIAL HALL OF HONOR
U.S. VETERANS NATIONAL HALL OF HONOR
Place a U.S. flag beside the name of your beloved veteran who has passed on through the portals of time, U.S. Veterans National Hall of Honor is a memorial site for all U.S. Veterans from all wars and from all generations who have passed away by natural causes, by accident, or by war, to have our own National Hall of Honor a place where only valor sleeps. http://www.freewebs.com/teetee199thlibhallofhonor49/ U.S. VETERANS NATIONAL HALL OF HONOR
199th LIGHT INFANTRY BRIGADE NATIONAL HALL OF HONOR
A site where all "Redcatchers former members of the 199th Light Infantry Brigade that served with the 199th while in combat between the years of 1966-1970 can now have our own National Hall of Honor. Also all CELEBERATIES WHO HONORED. THE VIETNAM VETERAN .
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199th LIGHT INFANTRY BRIGADE NATIONAL HALL OF HONOR
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POW/MIA OPERATION JUST CAUSE_HARLEY H. HALL MY ADOPTED POW/MIA
My adopted POW/MIA through Operation Just Cause is HARLEY H. HALL my hometown POW/MIA from Vancouver, Washington. HARLEY was the very lat POW/MIA casuality of the Vietnam War., and the Vietnam Veterans of America the HALL - HOWELL Chapter #512 of Vancouver, Washington We salute you sir!" If you haven't adopted a POW/MIA through Operation Just Cause or any other organization yet then please do so today, you don't know what your missing if you don't, for this is a must!"
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A Patriotic and a fun edcational site for veterans and their children and the general public to use for testing their children on geography. geopolitical affairs, current events, national landmarks, and historical U.S. flags.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA INTERNATIONAL
An appreciation site of our National Monuments, National Parks, City Skylines at sunset, our National Heratage through God and Country all of our honorable culture is appreciated to other countrys on an International. http://www.myspace.com/teetee199thlib_usa UNITED STATES OF AMERICA INTERNATIONAL
U.S. TROOPS NATIONAL HALL OF HONOR
A site that shows the lighter side to war and politics for all U.S. veterans from all units, from all branches, from all wars, and from all generations and especially for the Troops that are still now overseas!http://360.yahoo.com/teetee199thlib
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Different events that have happened through out our history, past, present, and fututure events
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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VETERANS' RIGHTS AND VETERANS' AFFAIRS
Veterans' Rights and Affairs covers a host of veterans problems nd affairs for the purpose of continuing thebest of care for our Troops and our Veterans throughthe Newsvine community http://teetee199thlib.newsvine.com/
VETERANS' RIGHTS AND VETERANS' AFFAIRS
GOD AND COUNTRY
A site where U.S. Veterans from all wars and from all generations can join this websie and the Support group on this site can be treated with the honor and respect that we deserve.
VETERANS OF OREGON AND THE DALLES
A current local update of the events taking place in veterans affairs of Oregon and the Dalles.
HALL OF HONOR
A homepage for my websites and webrings including: A VETERANS' MEMORIAL HALL OF HONOR (1) 199th LIGHT INFANTRY BRIGADE NATIONAL HALL OF HONOR (1) US VETERANS NATIONAL HALL OF HONOR (1) U.S. TROOPS NATIONAL HALL OF HONOR (1) POW/MIA OPERATION JUST CAUSE_HARLEY H. HALL MY ADOPTED POW/MIA
http://wwwhallofhonorgooglebar.blogspot.com/
HALL OF HONOR
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HALL OF HONOR
RING DESCRIPTION: HALL OF HONOR Is a Webring by Ringsurf that will accept any Website that will honor the United States Military and our Troops, veterans; our fallen, and POW/MIA's from any war, from, any military unit, from any military branch of service, from any time of war, from any erra time, or from any generation with the dignity, honor and the respect that we deserve. Any Website that doesnot meet these requirements or adhear to these requirements will be instantly deleted with no questions asked!
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HALL OF HONOR
199th LIGHT INFANTRY BRIGADE NATIONAL HALL OF HONOR
RING DESCRIPTION: 199th LIGHT INFANTRY BRIGADE NATIONAL HALL OF HONOR Webring designed for all Redcatcher former menbers of the 199th Light Infantry Brigade to join all of our websites together and form one big webring.
http://www.ringsurf.com/ring/nr234/
199th LIGHT INFANTRY BRIGADE NATIONAL HALL OF HONOR
