Michael Hale

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Mike Hale was born in Muskegon, Michigan in 1946. He attended Barbour Hall Academy and Marmion Military Academy until graduating in 1964. In August 1965 he enlisted in the Army for communications and attended training at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, Fort Devens, Massachusetts, and Fort Riley, Kansas. He was attached to Headquarters Company of the 15th Combat Engineer Battalion of the 9th Division at Fort Riley and was deployed to Vietnam in mid-October 1966 where he served at Bearcat and at Dong Thap in the Mekong Delta until he was sent home in April 1968. Upon returning home he served at Fort Sheridan, Illinois until May 1969.

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@oliverroper1062 Ай бұрын

One of the best out of a great bunch. Thank you.

@mebeasensei Ай бұрын

Thank goodness. The audio is SO much better. As it should be for these valuable interviews.

@boknows3841 Ай бұрын

Out of the 100s of these videos I watched, this was the one I had to watch twice before I could even comment or turn it off. Thank you for sharing your experience. My Uncle Paul, which is your age, but I am only 13 years younger, that refused to go, because he was too kind hearted and couldn't kill anything, was more afraid of something happening to him than he was of actually going just for the sake of going to appease the government. Even if he had gone, he probably would have been exposed to Agent Orange and would have died for nothing, because everyone else here from his graduating class that went are all gone. Radio communications would have been his MOS because that was what he went to school for and when he graduated from tech school he was only 19.. 68 - 69 was a really bad time to be in the Nam.. So for some soldiers that served, your experience was more like a dangerous job than a military career.