mmerc20 Posted September 12, 2019 Share #1 Posted September 12, 2019 My father in law is heading to DC for a Vietnam Vet honor flight and the organizer is requesting letters for a "mail call" on the return flight. I wanted to make it unique and was thinking of assembling a memory lane sort of envelope but I am actually at a loss what to include. Besides Vietnamese money, I don't know what sort of papers would help him reminisce about his time. He was there, I believe in 70-71 (I could be wrong) with the 213th helicopter company as a chinook flight engineer but was wondering what sort of pamphlets, documents, flyers, etc just about every soldier would see during their time in Vietnam. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I only have a week and a half to get this together Thanks so much, Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lettow Posted September 12, 2019 Share #2 Posted September 12, 2019 MPC Series 681 or 692. The conversion was October 1970. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmerc20 Posted September 12, 2019 Author Share #3 Posted September 12, 2019 Nice idea I actually didn't think of MPCs. So far, I'm going to reprint these with his info on some of them: Liberty pass card (DD Form 345) M16 Rifle maintenance card (GTS 21-1-3) Meal card (DD Form 714) Front cover of a UH-47A manual C Ration Marlboro pack Military airlift ticket Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skypilot6670 Posted September 12, 2019 Share #4 Posted September 12, 2019 Letters from family ,Playboy , Chu hoi papers. matches , toilet paper. Any water flavoring ice tea, tang etc the smell of jet A . Smell of latrine odor, mildew odor , dead fish water buffalo stink no air conditioning a P38 can opener , C ration coffee or pound cake and for good measure a pint of Jack Daniels. Mike Delta Co 87th Inf. Da Nang 72 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmerc20 Posted September 13, 2019 Author Share #5 Posted September 13, 2019 I appreciate the "thoughtful" ideas but I will probably leave most of those out. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skypilot6670 Posted September 13, 2019 Share #6 Posted September 13, 2019 I would also leave most out. Best of luck to you and him. Tell him “Welcome Home “ for me. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmerc20 Posted September 14, 2019 Author Share #7 Posted September 14, 2019 I will be sure to do that. He did 2 tours. May 70-Jun 71 and Jul 71 to Dec 71 and reassigned to a place back in the states after that. I will share what I have assembled once it's all done. I'm doing some photoshop on scans of original documents and I think it will look pretty cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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