Special Forces ERDL Jungle Jacket of Fred Caristo

[kammo-man]

I don't want to sound like a bore but

VERY VERY cool.

owen

[treetop]

Caristo was a friend of a buddy of mine who was also a BDQ. The beret he is wearing is a BDQ beret and known as a "Cocks comb" style. Caristo has since died, 6-7 years ago my buddy was asking if I could pick up some field manuals around here to send to Caristo in South America. According to my friend, Caristo was a super trooper

[63 RECON]

once again thanks for the comments, he sure was, I have a copy of his pers file and he was in for 20 years and has many honors and awards.

[Guest Schreck]

I stumbled upon this site looking for info on Fred. Fred was one of many SF officers I worked with at SOG HQ, both in Cholon section of Saigon and then at the old MACV HQ downtown across the street from the Italian embassy. I was only a PFC at the time, but, like Fred, I spoke Vietnamese courtesy of special DLI at Ft. Bliss.

At first, I had a nice cushy, safe job in the Security section and Fred would be in and out of the office, but always stopped by to tell me a lewd joke in VN so my office mates weren't in on the joke. Fred convinced me to switch from Security to OP-34 with him. He went on to be promoted to Major and I went on to OP34A missions out of Danang and NKP Thailand. I almost cried when I saw this jacket and the bracelet as it reminded me of Fred and his courage and devotion.

[kammo-man]

That’s very moving !

 

Owen

 

 

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[Guest thomasstone]

On 6/20/2016 at 8:06 AM, 63 RECON said:

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[Guest thomasstone]

It is Caristo in Thai