Name: Stephen L.Boylan

Rank: SP4

PMOS: 11C4S

Groups:
5th SFGA

Teams/Camps in SE ASIA: B50 Ban Me Thuot

Comments: Radioman on team Pick LRRP. Ed Cofer and R. J. Graham were also on the team.

Great to see this site and all the info on it. I was on a CCS recon team called "Pick" which operated out of camp B50 12 miles outside of Ban Me Thuot. I was there from November 1969 to April 1970. I was wounded in action in Cambodia along with 2 other Americans named R.J. Graham and Everette Cofer who was killed. I found out later that my records had been destroyed by the warehouse fire in St. Louis, MO in the mid seventies. I received the Bronze Star w/V and the Purple Heart which was finally handed to me unceremoniously by my Congressman`s office in Peoria, Illinois a couple of years ago.
We lost a war we could have won in 6 months and even though I am older and much wiser I still shed bitter tears over the brave men I knew who died for nothing. Some of the crap I see about Viet Nam in movies makes me want to throw up sometimes. Coulda` used some of the newfangled weapons they have now to really good effect over there but we did OK with what we had.
I tried to get back to Nam after my convalescence but SF didn`t want me back because they were cutting back troop strength even in 1970, or so I was told.
I have become a professional archer because I love to "launch" things, LOL. Found Everette Cofer`s name in the casualty lists (killed April, 1970, RT team "pick", Cambodia) I was the radioman and had the adventure of a lifetime for a 20 year old kid. Everybody was much older than me so they called me "kid" or "boy" a lot. Don`t tell anyone else that! Still seems like a dream I had.... sometimes.........Steve Boylan

Email: boylans@gallatinriver.net

Home Town: Chillicothe, Illinois

Presently Living in: Pekin, Illinois