Name: WARD, Chester L.
Rank: Cpt
Retired Rank: BG
PMOS: 3100 / 61A / 000 SMOS: several Other: 1542, etc.
Groups:
5th SFGA
Teams/Camps in SE ASIA:
B5-120 / CanTho
Comments:
per records am retired X2 but per a recent patient: "Flunking" retirement
in "Superior" California: asssociated w/ two med gps, on staff @ 2
hospitals, Interim Med. Dir. for Northern California Emergency Services, Inc.
(covers 11 NE coounties in Cal.), on school board, etc.,etc., = will keep trying
to retire.
B-5/120: Our team was in RVN from 17 April thru 28 September 1964. The 5th Group's Colors were PCS'd to RVN o/a 01 Oct 64 w/ a lot of personnel PCSing in the next few months; the unit remaining @ Ft. Bragg was designated 5th SFGA (Prov). Our CO was MAJ James Lattimore & our SMAJ was Virgil West; we replaced the "B" Team commanded by MAJ Pete Gorvad (KIA as LTC [Inf Bn CO] in '68). Later Can Tho was manned by a "C" Team.
Email: traveldoc@sunset.net
Home Town: Van Nuys, Cal.
Presently Living in: Oroville, Cal.