| Daniel A. Nutter Sr. of Milo has been a member of the Joseph P Chaisson American Post 41 for six years.
Danny shares some memories of his military service during the Vietnam War era. Dan volunteered for the draft and entered the United States Army in fall of 1967, attending basic training at Fort Dix New Jersey, Advance training at Fort Gordon, GA in radio communications with secondary skill as Infantry.
Upon completion he was assigned to the 501st Signal Battalion, 101st Airborne Division (Screaming Eagles) and flew into Tan Son Naut AFB, Saigon, South Vietnam is September, 1968.
Dan had a week to receive in-country training, adjust to the heat and draw his weapon and combat gear where upon completion he flew to Danang AFB and then loaded up into a deuce and half truck and transported to Hue Phi Bai, the base camp for the 101st Airborne Division. Dan was assigned to 501st Signal platoon and began performing radio communications out of Camp Eagle, supporting many fire bases within the near vicinity of the City of
Hue. He was part of the signal support involved in the A Shau Valley battle known at hill 937 or “Hamburger Hill”.
He remembers being at the Eagles Nest fire base that overlooks A Shau Valley when the engineers were blasting trees to clear the fire base. Without warning, debris struck one of his buddies in the head and a medi-vac was needed to fly him out for medical treatment.
One event sticks out in his mind when during a monsoon he had to climb up an eighty foot tower and reattached an antenna that had blown over. Only one man could climb the tower, it was impossible to see the ground with darkness, low cloud cover, heavy rains and very high winds but it had to be done. Dan was unable to see how much the tower was swaying but he has
never forgotten the experience.
In August of 1969 he moved to Camp Carrol, and then flew out of Danang AFB to Fort Lewis, WA where he was eventually discharged and returned to the Milo area. | |
- DANIEL A. NUTTER, SR. 
