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Adrian Cronauer, the real live DJ portrayed by Robin Williams in the movie "Good Morning Vietnam" just passed, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44897634 (many other obits also available).
Keen to travel, Cronauer says he actually volunteered for a transfer to Vietnam, where he was hired initially as a news director for Armed Forces Radio there.
After his morning presenter left, he took up the 06:00 Dawn Buster show mantle, greeting troops with an enthusiastic yell of: "GOOOOOOOOD morning, Vietnam!"
Cronauer soon found out while interviewing troops that his ironic salute was often met with "the GI equivalent of: Get stuffed Cronauer" on bad days, he recounted at a veterans event in 2008.
"On one occasion, a guy picked up his M16 and blew away his radio," he told the Americans Veterans Centre conference.
Did any Soylentils hear him — live — in Vietnam?
(Score: 3, Informative) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday July 22 2018, @11:59AM
But we lived in Italy at the time.
I remember hearing about Apollo 13 as my mother, my older sister and I drove from Formia to Brindisi so we could ride on a cruise ship to somewhere in Greece so we could meet my father, and then from there play tourist in Athens. We even got to visit the Acropolis - it's closed to the public now, because the tourists were pilfering bits of incredibly valuable as well as completely irreplaceable bits of the stone from which the Acropolis was carved.
Whenever the USS Springfield went anywhere that was reasonably un-war-torn, the Navy wives would organize just such an excursion.
Dad was an Anti-Aircraft Missile Fire Control Officer. I always wondered why there was just this one ship at the USN's very, very small base in Gaeta, rather than at their huge base in Naples.
Eventually I clued in to that the Springfield was _anwhere_ other than Naples so as to keep the Soviet Navy from sinking the Mediterranean fleet's commanding Admiral when they nuked Naples. That Admiral was aboard the Springfield. The ship itself had a Captain; the only orders the Admiral gave to any of the Springfield's crew was to tell them where to sail it to.
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