Taken from RECOLLECTIONS: Vietnam Stevedores 1968 by Mark Fooks:
When was the last time you read a story about US Army Stevedores in Vietnam? Never you say. Well then read on, I was one by chance. In November 1968 I was flown into Vietnam to the 90th Replacement Camp when an E-6 SSgt stuck his arm into our group and yelled: "You 20 men get your asses on that deuce and a half the United States Army needs Stevedores today!" I had thought I was going to MACV HQ's to work with data processing equipment which was what I had been doing at Pier 91 in Seattle, Washington prior to getting my orders to Vietnam. Few of us had Stevedore Military Occupational Specialities "MOS's" but that was what we were about to become.
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