SCOTTEVERETT

Interview with Everett Scott, transcript, 1973

 

1973-10-23

 

 

Everett "Scotty" Scott is a Vietnam veteran. His parents were living in Los Angeles at the time of the interview; he had three sisters. He joined the Navy in 1967 at age 17 and served in Vietnam for 18 months from late 1969 to 1971. He went to electronics school and "A" and "C" school. He worked on radio transmitters that were line-of-sight VHF equipment, ship-to-airborne or ship-to-shore. He was shipped from Travis Air Force Base to Da Nang after being told only that he was going "out of CONUS" [continental United States], meaning of which he did not know. On his first day his watch was stolen by a Vietnamese "cowboy" who cut it off his arm with a razor, and later a camera he had just bought from the military exchange was stolen as well. After a year in Vietnam he began to "rebel," but this experience is not covered by the transcript, which ends at about 50 minutes into the recording at EVERETTSCOTT.

Everett "Scottie" Scott; United States Navy; United States Ship Benewah; Jane Holt; Electronics school; Vietnam War; Vietnam veterans; I Corps; Eye Corps; Imperialism; Cowboys (Vietnam); C School (Navy); A School (Navy); Saigon; Helicopters in combat; Percussion grenades; Graves registration collection points (Vietnam); Patrol boats, river; PBRs; Army of the Republic of Vietnam; Marijuana use in Vietnam; Substance abuse in the military; Military drinking; Formaldehyde in beer; Military accidents; Racial integration in the military; Electronics technicians

 

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