One Nation, Under God
One Nation, Under God
Born and raised in Dodson, Carl Solberg left for Vietnam at the age of 19
A 19-year-old Carl Solberg in front of the mess hall on the Can Tho Army Airfield in Vietnam in 1966.
Having grown up on a farm in Northern Montana, I made plans to go into the Army early in high School. I was called to Vietnam when stationed in Germany, however getting to Vietnam from Germany turned out to be more than I had bargained for. I was allowed 30 days to get from Germany to Vietnam and my wish was to spend as much time with family as possible. Upon arriving in New Jersey, I discovered there was an airline strike in the US, so I spent a great deal of my leave aboard a bus traveling from the east coast to Montana.
In August 1966, when I arrived in Vietnam, there were about 450,...
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