I showed up a Camp Hovey in July of '87. Half of the Cohort Tomahawk Company had left the day before I got there and the other half that remained had to stay about a month. Love extended for another year and I was in the same platoon as him for the DMZ Mission from Sept to Dec 1987. CPT Boyd Brooks was the Company Commander and he was eventually replaced by CPT Kanamine.
Because you were located by the pool and bowling alley, I knew right away that you were in B Company because they did not change the company name, just the battalion name. My prior military experience was with Charlie Company, 504th Infantry, ABN at Fort Bragg, '76 to '79.
Eventualy, the remaining Cohort guys started to leave and it was kinda sad in that they had been together since Basic Trng-about 4 years- and were in many cases very close friends.
Entry: 8653
CAMP HOVEY 1986-87 FT. LEWIS COHORT
ED ZAMORA wrote on August 14, 2020
Albuquerque NM
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1/23 inf reg. Redesignated 1/503. 2id
Entry: 8650
CAMP HOVEY 1986-87 FT. LEWIS COHORT
EDWARD ZAMORA wrote on August 11, 2020
Albuquerqque NM
Comments:
Don't remeber much, except our company was next to the outdoor pool and bowling alley. Here are some guys names: Offut, Cook, Mechelkie, Hartman, Gruver, Ross, Bishop, Fauts, Palko, Love, Roland, Edie, Bengamin Mc Clintok, Felder, Decker, Fallstadt, Sgt. Levis.
I also remember one of the dmz lp/op was burned down, north korean flag at half mast, chaka khan and Loretta Lynn came.
Sullivan stabbed Rico in head with a tent peg. Love punched Mechelke. Mechelkie hit marine in face with pool que. Offut and cook beat up fouts. Fouts attacked zamora. Ross broke new glasses in bar fight. Cook broken hearted over seattle girlfriend. Sgt. Johnson went awol in TDC. Crazy guys. Tomahawk!
