Update January 5, 2019

1/83rd Unit News and General News	1. Health Survey - I am hoping to re-do the Healthy Survey in 2019 that we did a few years ago in 2012. With all that has been going on I thought it would be helpful to do this. I will shortly begin reviewing the prior survey too see if any revisions or updates need to be made. The prior survey can be found on this page. Take a look and if you have any suggestions for additional questions or revisions let me know. 2. Agent Orange Newsletter - Here is the latest edition of that publication. 3. Australia Day - January 26 is Australia Day. Here is more on that occasion. 4. Support - Please let me know if anyone of you or your family have health situations so we can let everyone know of the need for our support. 5. News - if you have any good news that you want to share send it along. Having good news to share would be a real pleasure, as it seems like we are constantly only talking about sad news. Here is the latest 1/83rd News.
Interesting Links and More	1. American Veterans Center - Battle of the Bulge. 2. Morri Major (66-67) sent this link, Big Guns of the Vietnam War. 3. David Boroff (75-77) sent this link, Building The Ultimate Artillery Gun. This is interesting and educational. 4. Dan O'Brien (69-70) sent this link, How a Combat Photographer Named a Phenomenon to Honor Soldiers.
Did you Know	In a bid to keep the ingredients secret, WD-40 was never patented. (Courtesy of How-To Geek Newsletter)
1/83rd Website	1. Please let me know if you come across any links in my website that are broken. With so much content, it is inevitable that links go out of date so let me know if you find one that does not work. 2. If you come across anything that you think may be a good addition to our website let me know. Also, if you have any questions or suggestions regarding the website, let me know. 3. Check out all the latest updates by looking at the website Table of Contents.
Vietnam Veterans of America	1. VVA website
1/83rd Roster	Full Roster on Website - Check your entry on the Full Roster to make sure all your information is up to date. Notify me if any changes are necessary. If your email stops working, I cannot reach you if you have incomplete or incorrect contact details on the roster. I have recently become aware of several changes to contact info. It is important that you keep your contact information up to date on the Roster, it is the only that your buddies can find you! Let me know when things change. Please remember that all contact info that we have for our group can be found on the Full Roster. This is the best spot to start if you need to contact one of the group.
Missing members of the 1/83rd	Help us find those former 83rd members who haven't found us yet!! There is a long-standing page on our website where I list men that are either missing, inactive or trying to be located by someone in our group. I am asking everyone to review that page and let me know if you have updates you would like me to make. I am sure that each of us has someone they would really like to reconnect with. If we all pitch in, we may find many more of our old buddies. Here are some ways to do that: 1. If you are in contact or have contact info for any 1/83rd guys please contact them and tell them about our group or at least tell me and I will contact them. 2. Look through the roster on the website and if you know of others who are not listed, let me know who they are. Also, if you see any incorrect or missing info (including your own entry) let me know. 3. If you have copies of old orders tucked away someplace, send me a copy so I can make sure those names are on the roster. 4. Sometimes all it takes is a name and location and we can find someone but the more details we know the better our chances.
Rules & Regs	If anyone would like a current copy of the "Rules & Regs" document which has helpful information about using the website, let me know. Go to Contact Us and submit your request or email me directly.
Advisory	If you get an email from and it has a website link included anywhere within the email, most times you should be able to just click on the link and you will be taken to the website. Sometimes however, the link will not work because, in sending you the email, the link is deactivated although it is still usable. If this should happen, another way to use the link is to copy and paste it into the address line on your browser. Please be sure to let me know if you have any questions on this. Please make sure that your email system allows emails to be received from both of my email addresses, bill_t_08012@yahoo.com and artillery_83rd@yahoo.com