Short Rounds Newsletter

From Your President: A Birthday Tribute to Marine Corps Veterans Honoring Courage, Sacrifice, and Brotherhood On this 250th anniversary of the United States Marine Corps, I extend my deepest gratitude and respect to each of you.   As we celebrate this proud tradition, we honor the men and women who have worn the eagle, globe,…

Red Clay Magazines- Every Single One Your new KSV website khesanh.vet is full of just tons of great materials.  We believe the hallmark feature is digitally providing you every single Red Clay ever printed.  And in two formats: (1) The high resolution individual issues for you to read, copy and then paste to share, print…

Khe Sanh Veterans Short Round Newsletter #011    Honoring Our Fallen And Their Families. We have no higher obligation and duty.  For decades, we have honored our Khe Sanh Fallen by publishing their obituaries and details about them in our Red Clay magazine.  Moving forward, with your help, we will continue this tradition. In addition,…

Khe Sanh Veterans Short Round Newsletter #010 KSV Scholarships The KSV Scholarship Program is one of the most important things we do as an organization. By helping the direct relatives of our members succeed in a higher education, we keep the memories of what happened at Khe Sanh alive for generations to come. Khe Sanh…

Khe Sanh Veterans Short Round Newsletter #009    Your Photos, Please Every picture is worth 1,000 words.  In our case, every Khe Sanh photo taken has a story that is important to someone.  And may be important to many.  We want to share your photos on our new website in a Updated Photo Album Bunker…

Khe Sanh Veterans Short Round Newsletter #008 KSV Member Communications As much as it pains us, we are now forced to use group emails and texts to stay in contact our membership.  With several hundred members and very limited administrative staff, we will have to reach out to our members using a mailing service, which…

Reunion 2025 Grab your beach blanket and sunscreen and join us for the 2025 KSV Reunion!  We are gearing up for a fun time at the superb Holiday Inn Resort, Pensacola Beach, FL  The dates are October 12 – 19, 2025.  The resort is right on the Gulf (Of America) beach. Sand in your toes…

Refurbished Message Board We have been agonizing about whether or not to include the prior message board on our new KSV website. It has been an “open access” message board in the past.  The obvious negatives are that anyone can jump on there and post all kinds of horrible materials.  Once our website has that…

Help Desk Kathy is organizing a group of volunteers to not only forward all incoming email appropriately (Short Round 004), but to also serve as our “Help Desk Team”. This is really a great step forward. Any questions you have about anything to do with KSV, the Help Desk will try to resolve the issue…

KSV Members Private Email Using Our KSV Private (Email) Mailbox: admin@khesanh.vet Amazingly, in our lifetimes, the digital world has migrated from punch cards to ubiquitous Internet and social media.  When we were in Vietnam, large portions of our payrolls were processed with huge trays of 80 column punchcards. At that time, the biggest danger of…