>When I was in VietNam with the Marine Corps,  I was the diving
>supervisor of 1st Recon in addition to being a bush rat. I was issued
>a diving watch made by Blancpain that had Tritium on the dial
>markings. I got shot up and blown up  down near Thuong Duc and
>medevaced to a hospital ship. When my CO came to visit me his first
>question was "Where's the watch?" the second was, "How was I
>feeling?" It wasn't a surprise though, a month or two before that,
>one of my divers was taking a VC equivalent of an IED off a bridge,
>having removed the initiator from the main charge it went off
>messing up his hand some, but shredding the watch band, the watch was
>lost, though we looked for it for hours. It must have cost me 20
>hours of paper work! The watch I was wearing had two pieces of wire
>from the explosion nailed straight through the crystal and through
>the face ... It didn't work too well any more. I am glad the Colonel
>go to do the paperwork on that one ... sigh ... the memories!

Pity you don't still have it. One came up on the new edition of the Antiques
Roadshow here in the UK, last Sunday, and was estimated at GBP 20,000. It
was reputed to have come from the wrist of a German who was attempting to
blow up the big bridge during the battle of Arnhem, although there was no
supporting documentation for this.

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