Captain John Owens
by
Chuck "Doc" Kinler
Company B, 2/12th Cavalry
1970-1971
I remember Captain Owens, we called him Blivet. He was a little on the heavy side. He was always proud of his men. When we went on stand down for three days to the rear, he took us all to a fancy restaurant (fancy by the standards we had) I ate a huge pile of battered shrimp and we all drank wine. I remember looking at the REMFs and Blivet stumbling by and saying "It's about fucking time this place fed some heroes".
We all heard him and we would have followed him to hell after that.
My experience in the Cav was a very short one but one that will forever be etched in my mind.