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JCook19.JPG"Base Camp" - Jan 1966119 views"Base Camp" - We arrived on Jan 1966 (by Starlifter - C-141 on dirt runway) and as you see we are the only one in the area ('B' Battery 2/9 Field Artillery). We only called it "Base Camp" and by February we we in the 'boonies' and never saw Base Camp again. In Jan and Feb of 1966 we ONLY had tents. When I came back in (to rotate out) Dec 1966 there were walkways and wooden barracks and Mess hall.
This hole is where we later put in two CONEXs and made our FDC bunker. Left to Right: Sp4 James McBrayer, Jr, PFC Richard A. Williams.
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Joe_and_Medic_1.JPG119 viewsMore cooking lessons. Here, the Battery Medic (name is Riddle) watches how I cut a loaf of bread.
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JCook61.JPGSchool Girls119 viewsTwo school girls walking into Pleiku.
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JCook89.JPGHere...write this down119 viewsSp4 James McBrayer, Jr is giving me the coordinates for Battery Center
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Joe_Cook.JPGHere's where it all began119 views(2nd from right 1st row) While attending the NCO Academy at Ft Sill, I remember taking my turn to march the class. I marched them into the flower bed of the Officer's Training Barracks. I commanded 'Platoon,halt' and then 'about, face' and 'forward, march'. As I looked back I saw about 40 spots of (turning marks) marks in the flower bed gravel. So I then commanded 'double time,march'. A day or two later I was sent to California and then to Hawaii (on a PAN AM flight) and hooked up with the 2/9th.
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Joe_and_the_Medic_4.JPGHanging Out118 viewsSgt Joe Cook, UNK, and our Battery Medic Sp4 Riddle.
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JCook11a.jpgGI Coffee118 viewsAt least I can make coffee! Hard boil water, add grounds, turn off. Let grounds settle; scoop from top. That's GOOD black coffee. It is brown if not boiled hard.
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JCook38.JPGFrom the "Pink Kitty" to Tent City for the FDC118 viewsWe bailed out of the "Pink Kitty" FDC. Obviously, it was not sustainable in our new jungle environment. This GP-small tent also served as the FDC sleeping quarters.
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JCook21.jpg"Base Camp" - Jan 1966117 viewsThis is our FDC location at Base Camp, Pleiku, 11Jan66. Sp4 Larry L. Black is half-turned to the camera, Sp4 James McBrayer, Jr is using the pick to make foxholes, Huckaby is by the "Pink Kitty". The "Pink Kitty" is the FDC training trailer that we brought over from Hawaii. We decided later that a plywood FDC trailer above ground was not a smart move. The picture is looking north, northwest.
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JCook27.JPG"Base Camp" Haircut117 viewsGetting a haircut while part of my wash (see the green fatigues?) is hanging in the background. Note the 2/9th insignia on the barber's cap.
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Joe_and_the_Medic_2.JPG117 viewsI wasn't doing a good job, so the Medic took over. Note the surgical precision he uses to cut the bread. Medic Riddle was the same guy who attended to SSG David Spears who was KIA during a firing incident.
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JCook2a.JPG"B" Battery Officers117 viewsSame photo, minus the cardboard slide frame. Captains Barron, Rice & Osborne.
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