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Joe_and_the_Medic_2.JPG134 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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JCook21.jpg"Base Camp" - Jan 1966133 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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JCook2a.JPG"B" Battery Officers133 viewsSame photo, minus the cardboard slide frame. Captains Barron, Rice & Osborne.
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JCook57.JPGAPC133 viewsIn the background is an APC of the 135th. To the center right is a piss tube. You probably don't want to know what is in the cut-off barrels in the foreground.
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JCook45a.JPGSpoils of war133 viewsCaptured enemy grenades. Also known as "potato mashers".
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JCook22d.JPGUnderground Bunker - the orginal CONEX FDC concept133 viewsThe next change for our FDC operations was CONEX containers. We buried two (2) CONEX containers in Base Camp. They were dug in with the help of a bulldozer. They were facing each other, dropped into the hole and covered with sandbags. We made a "sandbag staircase" to get back to the surface. I don't know how this would work out in monsoon season. Inside the containers, we used red lights at night and white lights during the day. We moved in our standard field tables for the charts and placed the radios on ammo boxes.
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JCook94.JPGAmmo Dump - Tea Plantation133 viewsUnsecured and unprotected ammo supply at the Tea Plantation forward area.
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JCook26.jpgLZ Oasis132 viewsLanding our gear at LZ Oasis.
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JCook46a.JPGMore spoils of war132 viewsNote RPGs...one of the enemy's most effective weapons.
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JCook89.JPGHere...write this down132 viewsSp4 James McBrayer, Jr is giving me the coordinates for Battery Center
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JCook-132.JPGNo homeowners insurance132 viewsNote the "hooch" that appears just below the belly of the Chinook. After the Chinook lifts off, there is no more "hooch".
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JCook52.JPGTonight's Entree131 viewsThis lizard came into our AO and didn't live to tell about it.
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