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JCook39.JPGFeb 1966113 viewsJoe notes: "Protecting Route 19 - Field Problem". Yep, fer shure. And Hwy 19 remained a "field problem years later, too.
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JCook85.JPGCSMO113 views"Close Station, March Order" - get the hell out of Dodge. Ammo placed in the A-22 slings. The 3/4 ton is loaded up with the FDC gear.
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JCook-109.JPGLooking more like a war zone now113 viewsBattery Commander Osborne has the troops in formation for a message. Probably told them to bathe more often. You can now see the glimmer and shine of stateside OD uniforms give way to continuous field duty. Certainly not how we started out!
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JCook-136.JPGA cloud of dust113 viewsLooking through the dust cloud, you can find the source....yep....it's a Chinook.
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JCook22y.JPGFDC Tent after Pink Kitty112 viewsThis new tent also served as the FDC sleeping quarters. The cot is in the background. This is a close-up view of the left end of the FDC tent with me at the Firing Chart.
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JCook53.JPGBreaking camp112 viewsAs per the cardboard mount, this photo indicates that B/2/9 is breaking camp with the 105mm ammo in "A-22" slings. This is the time when the FDC was located in a 3/4-ton truck.
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JCook32.JPGAlong Route 14109 viewsI am thinking this picture is early and probably is an "EARLY" attempt at building fox holes. We never had any training in Hawaii on foxhole digging. But we had to dig the BC's hole and the XO's in Hawaii. Lack of training shows here - I think we put it up for show and not survival. Again this early in Nam and might even be among the FIRST hole ever dug.
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JCook72.JPGChu Pung Mountains109 viewsThe Chu Pung Mountains. You can see the rain in the distance.
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JCook71.JPGChow Line109 viewsThe evening meal was almost always "A" Rations.
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JCook-137.JPGWhere is the drain plug?109 viewsLousy RSOP. We moved into this LZ the night before and it rained. Here's what we were greeted with the next morning. The gun spade of the base piece got stuck in the mud and we couldn't fire. We moved out of here.
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JCook-138.JPGWet LZ109 viewsGuess no one looked at the elevation of the LZ or how rainwater was supposed to drain off.
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Joe_and_the_Medic_3.JPGMore Cooking Lessons108 viewsMedic Riddle now teaches the BC, Capt Jack Osborne, about cooking in the field.
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