Most viewed - 2-9th Reunion
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Price_Reunion_11.jpgReunion Photos - Dave Price168 viewsThe reunion agenda included an invitation to a retirement ceremony on the Old Post grounds... a great historic site at Ft. Sill. The horse-drawn caisson passes in review.
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WTC-8.JPGReunion Photos - Wayne Crochet168 viewsThat ol' gang of mine...our redleg vets pose for a photo just after the retirement ceremony. We probably thought the ceremony was for us.
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Price_Reunion_3.jpgReunion Photos - Dave Price166 viewsBANG! There is goes. The compression was just as powerful as the sound of the cannon being fired.
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Price_Reunion_9.jpgReunion Photos - Dave Price163 viewsAh...the great memories of the FDC tools we used in Vietnam. The only thing missing is the CONEX container that provided a 24-hr protected work environment. Without that, the FDC would be out of commission and unable to operate with the weather extremes found in the jungle. The "tent FDC" shown was a "first effort", but very untenable; we would be chasing maps and papers all over the place.
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Price_Reunion_13.jpgReunion Photos - Dave Price163 viewsRetirement ceremony - passing in review.
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DF-6.JPGReunion Photos - Danny "Cowboy" Fort163 viewsRob Smitha takes a photo outside the training building on our first day at Sill.
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Price_Reunion_8.jpgReunion Photos - Dave Price162 viewsVisit to the Ft Sill Museum: The FADAC - "Field Artillery Digital Analog Computer". It was the field artillery's first attempt to use a "computer" back in the 1960s for fire direction computation of deflection and quadrant elevation. It didn't prove itself at Ft Sill and neither in Vietnam. We were better with the training gained from spending weeks in Snow Hall.
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Price_Reunion_12.jpgReunion Photos - Dave Price162 viewsAfter the retirement ceremony, we were able to get a close-up view of the caisson.
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Aiming_Cir-1.JPGHoneycutt Road161 viewsIn the background, Bldg 5676, Allin Hall, formerly the BOQ, opened in October, 1965. The "twin tower", Bldg 5678, Aultman Hall, was opened shortly after. Both BOQs are now "hotels".
Remember Honeycutt Road? That's where you learned how to "lay the battery" with an M2 Aiming Circle. This area will become a parking lot for a new elementary school to replace the very old Geronimo school. I guess that's just "SADULU" for the old training site on the prominent ridge line of Honeycutt Road.
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Price_Reunion_10.jpgReunion Photos - Dave Price161 viewsAfter the retirement ceremony, the 2/9th FA reunion agenda included a "story telling" at the Old Post Buffalo Soldiers barracks area. Retired SGM Wallace Moore was dressed in period uniform to recount the history of the Buffalo Soldiers and the history of the era.
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DF-1.JPGReunion Photos - Dnny "Cowboy" Fort161 viewsVeteran Bill Kull and wife Linda attending the 2/9th Reunion at Ft Sill.
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Aiming_Cir-3.JPGSurveyed Sites for the Aiming Circle160 viewsThis is a larger view, looking down the line of surveyed stakes for training on the M2 Aiming circle, looking toward Honeycutt Road. This is now a rare photograph; it was taken just as the contractors were setting up shop to build a parking lot here.
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