Most viewed - 2-9th Reunion
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Aiming_Cir-2.JPGM2 Aiming Circle - Surveyed stake146 viewsYou set up the tripod, hung the plumb-bob & centered it, levelled your bubbles, and computed your SADULU. It is going to be paved over as a parking lot. Just another Ft Sill memory.
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Price_Reunion_11.jpgReunion Photos - Dave Price146 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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Price_Reunion_3.jpgReunion Photos - Dave Price141 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 Price140 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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Aiming_Cir-1.JPGHoneycutt Road139 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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Arr-7.jpgThe Waldman Collection - We Arrive139 viewsGathering in the Lobby for the historic reunion at Ft Sill, OK. The weather outside took a serious turn for the worse as evening arrived.
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Price_Reunion_8.jpgReunion Photos - Dave Price138 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_13.jpgReunion Photos - Dave Price138 viewsRetirement ceremony - passing in review.
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Aiming_Cir-3.JPGSurveyed Sites for the Aiming Circle137 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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Price_Reunion_7.jpgReunion Photos - Dave Price137 viewsThe Paladin 155mm howitzer firing during the demonstration.
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DF-6.JPGReunion Photos - Danny "Cowboy" Fort137 viewsRob Smitha takes a photo outside the training building on our first day at Sill.
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DF-1.JPGReunion Photos - Dnny "Cowboy" Fort137 viewsVeteran Bill Kull and wife Linda attending the 2/9th Reunion at Ft Sill.
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