The Mighty Ninth

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JO-4.JPGReunion Photos - Jerry Orr148 viewsMike Kurtgis objects! "But wait a minute, Drill Sergeant! What if I don't want to get up at 0500?"
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DY-6.JPGReunion Photos - Danny Yates147 viewsInside the training living quarters. Our Guide indicates that all trainees must be at least this tall...or whatever he was pointing out.
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DY-7.JPGReunion Photos - Danny Yates147 viewsOur basic training troops in action. Les Cotton is in the forefront with his cowboy hat.
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WTC-6.JPGReunion Photos - Wayne Crochet147 viewsThe "Dining Facility" has replaced the "mess hall" and YOU WILL eat healthy foods, soldier!!! AND...you can have anything to drink as long as it's water. Our active duty host, LTC Marcus Jones stands in front of a color-coded menu.
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DY-12.jpgReunion Photos - Danny Yates147 viewsFt Sill's warfare training includes urban-warfare based scenarios as our Instructor guides through a mock-up building. This whole training format used highly technical Hollywood-like sound stages with several technicians behind the scenes to manipulate the settings.
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SR-12.jpgReunion Photos - Stu Royle147 viewsStack Arms! Yes...they still stack arms in the field.
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SR-10.jpgReunion Photos - Stu Royle147 viewsField Firing Demo: these are our replacements, guys! Do they look good or what?
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JO-2.JPGReunion Photos - Jerry Orr147 viewsMy Good Buddy! Maj Jerry Orr greets 1SG Doucette as we tour the BCT barracks; actually, it's more like a dormitory.
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MB-9.jpgThe Waldman Collection - Mattie Beal House Tour147 views"What? There's still a mortgage on this place?"
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THANKS_JERRY.jpgThe Waldman Collection - We Arrive147 viewsCowboy Danny Fort presents a plaque to Host Jerry Orr at the Lawton Country Club as thanks for all the hours, effort and coordination it took working with the Ft Sill staff to allow us on post for a historic reunion some 40-odd years after we served in Vietnam.
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DF-17.JPGReunion Photos - Danny "Cowboy" Fort146 viewsWell, maybe veterans Geary Burrows and Jim Connolly didn't care for the food, but Terry Stuber is ready to go back for more. Featured dessert item was soft-serve ice cream in both vanilla and chocolate flavors.
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DY-1.JPGReunion Photos - Danny Yates146 viewsThe 2/9th FA Commemorative Coin: Our Reunion Organizer, Maj Jerry Orr, presented each redleg veteran attending the reunion with a commemorative coin at the concluding Friday night banquet. Barbara Moeller, who assisted Jerry with the tours, presented the ladies with an initial charm.
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