Most viewed - Michael Medley
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LZ_Tuffy_-_Moving_In.JPGLZ Tuffy - 1970138 viewsLZ Tuffy now has our CONEX landed.
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Candy_Kids.JPGCandy Kids135 viewsGood catch, candy in one hand and camera in the other. These kids are quick, and if a little taller and they would make great NBA defensive players or NFL quarterbacks.
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Mr_Kool_Aid.JPGMr. Kool-Aid135 viewsKool-Aid, a "Shake-n-Bake" Section Chief from Pennsylvania, was being a good guy until he threw the bag to candy to me. Thanks a lot, dude.
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Cpt_Williams_NG.JPGBC John S. Williams134 viewsCaptain Williams was the BC when I got to the battery. He was a great troop leader but I believe he was relieved when rear Battalion brass visited. We were trying to save rounds from a flooded ammo bunker. The brass did not like that all of us were shirtless, including the BC, and that he was actually helping hump rounds. There was a few words exchanged between Williams and the basecamp brass, which they apparently also disliked.
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Clint_Curry,_Hooking_Up.JPGHooking up the CH-47134 viewsExciting task. Who wants to do it? Well, here's Sp5 Clint Curry volunteering to get under the mechanical beast. My notes indicate Clint was hooking up the howitzer for a hip shoot on LZ Cathy as it lifted off in Sept, 1969. The Advance Party discovered the proposed LZ wasn't ready and they used up all our C-4 cooking supplies to blow down trees. I still remember the lousy smell of those heat tabs....ugh.
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LZ_Tuffy_-_Built_up.JPGLZ Tuffy - 1970133 viewsRadio City Music Hall. Nah, the dinks will never recognize the cleverly disguised antennas.
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On_the_road_-_Christmas.JPGBegging for candy133 viewsMore of those tropical chocolate bars going out to the kids alongside the road.
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Clint_Curry,_Sept,_1969.JPGPortable Generator132 viewsSp5 Clint Curry (Deceased, 4/18) sits on the jeep that was used as our portable big radio generator at LZ St George that we lifted out on hip shoots. It was later totalled and dx'd with less than 100 miles on the odometer. A combat casualty.
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Hillbilly.JPGSent to me by others132 views"Hillbilly" and canine friend behind one of the old split-trail 105mm.
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McKuen_-_Richardson.JPGLt Jim McHugh and BC Capt Richardson131 viewsLt McHugh, XO, and BC Richardson inside the FDC CONEX. I recall that McHugh's dad was a full bird colonel. He started college at VMI and dropped out first year and went through OCS. He was a 20 year-old 1st LT as XO. Really a great kid (I was 23). Between the two of us we could do a high burst registration, which helped keep me around. He knew his stuff, but we loved to fool around with him. He wanted to fire the battery in strict accordance with the FM6-40, but FDC was more conscious of potential "check-fire" situations. We got the section chiefs on the guns to go along with us, so rather than argue with him we just said "yes sir". So the next thing is McHugh: "Battery" then the Chiefs:"Platoons", McHugh: "fire" followed by a ragged "bang . . . bang bang . . . bang . . bang (we only had 5 tubes at the time). He came into FDC and we offered to show him how to do it. Chief: "Battery ready", Me: "Battery fire" BANG in perfect unison.
(Note. Lt McKugh died on December 8, 2017 from cancer.)
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LZ_Tuffy_-_New_Home.JPGLZ Tuffy - 1970131 viewsFinished. A real tropical resort; the sand is mud. Home-No-So-Sweet-Home at LZ Tuffy.
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Best_Buddies_-_Modern_Day.JPGBest Buddies - a few years later131 viewsWell, more than a few. Clint "McClintock" Curry (left, deceased 4/18) and Mike Medley at their reunion, March 2011.
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