Most viewed - Michael Medley
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Pups_Butch_and_Cruit.JPGOur Pups95 viewsOur pups "Butch" and "Cruit". The only thing I recall them barking at were Vietnamese and tigers outside the wire.
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Medley_and_Crew.JPGMeanwhile, back at St George94 viewsReturning back to LZ St. George from LZ Cathy photo of the September '69 crew: Sp4 Denny Mrowzinski, PFC Mike Medley, Sp4 George (Eugene) Jarisch and Sp5 Clint Curry. With our trusty power generator for the radios in the background. Enlarging the photo, you can see 1st Shirt Mac (McPeek) in the background complaining about something.
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SSG_Biggers.JPGSSG Kenneth "Bodie" Biggers94 viewsBodie Biggers a proud Texan and shake-n-bake E-6 as the honor graduate of the NCO school at Ft. Sill. Definite lifer tendencies, but a great guy who knew his stuff. He was FDC Section Chief and, I believe, later took over as Chief of Smoke when Chief went home. I think he received the Bronze w/V from the St. George fight. He brought back a pump pellet pistol from his R&R in Hawaii. The person sitting out a hand of Spades would use it to shoot at rats running across the CONEX "window".
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Not_Sure.JPGLikely taken around Sept/Oct, 1969.94 viewsNot sure where or when. Probably Sept/Oct '69. Getting ready to go out again (since I am wearing the flack jacket must be lifers in the background). Can't make out the folks behind me.
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LZ_Tuffy_-_New_Home.JPGLZ Tuffy - 197094 viewsFinished. A real tropical resort; the sand is mud. Home-No-So-Sweet-Home at LZ Tuffy.
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LZ_Tuffy_-_Built_up.JPGLZ Tuffy - 197094 viewsRadio City Music Hall. Nah, the dinks will never recognize the cleverly disguised antennas.
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LZ_Marie_-_2_Tube_Hipshoot.JPGLZ Marie94 viewsLZ Marie secured and ready for inbound tubes (Jim Hurdle on left, Carl from Georgia kneeling next to him).
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Hillbilly.JPGSent to me by others93 views"Hillbilly" and canine friend behind one of the old split-trail 105mm.
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LZ_Lois_-_DJ_and_Starlets.JPGLZ Lois - Christmas, 196993 views"Cruit", center of photo, always wore his airborne wings. Came to the battery from the infantry as a gun bunny, wanted to be FDC and we were getting really short so he came onboard. I captioned this on the slide as "Cruit finds a girl his own size". No matter how much we picked on him, Cruit was always smiling and happy-go-lucky.
Note the "hippie" headband and long, straight hair on the chick. Boy, we didn't know what was waiting down the road for us, eh?
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LZ_Tuffy_-_A_Dozen_Eggs.JPGLZ Tuffy - 1970 Breakfast coming up93 viewsGotta love the Army's massive tail, they know just what the tooth needs. Carl and (I think) the Chief picking up rations - raw eggs. They sent us thousands of raw eggs. Just what you need when you can't get a fire going and there is nothing larger than a canteen cup to cook in. Unfortunately Jim Hurdle's stainless steel pot went back to the World with him. Necessity is truly a mother, excess powder bags burn and helmets hold water. Soft boiled or hard?
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Road_Views_Christmas.JPGRoadside view93 viewsConstruction along the road always varied greatly in type and quality.
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BC-_Hillbilly.JPGSent to me by others92 viewsBack of photo says "BC & Hillbilly". Pictures were sent to me over the years by Tex Shelton and Jackie Catron; most were taken before I arrived at the battery.
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