Most viewed - Michael Medley
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Building_LZ_Lois.JPGLZ Lois - Rebuilding99 viewsLZ Lois, rebuilding a RVN firebase.
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LZ_Abbey4.JPGLZ Abbey - Getting Clean99 views(continued) There is a funny story about LZ Abbey and the only South Vietnamese army soldier (Montagnards weren't South Vietnamese, they were good people) I saw in the field during my entire tour.
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LZ_Abbey.JPGLZ Abbey - Beautiful99 viewsLZ Abbey was as beautiful as LZ Tuffy was terrifying. It was near Bong Son. (continued).
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Hurdle___Medley.JPGHurdle & Medley98 viewsSp4 James A. "Jim" Hurdle and PFC Mike Medley. Taken right after I got to "A" Battery late May '69 at LZ St. George.
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LZ_Abbey5.JPGLZ Abbey - Getting totally clean98 views(closing) Since I had stayed behind on LZ Tuffy I went on the Advance Party to the next LZ, named LZ Suzie but not-so-fondly known by us as LZ "Suzie Pig". Another stupid blunder.
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LZ_Tuffy_-_Carl___Denny.JPGLZ Tuffy - 197097 viewsCarl (?), a new guy from Georgia, and Denny Mrowczynski, working the sandbagging detail.
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LZ_Marie.JPGLZ Marie97 viewsOn the ground, now...securing LZ Marie. After the guns got in, we got up a strand of concertina wire. I don't remember how long we were there, but one evening as the LPs were going out, the new grunt Platoon Leader had the rest of the platoon guarding the LZ in the middle with their weapons field stripped. Rookie mistake. The AKs started popping and the LPs came running back in under fire, followed by mortars (just 60 mikes) right behind them. One of the howitzers went to final protective fire (firecracker, crank it all the way up and down a couple of turns, charge 1 and .2 seconds I think it was). I think the other tube was loading beehive. Our eltee was in his hole down from me and I had the radios. Got in touch with the Battery at LZ Lois but there was a problem with the GT line. So we shot the firecracker. Nothing like the sound of 9 bomblets coming down on an incoming breeze to pucker one up. Only a couple of them landed in inside the perimeter. The only casualty - and this might be just wishful thinking garnered over the years, so I'd like confirmation from others - was the grunt eltee who got shrapnel in his rear.
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LZ_Abbey2.JPGLZ Abbey - the South China Sea97 views(continued) For the first time in Nam, I had the South China Sea on my map. We set up in a graveyard on top of a hill surrounded as a horseshoe by water.
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The_Soul_Section.JPGSoul Section97 viewsThe soul gun section chilling out. No names on the slide holder. While I recognize all of them, I don't want to put on wrong names.
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Hook_N__Go.JPGThar She Goes!96 viewsOne of our M-102 howitzers hooked up and lifting off for a hip shoot at LZ Cathy, September, 1969.
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FDO_Benton_and_XO_McKuen.JPGFDO and the XO96 views"A" Battery officers Lt Jerry R. Benton (FDO) and Lt McHugh (XO) touching the roof of the twin CONEX containers of the portable FDC. Note the trusty ol' pencil sharpener under Benton's right arm and a flashlight magnetized to the joint in the roof. Benton was later promoted to Captain.
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LZ_Lois_-_Inside_FB.JPGLZ Lois - Internal View of the FB 96 viewsI don't have many pictures of LZ Lois since I went on R&R to Hawaii a couple of weeks after leaving LZ St George and didn't have film until then. Spent very little time there since I went on a hip shoot to LZ Marie and then they called us back and moved the Brigade over the mountains to LZ Radcliffe and then on to LZ Tuffy.
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