Most viewed - Michael Medley
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Road_Views_Christmas.JPGRoadside view123 viewsConstruction along the road always varied greatly in type and quality.
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PFC_Denny_Mrowcyznski.JPGPFC Mrowczynski122 viewsDenny Mrowczynski standing at entrance to FDC/1st Sgt hooch at LZ St. George.
Note volleyball in the background and a mess tent. We only had it for a short time until one of the cooks burned to death while filling a stove. {See "TAPS" - PFC Odell Easley}
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LZ_Lois_-_FDC_area.JPGLZ Lois - FDC Area122 viewsL to R: Far left, can't make him out; next is Lt Harry Baumgartner (Lt Richard L. Baumgartner). For some reason, he was nicknamed "Black Bart" - probably because of the attempted moustache. Then Sp4 Jim Hurdle, Carl from Georgia, and in the background is PFC William ("Nan The Man"), aka "PigPen" Nankervis (deceased). He is probably dreaming about the World and returning to be the left bank cylinder man at Ford's East Lansing plant.
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On_the_road_Christmas.JPGRoad beggars121 viewsWe took along a bunch of those tropical chocolate bars and threw them out to the begging kids along the road. What intrigues me about this photo is that, as we went over a hill, I looked back and saw the kids pulling down the flag. That says a lot.
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CH_liftoff-RedFox_Hop.JPGMove to LZ Red Fox120 viewsMoving to LZ Red Fox for a hip shoot.
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Screen.JPG"Please don't feed..."120 viewsI'm standing in front of the B-40 screen around the FDC conex (all the commo antennas made it a tempting target). The sign on the fence reads: "Please do not feed the animals).
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LZ_Abbey3.JPGLZ Abbey - Great RSOP120 views(continued) While some of us who stayed behind and were temporarily detained for some time, the rest had been going down to the water in parties of 20. Five on either side while ten bathed, we had slightly less in our group when we got there.
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Hook_N__Go.JPGThar She Goes!119 viewsOne of our M-102 howitzers hooked up and lifting off for a hip shoot at LZ Cathy, September, 1969.
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LZ_Tuffy_-_Shithook_arrives.JPGLZ Tuffy - 1970119 viewsA CH-47 Chinook (Shithook) arrives to bring in a M102 howitzer.
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Guns___Ammo.JPGMove to LZ Red Fox116 viewsThis photo and the next are of a shithook lifting a gun and net with 10 rounds and stakes to set up for firing as soon as landed. I wasn't a cannon cocker so I don't remember the name of the delicate gizmo for the gun, which went in with advance party to the new LZ before the guns were lifted.
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1stSgt_McPeek.JPGFirst Shirt114 views1SG James E. McPeek; he was the First Sgt. We didn't get along. He lived in the FDC bunker and he was a big poker player, going to the rear for the $100s of dollar pots. He had a poker game going in the front of the bunker. I was not a poker player and had to write down what-beats-what. I won a few bucks, he got pissed, and from then on wanted me off the FB. Don't know when he went home, but it was none too soon for me. Fortunately McHugh (XO) saved me since I could do a high-burst registration.
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LZ_Lois_-_RandR.JPGLZ Lois - Me114 viewsI'm back from R&R after going AWOL at the AF barracks at Pleiku Airbase until I could hook a ride back to the battery. After being to Enari for the first time in almost seven months before R&R, I couldn't bear relieving the REMFs from bunker guard duty so they could go to clubs and drink the Bud that never made it to the field.
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