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Turner_44.jpgA WELCOME sight, fer shure151 viewsCam Ranh Bay...in all of its glory. Note the aircraft boarding stairs with the inscription "Cam Ranh Bay" and the soldiers wearing khaki uniforms. We made it out of the jungle. Next stop: US
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Turner_80.jpgRoad March151 viewsThe difference between the Transportation Corps and the Infantry is......
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TR12.jpgMoving Time151 viewsAnother move, another 1,000 sandbags. Think we got a little muddy in the process. Next to me is Joe Goldstein with those ever classic military style glass frames.
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TS-54.JPGGetting Set Up151 viewsGary Strochein setting up commo for the day we arrived in the Chu Pa Mountains...Spring, 1969.
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Guyton_North.jpgCongrats, Wardell151 viewsWardell Guyton is congratulated by Ollie North upon his retirement.
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MTL-17.jpgHappy New Year - 1969151 viewsLocal South Vietnam friends. A New Year's celebration with lots of drinking. All of them wanted to go to America with me.
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File_4-2.JPGPuffing away151 viewsCigarettes were a way of life back then. FO Lt Joe Hannigan (foreground) plots our location. You must always know where you are in the jungle. Lt Hannigan was always on top of his game. You couldn't ask for a better FO and a nicer guy. {See next photo: RTO Mike Pskowski was identified in the summer of 2014 by his family who contacted the website.}
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Rick_E_6-2.JPGTrying to destroy ammo151 viewsThis is a better look at one of the rounds without a fuze that was attempted to be destroyed with C4 and det cord.
The outcome was almost a disaster!
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JCook36.JPGFresh Haircut151 viewsPhoto taken at Bien Ho, a lake near our base camp at Pleiku. This is the lake where we did laundry alongside the Vietnamese.
Sgt Joe Cook poses with two Vietnamese children. The boy next to Joe spoke English; his name is "Co" and he is wearing Joe's hat (backwards, naturally). The boy in the white shirt is Con Tin. Picture taken before our 'B" Battery ever went to the field to stay. Date, approximately January 1966. Joe is sporting a new haircut from a Vietnamese barber.
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SG-1.JPGLeaving English behind151 viewsAfter we left LZ English (Bong Son), we set up for a few days on the edge of a runway where a Caribou or two would land quite close. This was just prior to "A" Btry flying off to Kontum from AFB Phu Cat.
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JM-21.JPGDamn...the thing works!151 viewsSame as photo JM-20. Somebody send a "Flash" message to Ft. Sill.
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JM-23.JPGYe Olde TOC151 viewsThe old TOC making way for a new one.
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