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bertku.jpgThe Big Moment!138 viewsThe big moment has arrived! Capt Dave Collins attaches the "Bert-ku" award to the recipient. His "buddy" Ed Thomas is about to fall over laughing.
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File_3-3.JPGEntrenching Tool138 viewsThe US Army entrenching tool....the time-honored way to dig your hole and doubles as a weapon also.
Actually, I was warning the Capt Jerry Roberts, the "B" Company commander, (at left) to get us out of the f-g mountains...it was too g-d cold!
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File_3-6.JPG"Got any Tabasco?"138 viewsTypical C-ration "meal-in-the-field". Sp4 Rick Ericksen here..."should I really eat this stuff or just give it to the VC?"
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Tex_3-6.JPGSection Home138 viewsThis is where we lived.
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Tex_5-3.JPGDog Hero138 viewsOur pup named "Short Round" was awarded two Purple Hearts.
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JCook29.JPGFDC Tent - Field Version - May 1966138 viewsAfter the "Pink Kitty", after the GP-small above-ground tent, after the submerged CONEX containers, this is what my FDC looked like out in the "boonies". Our FDC was arranged in a horseshoe trench; we could maneuver around the firing charts. The Operation was "Paul Revere"; the location is south of Duc Co".
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JCook-133.JPGWaiting138 viewsSitting here waiting on a Chinook...but ready for a fire mission. Head phones are nearby.
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Cover_1.jpgProgram: 35th Infantry Regiment Reunion138 viewsProgram Cover
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Aiming_Cir-3.JPGSurveyed Sites for the Aiming Circle138 viewsThis is a larger view, looking down the line of surveyed stakes for training on the M2 Aiming circle, looking toward Honeycutt Road. This is now a rare photograph; it was taken just as the contractors were setting up shop to build a parking lot here.
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Price_Reunion_8.jpgReunion Photos - Dave Price138 viewsVisit to the Ft Sill Museum: The FADAC - "Field Artillery Digital Analog Computer". It was the field artillery's first attempt to use a "computer" back in the 1960s for fire direction computation of deflection and quadrant elevation. It didn't prove itself at Ft Sill and neither in Vietnam. We were better with the training gained from spending weeks in Snow Hall.
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Price_Reunion_10.jpgReunion Photos - Dave Price138 viewsAfter the retirement ceremony, the 2/9th FA reunion agenda included a "story telling" at the Old Post Buffalo Soldiers barracks area. Retired SGM Wallace Moore was dressed in period uniform to recount the history of the Buffalo Soldiers and the history of the era.
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Price_Reunion_14.jpgReunion Photos - Dave Price138 viewsRetirement ceremony - presenting the colors.
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