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JCook12.jpgTriple-Dipple148 viewsHere is a CH-47 lifting a water buffalo and three (not two) brass casing Packs. We had a miscommunication -- and the pilot thought he had two casing Packs. So he dragged the bottom pack through our Battery and we lucky no damage to us or to him.
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JCook30.JPGBase Piece - May 1966148 viewsJoe notes to family back home: "These guys are members of the Base Piece Section; we do most of the firing. On all adjustment missions, we fire the BP. It is set over Battery Center. 10,000 rounds shot in Vietnam. This round (foreground) was shot at a suspected VC campsite. The whole battery fired it".
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JCook-122.JPGBase Camp at a distance148 viewsLooking at Base Camp on a knoll with cattle shade sheds to the right.
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Aiming_Cir-1.JPGHoneycutt Road148 viewsIn the background, Bldg 5676, Allin Hall, formerly the BOQ, opened in October, 1965. The "twin tower", Bldg 5678, Aultman Hall, was opened shortly after. Both BOQs are now "hotels".
Remember Honeycutt Road? That's where you learned how to "lay the battery" with an M2 Aiming Circle. This area will become a parking lot for a new elementary school to replace the very old Geronimo school. I guess that's just "SADULU" for the old training site on the prominent ridge line of Honeycutt Road.
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DF-6.JPGReunion Photos - Danny "Cowboy" Fort148 viewsRob Smitha takes a photo outside the training building on our first day at Sill.
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DF-1.JPGReunion Photos - Dnny "Cowboy" Fort148 viewsVeteran Bill Kull and wife Linda attending the 2/9th Reunion at Ft Sill.
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Fort.JPGModern Day Danny148 viewsDanny attended our historic 2/9th Reunion at Ft Sill, OK in May-June 2013.
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mc-20.JPGFirst Shirt148 views1SG James E. McPeek, "A" Battery
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mc-23.JPGSgt & Captain148 viewsLeft: MSG Paul J. Heavner; Right: Captain Stu Royle.
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Steve_Cox_-_Jessie_White.jpgOl' Buds Reunited148 viewsJessie White lives in Carthage Tenn. Jessie arrived at the 2/9th in Oct.1969 in the HQ Service Battery as a Field Wireman. He ended up with the 4/42d, as an RTO in an FO Party and sent to the field with the infantry. While serving with the infantry, Jessie got good at putting 105mm rounds in the back pocket of the VC. Later, the 4/42d Lt. Col. commander found out that Jessie was just a E3. He made Jessie an E5 right there in the field.
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LZ_Liz_Doc#1_Fitzpatrick.jpgPipe & Pinups148 viewsTypical interior view of the CONEX. Pictured here are Doc and Fitzpatrick.
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JFO-18.JPGChecking the newspaper148 viewsJust like home...eat a meal, read the paper.
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