The Mighty Ninth

Strive To Reach The Summit

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File_8-6.JPGTouching Down142 views
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File_9-4.JPGFirepower142 viewsThis is your M-60. Don't leave home without it.
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Tex_3-1.JPGThe Guys142 views
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Rick_E_3-2.JPG142 viewsRedlegs on their perch...sandbags, of course!
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JCook30.JPGBase Piece - May 1966142 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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JCook46.JPGFeb 1966142 views"B" Battery at Pleiku
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SG-1.JPGLeaving English behind142 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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Fort.JPGModern Day Danny142 viewsDanny attended our historic 2/9th Reunion at Ft Sill, OK in May-June 2013.
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mc-19.JPGCaptain Baird142 viewsCaptain Robert D. Baird, Hq Service Battery. His name is on the Mess Hall sign.
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mc-18.JPGJacobs & Charters142 viewsSp4 Dave "Jake" Jacobs and Sp4 Mark Charters at Camp Enari.
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mc-26.JPGMess Hall, Hqs Service Battery, Camp Enari142 viewsLtCol Charles Richards, Battalion Commander, 2/9th FA
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SG-23.JPGAirstrip at LZ Pony142 viewsDid I say that we were adjacent to a landing strip? Any closer and I would have lost my head.
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