The Mighty Ninth

Strive To Reach The Summit

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File_5-4.JPGThe Palm Grove140 viewsLoading up for another Combat Assault.
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File_7-3.JPGHumping the bush140 viewsJust about everyone carried smoke grenades.
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JCook25.jpgDonut Dolly?140 viewsWell...not quite. But somebody had to hook the "donut" to the Chinook.
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JCook86.JPGThe MarketPlace in Pleiku140 viewsThat ain't fresh bread you smell, either!
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JO-7.JPGReunion Photos - Jerry Orr140 viewsTaking the barracks tour....
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JO-9.JPGReunion Photos - Jerry Orr140 viewsDon't laugh...we looked tough 40 years ago, too!

L to R: Dennis Dauphin, Jim Connolly, Ernie Kingcade, John "Moon" Mullins
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mc-16.JPGHqs Service Battery, Mess Hall at Camp Enari140 viewsSFC Willard Newell was the Mess Sergeant for "A" Battery.
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CONUS_Orders.JPGGoing Home - CONUS Orders140 viewsSpecial Orders #245 were special indeed! Switch the numbers around and you have my Northwest Airlines flight #254. The arrival at Oakland Army Air Terminal was bullshit, though. Due to our wonderful "hippie" anti-war friends, they were shooting .22 cal rifles through the chain-link fence at the Oakland Terminal and we were diverted to McChord AFB. There we were treated to "midnight physicals". Ya think anyone refused to sign a medical release then? The next photo shows our "going home" barracks...even got a Floor & Bunk assignment. The jungle never looked like this!!
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JFO-7.JPGFire!140 viewsA military cot blocks the view of whatever is being fired, but this photo proves conclusively...without any doubt...that our combat brothers DID NOT use ear plugs? Eh? What's that? I'm entitled to VA hearing disability? Ya think?
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