The Mighty Ninth

Strive To Reach The Summit

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DY-3.JPGReunion Photos - Danny Yates124 viewsFirst Stop: visiting the Basic Training area.
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Summerall_Hall.JPGCannons Taught here124 viewsBack in the day, the training NCOs would be climbing all over the 155mm and 8" howitzers teaching you the components at Summerall Hall.
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JO-6.JPGReunion Photos - Jerry Orr124 viewsJohn Waldman leans on a locker while we get the scoop on basic training.
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JO-3.JPGReunion Photos - Jerry Orr124 viewsTouring the training barracks. Ed Mahoney lets the old bunk beds bring back a smile of remembrance.
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JO-8.JPGReunion Photos - Jerry Orr124 views"Do any of you ladies want to go camping with us?"

The answer was obviously "no".
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JO-25.JPGReunion Photos - Jerry Orr124 viewsSo much for the tour. Let's eat.
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mc-16.JPGHqs Service Battery, Mess Hall at Camp Enari124 viewsSFC Willard Newell was the Mess Sergeant for "A" Battery.
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Don_Hardy.JPGWelcome to Nam124 viewsSgt Don Hardy, "B" Battery. I'm riding in a convoy.
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WC-3.JPGWash first; then dry124 viewsNow that Lt Crochet has washed his boots in the stream, it's time to let them dry.

Photo courtesy of Cliff "Westy" Westwood, B/2/35.
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Shields76.jpgCrew in action124 viewsNow THAT'S what we call "getting into the action"!

L to R: SP4 Rick Satterfield, PFC Tony Heredia, PFC Mike Steele. Steele does the 105 tango.
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DY-10.jpgBig Bullets123 viewsThis 105mm howitzer ammo has been unloaded from its storage tubes, fuzed and connected to the powder cannister.
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DY-22.jpgSignposts at Pleiku123 viewsEvery location in Nam had reminders of home in the form of mileage markers.
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