The Mighty Ninth

Strive To Reach The Summit

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File_6-3.JPGThe Palm Grove122 viewsSitting around the campfire.
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File_7-3.JPGHumping the bush122 viewsJust about everyone carried smoke grenades.
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Joe_and_the_Medic_4.JPGHanging Out122 viewsSgt Joe Cook, UNK, and our Battery Medic Sp4 Riddle.
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Joe_and_Medic_1.JPG122 viewsMore cooking lessons. Here, the Battery Medic (name is Riddle) watches how I cut a loaf of bread.
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JCook89.JPGHere...write this down122 viewsSp4 James McBrayer, Jr is giving me the coordinates for Battery Center
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JCook38.JPGFrom the "Pink Kitty" to Tent City for the FDC122 viewsWe bailed out of the "Pink Kitty" FDC. Obviously, it was not sustainable in our new jungle environment. This GP-small tent also served as the FDC sleeping quarters.
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DY-30.jpgThen and Now122 viewsHere is a comparison picture of downtown Pleiku. The Shell station in the old picture is now a Petrolimex station, as you can see in the second photo (see 30a).
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JM-22.JPGThe new TOC122 viewsUnder construction is the new TOC going up at LZ Oasis.
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back_to_1-69a.JPGJanuary, 1969. Enroute to Oasis122 viewsJanuary, 1969. If you take the road to the left, you are heading south to Ban Me Thout. If you go right, you are going to the Oasis.
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Lt_Huff.JPGJanuary, 1969. Lt Steven Riley Huffstutler, KIA122 viewsPictured in the middle of the photo without shirt is the FO, Lt. Huffstutler. He was killed in a helicopter crash on 18May69. Unknown LZ.
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DF-10.JPGReunion Photos - Danny "Cowboy" Fort122 viewsOur Host and guide during the Basic Training visit was LTC Marcus Jones. Reunion Organizer Maj Jerry Orr is to the right.
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DY-5.JPGReunion Photos - Danny Yates122 viewsWe visited a conference room in the training building. It is the "Orr Room". This conference room was dedicated in honor of Maj Jerry Orr who lives in Lawton and has been a close associate of the command and staff at Ft. Sill for many years. Jerry wishes to remind everyone that it is THE ORR ROOM and not THE ORR HOUSE!!
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