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TR18.jpgMud Wrestling131 viewsThat's what it looks like. It's what happens when you try to fill sandbags during the rainy season. More like "mudbags".
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Gen_Walker.jpgTroop Leader131 viewsThis is a photo of Brig Gen Walker (center), deputy commander of the 25th Inf Div, who led the 3rd Brigade on "Operation Blue Light" to the Central Highlands, the entry of "The Mighty Ninth" into Vietnam, December, 1965.
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2010-Pitts12.JPG"Now that's a hoot!"131 viewsGreg Malnar enjoying the show, getting a laugh out of Bert Landau's "Bert-ku" Award.
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File_6-4.JPGJungle Shelter131 views{UNKs} at the Palm Grove location.
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File_6-6.JPGJungle Subdivision?131 viewsWe stayed at the Palm Grove for a few days.
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Tex_1-4.JPGGuys in the bush131 viewsConference call.
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Tex_3-4.JPGGun Bunker131 viewsThe cannoneer's home away from home.
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Rick_E_6-3.JPG131 views
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JCook21.jpg"Base Camp" - Jan 1966131 viewsThis is our FDC location at Base Camp, Pleiku, 11Jan66. Sp4 Larry L. Black is half-turned to the camera, Sp4 James McBrayer, Jr is using the pick to make foxholes, Huckaby is by the "Pink Kitty". The "Pink Kitty" is the FDC training trailer that we brought over from Hawaii. We decided later that a plywood FDC trailer above ground was not a smart move. The picture is looking north, northwest.
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JCook40.JPGFeb 1966 High Angle Fire131 viewsHowitzer ready for high angle fire. Note the tents in the foreground.
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JCook22d.JPGUnderground Bunker - the orginal CONEX FDC concept131 viewsThe next change for our FDC operations was CONEX containers. We buried two (2) CONEX containers in Base Camp. They were dug in with the help of a bulldozer. They were facing each other, dropped into the hole and covered with sandbags. We made a "sandbag staircase" to get back to the surface. I don't know how this would work out in monsoon season. Inside the containers, we used red lights at night and white lights during the day. We moved in our standard field tables for the charts and placed the radios on ammo boxes.
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JCook89.JPGHere...write this down131 viewsSp4 James McBrayer, Jr is giving me the coordinates for Battery Center
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