The Mighty Ninth

Strive To Reach The Summit

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UnknownSoldier.jpgMen of B-1-35128 views
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Firefight2.jpg128 viewsFirefight in progress. The use of smoke grenades was critical in Vietnam. It marked your position as well as marking where you wanted air support. The 105mm artillery used smoke rounds to mark where the HE was going to fall after adjusting.
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Keith-Shaffer.jpg128 viewsLt Don Keith and Lt Randy Shaffer. Lt Shaffer was KIA.

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TR25.jpgRead all about it!128 viewsOne heckuva of an accidental discovery. It took four helo loads to bring the arms to LZ Valentine. Interesting to note that Sp4 John D. Grinde and 1SG JF Tibbit are active members of the 35th Inf Regt Assn and attended the annual reunion in Reno, 2009.
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EMoor5.jpgLineman at work128 viewsDuc Pho, Pleiku area, 66-67
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2010-Pitts14.JPGThe "Bert-Ku" Award128 viewsEd Thomas rattles off Bert Landau's many achievements while Dave Collins presents the "Bert-Ku" award (which attaches to the rear 40).
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2010-Pitts16.JPGThe Main Event: 35th's Saturday Night Banquet128 viewsAll redleges wearing their Arty Shirts: Gary Dean Springer, Ed Thomas, and Dennis Munden.
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2010-Pitts20.JPGThe Recon Man128 viewsNo one is prouder of the 35th Inf Regt Recon Team than Wiley Dodd. Wiley serves as the Assn's Sergeant-at-Arms. Willie Smith is seated at right.
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File_6-1.JPGA Soldier's Gear128 viewsSp4 Rick Ericksen lays it all out. You bring only what you can carry.
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Tex_3-4.JPGGun Bunker128 viewsThe cannoneer's home away from home.
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