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File_5-6.JPGPopping Smoke146 viewsThe smoke is purple...that's where you land.
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Tex_3-4.JPGGun Bunker146 viewsThe cannoneer's home away from home.
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Don_remodel.jpg146 viewsYeah....40 years later, Don stands about as tall, traded the weapon for a tool, and works on remodeling his kitchen instead of remodeling Dinks.
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Rick_E_3-3.JPG146 views
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JCook19.JPG"Base Camp" - Jan 1966146 views"Base Camp" - We arrived on Jan 1966 (by Starlifter - C-141 on dirt runway) and as you see we are the only one in the area ('B' Battery 2/9 Field Artillery). We only called it "Base Camp" and by February we we in the 'boonies' and never saw Base Camp again. In Jan and Feb of 1966 we ONLY had tents. When I came back in (to rotate out) Dec 1966 there were walkways and wooden barracks and Mess hall.
This hole is where we later put in two CONEXs and made our FDC bunker. Left to Right: Sp4 James McBrayer, Jr, PFC Richard A. Williams.
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JCook24.jpgPacking Up146 viewsCSMO - Close Station, March Order. Close the trails, stick the load on top and wait for the CH-47.
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JCook40.JPGFeb 1966 High Angle Fire146 viewsHowitzer ready for high angle fire. Note the tents in the foreground.
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Joe_and_the_Medic_4.JPGHanging Out146 viewsSgt Joe Cook, UNK, and our Battery Medic Sp4 Riddle.
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Joe_and_Medic_1.JPG146 viewsMore cooking lessons. Here, the Battery Medic (name is Riddle) watches how I cut a loaf of bread.
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JCook86.JPGThe MarketPlace in Pleiku146 viewsThat ain't fresh bread you smell, either!
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back_to_1-69a.JPGJanuary, 1969. Enroute to Oasis146 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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Bunker_on_Runway.JPGLZ Oasis: Guard Bunker w/ .50 cal machinegun overlooking runway146 viewsFebruary, 1969. In the background, you can see the insignia of the 1/69th, the 4th Inf Div, the 25th Inf Div and the 101st Abn. The sign says: "YOU ARE NOW ENTERING THE 1/69th". One night, I saw a tiger running down the runway.
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