The Mighty Ninth

Strive To Reach The Summit

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Pole_Repair-2.JPGAfter Mother's Day Attack109 viewsSteven Cox at the Oasis, on the pole after the Mother's Day attack at LZ Oasis. We are fixing the cable that was cut the night before. One of the men on the shown below me is the Commo Sgt. This photo was taken with a Polaroid I had to work on it to get it this good.
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RW-16.JPGPith helmet?109 viewsDowntown Pleiku: young girl wears a pith helmet instead of the more common conical hat (non la).
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RW-15.JPGDowntown Pleiku109 viewsThis place never made it as a tourist destination.
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RW-54.JPGBan Me Thout109 viewsIt is a nice bungalow to be out in the middle of nowhere. Polynesian-style roof on a house in Ban Me Thout. Probably didn't make the national register. I vaguely remember that it was a hut booby-trapped with a trip wire.
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RW-49a.JPGDestroying the caves109 viewsThat's me. I have my trusty rifle and machete in hand cutting through the elephant grass. Most likely cutting a path for other surveyors dragging a survey chain to get a measurement between two points.
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Selling_Tickets.JPG"You want HOW many???109 viewsTerry Savely mans the Registration Table offering raffle tickets for sale. The 50/50 drawing split this year was $1,100, a nice, tidy sum to the winner. And, the winner was Ms Linda Curtis, guest of 2/9th Redleg Mike Kurtgis. She donated the winnings back to the 35th in memory of Lt Roger Fulkerson, an FO from the 2/9th serving with the 35th in the field. Roger was the best friend of Mike Kurtgis. Fulkerson was KIA in a firefight.
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Serving_Line.JPGJoint Dinner - C-1-35 & 2/9th109 viewsTime to join the chow line.
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Joe_11.jpgAt the top109 viewsEnjoying the food and the view from the top of the revolving restaurant at the Doubletree Hilton.

Photo Courtesy of Joe Henderson
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GDB-23.JPGREAL Food!109 viewsCowboy Danny Fort has written under the picture, "Would you believe? It's REAL food!"
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FP-4.jpgThursday Firepower Demonstration109 viewsPhoto courtesy of Doug Turner
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FP-7.jpgThursday Firepower Demonstration109 views
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Firing_Range_2.jpgThe M-4 Rifle109 viewsGetting the feel of the new M-4.
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