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PG-13.jpgThe Waldman Collection - Presenting Gifts119 viewsHost Jerry Orr presents a "challenge coin" to Ed Mahoney.

PG-22.jpgThe Waldman Collection - Presenting Gifts119 viewsHost Jerry Orr presents "challenge coins" to Lee Dixon. Lee served in the Bn Commo Section and had an "alter ego" as the Battalion "gopher", making several trips to Saigon to search out goodies.

JD-318.JPGLt Gary Dean Springer119 viewsSporting his cigar, Lt Springer in full stride. Lt Springer served as an FO and Battery Commander for "D" Battery in 1967.

SSG_Biggers.JPGSSG Kenneth "Bodie" Biggers119 viewsBodie Biggers a proud Texan and shake-n-bake E-6 as the honor graduate of the NCO school at Ft. Sill. Definite lifer tendencies, but a great guy who knew his stuff. He was FDC Section Chief and, I believe, later took over as Chief of Smoke when Chief went home. I think he received the Bronze w/V from the St. George fight. He brought back a pump pellet pistol from his R&R in Hawaii. The person sitting out a hand of Spades would use it to shoot at rats running across the CONEX "window".

FNG.JPGNew Arrival shoots rat - Photo inside the CONEX (FDC)119 viewsMike Medley, brand new FNG with one of the couple of lights on St. George (although the grunts kept trying to tie into our generator) and the ventilation "window" made out of an ammo box that could only be used during the day. While sitting out as the dummy during the ubiquitous Spades game that ran all night, I shot a huge rat running across the "window". It flopped out on to the charts throwing blood everywhere and then on to the back of the guy sitting with his back to the charts and from there on to the "card table" a/k/a computer desk. Never heard so much high-pitched hollering (not from the rat) until my daughter had her first pre-teen sleepover party at our house.

LZ_Tuffy_-_Carl___Denny.JPGLZ Tuffy - 1970119 viewsCarl (?), a new guy from Georgia, and Denny Mrowczynski, working the sandbagging detail.

LZ_Abbey4.JPGLZ Abbey - Getting Clean119 views(continued) There is a funny story about LZ Abbey and the only South Vietnamese army soldier (Montagnards weren't South Vietnamese, they were good people) I saw in the field during my entire tour.

The_Soul_Section.JPGSoul Section119 viewsThe soul gun section chilling out. No names on the slide holder. While I recognize all of them, I don't want to put on wrong names.