The Mighty Ninth

Strive To Reach The Summit

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Caribou.jpgLZ Montezuma213 viewsThe Army's Caribou on the tarmac
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Tents.jpgEncampment213 viewsYou know you're with the "grunts" when you call a tent "home". And when a helicopter lands, you get to chase everything all over the landscape.
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FO-Munden.JPGModern-day Dennis213 viewsFO Dennis Munden at an airport. Dennis ended his duties in Vietnam as an Air Observer.
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DK-PFC.jpg213 viewsYeah...I started out as a Private, but they demoted me to Lieutenant, Forward Observer, Field Artillery, and sent me to Nam.
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DFort8a.jpgA Chopper awaits213 viewsFO Lt Fuller and FDO Lt Carl Stout. There was both a Carl Stout and a Charles Stout serving with the 2/9th Arty.
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SM3.jpgWooden Soldier213 viewsOtis and me posing with a French Soldier. He didn't say much.
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2-9th_3.jpgBanquet - The Redlegs213 viewsL to R: Bert Landau, Gary Dean Springer, Don Keith,
Jim T. James, Ed Thomas, Dennis Dauphin, Tom Roman, Mike Kurtgis, Joe Turner. Missing from picture: Ernest Correia and Jim Connolly.
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Bert,_Dean,_Ed2.jpgHospitality Suite213 viewsWe can laugh now! FOs Bert Landau, Ed Thomas, and Gary Dean Springer enjoy the camaraderie long after the shooting ended.
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Rick_E_1-4.JPGNot unionized213 viewsThis may look like a break, but it isn't.
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Okie448.JPGYe Olde Redleg Inn213 viewsSgt Lee Okerstrom, left, with Lt Monty Lafitte with a "Stars & Bars" flag in the background. The sign reads "The Redleg Inn". LZ English.
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Chris_Herrick_-_Bill_Farmer.jpgLt Chris Herrick and Lt Bill Farmer213 viewsLt Herrick sitting on the passenger side and Lt Farmer in the driver's seat. Herrick served in the Bn S-3 shop and commanded the temporary "D" Battery. Bill Farmer was KIA on an FO assignment.
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Dart.jpgFleschette212 views8,000 little stingers inside a 105mm Anti-Personnel (BeeHive) round.
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