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PG-15.jpgThe Waldman Collection - Presenting Gifts118 viewsHost Jerry Orr presents a "challenge coin" to Wayne Crochet.
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PG-22.jpgThe Waldman Collection - Presenting Gifts118 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.
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JD-5.JPG118 views
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SSG_Biggers.JPGSSG Kenneth "Bodie" Biggers118 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".
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LZ_Tuffy_-_Carl___Denny.JPGLZ Tuffy - 1970118 viewsCarl (?), a new guy from Georgia, and Denny Mrowczynski, working the sandbagging detail.
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LZ_Tuffy_-_Sikorksky_Crane_arrives.JPGLZ Tuffy - 1970118 viewsThe Sikorsky Skycrane unloads a huge log, almost as long as the LZ. Many hooches used it as a foundation.
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LZ_Tuffy_-_Jarisch_and_Medley.JPGLZ Tuffy - 1970118 viewsClean up time. (L to R: Eugene "George" Jarisch and Mike Medley). When those of us in the advance party (that didn't find the punji stakes) out of the 4 slicks that made it, we were stranded in the clouds without commo, in the mud inundated with 50 gallon drums of persistent CS. Each morning, a dink from the group on the overlooking ridgeline would come up the draw and let off a clip trying to get us to fire back to locate our 60s. It was only fitting that the three-holer (top left in photo) was placed in that shitty location. I was hesitant to use it since it was on the draw and left one's backside facing the dinks on the opposing ridgeline.
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LZ_Lois_-_Inside_FB.JPGLZ Lois - Internal View of the FB 118 viewsI don't have many pictures of LZ Lois since I went on R&R to Hawaii a couple of weeks after leaving LZ St George and didn't have film until then. Spent very little time there since I went on a hip shoot to LZ Marie and then they called us back and moved the Brigade over the mountains to LZ Radcliffe and then on to LZ Tuffy.
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LZ_Abbey4.JPGLZ Abbey - Getting Clean118 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.
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LZ_Tuffy_-_1970_HiAngle_Fire.JPG118 views
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The_Soul_Section.JPGSoul Section118 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.
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An_Khe_AO.JPGBan Me Thout118 viewsOn the ground in the AO.
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