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Pleiku_Montagnard.JPGPleiku series92 viewsPleiku Montagnard: Carrying his wares to sell at the market.

{Montagnards were indigenous to the mountainous areas of Vietnam; they were a very friendly people and somehow managed to stay out of the entanglements with the VC and NVA. The Vietnamese people weren't so lucky.}

Steven_C__Brown.jpgEverybody's Friend - 2/9th Mail Clerk92 viewsSteven is the one that drove me out to the Oasis and told me he was going back to the states, and we had the same MOS. I got his job. Photo furnished by Paul Howe.

JFO-74.JPGHappiness is a warm puppy92 viewsThis one escaped a Vietnamese cooking pot. Note that the soldier wears no insignia or rank.

Beddingfield_-_Arnold.JPGJoint Dinner - C-1-35 & 2/9th92 viewsPast Presidents Jim Beddingfield and Dick Arnold of the 35th Inf Regt were invited guests of the joint dinner at Ft Myer.

Jim_Joe_Mike.jpgBanquet Social Hour92 viewsMike Kurtgis, Joe Henderson, Jim Connolly - regular Redlegs at the evening banquet.

Photo courtesy of Joe Henderson

DTurner-21.jpgCannoneers at work92 views

Fr__Devine.JPGFOUND 50 YEARS LATER! Another First Timer92 viewsIn addition to FO Doug Turner and Donut Dolly Jenny Young, we had the honor of reuniting with the Chaplain for the 3rd Brigade, Catholic Chaplain Fr. Devine. He was located through the efforts of 35th Regt Assn Past President Peter Birrow and was able to attend the Reunion. He poses here with Joe Henderson.

Photo courtesy of Joe Henderson

Walt_Goes_Home.JPGThe outprocess "process"92 viewsThe Big Day arrives; I'm finally at Cam Ranh Bay. Hard to believe it was 8,476 miles to Los Angeles. Don't remember too much from my days here. I do remember them checking baggage. They put a rod down a Baby powder container checking to see if it would go all the way down. Told us that if we had pictures with bodies (war deceased) they would be taken away. So I just threw mine away, had a bunch of the attack Mother's Day at the Oasis 1969. I can still remember on shot of a VC burned in the cockroach position. Remember how quiet the airplane was when we took off and once we were miles over the water, everyone breaking out cheering. I do remember some of my time at FT Lewis and waiting at the airport for flight home.

GDB-4.jpgThe "Killer"92 viewsDon't know about "secret", but the Ho Chi Minh trail was the "killer" because it was the main pipeline for food, weapons and re-supply for our enemies. It was never successfully shutdown; this vital trail, in supposedly "neutral" countries, seriously hampered our efforts to end the war.