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DY-32e.JPGThen & Now: the search for Base Camp90 viewsOur guide pointed out this road leading into our base camp area. Something about that looked awfully familiar. I've attached the picture along with a Google Earth screen print, marked with an "x" to show where the picture was taken. So close, and yet so far.

According to my letters home, base camp moved to an area south of Pleiku, probably Enari, in May of 1967.

DY-Nam.jpgBack in Nam again90 viewsDanny is walking along the road in the former LZ Uplift area and is picking up a piece of a sandbag in the roadway.

Huseth-9.JPG25th Div Yearbook - Oct 1, 1941 to Oct 1, 196690 viewsA short history of the 2/9th FA arriving in Nam. The writeup includes some of the other supporting units arriving with the 3rd Brigade.

Yates.JPGModern Day Danny90 viewsModern-Day Danny attending our historic 2/9th Reunion at Ft Sill, OK in May-June 2013.

PG-19.jpgThe Waldman Collection - Presenting Gifts90 viewsHost Jerry Orr presents "challenge coins" to those attending this historic reunion.

PG-18.jpgThe Waldman Collection - Presenting Gifts90 viewsHost Jerry Orr presents a "challenge coin" to Dave Scott.

LZ_Marie.JPGLZ Marie90 viewsOn the ground, now...securing LZ Marie. After the guns got in, we got up a strand of concertina wire. I don't remember how long we were there, but one evening as the LPs were going out, the new grunt Platoon Leader had the rest of the platoon guarding the LZ in the middle with their weapons field stripped. Rookie mistake. The AKs started popping and the LPs came running back in under fire, followed by mortars (just 60 mikes) right behind them. One of the howitzers went to final protective fire (firecracker, crank it all the way up and down a couple of turns, charge 1 and .2 seconds I think it was). I think the other tube was loading beehive. Our eltee was in his hole down from me and I had the radios. Got in touch with the Battery at LZ Lois but there was a problem with the GT line. So we shot the firecracker. Nothing like the sound of 9 bomblets coming down on an incoming breeze to pucker one up. Only a couple of them landed in inside the perimeter. The only casualty - and this might be just wishful thinking garnered over the years, so I'd like confirmation from others - was the grunt eltee who got shrapnel in his rear.

LZ_Abbey2.JPGLZ Abbey - the South China Sea90 views(continued) For the first time in Nam, I had the South China Sea on my map. We set up in a graveyard on top of a hill surrounded as a horseshoe by water.

The_Soul_Section.JPGSoul Section90 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.