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SG-18.JPGLZ Mile High225 viewsBird's eye view of LZ Mile High taken from the top of the FDC CONEX. Big mess tent in the background! Also, that really cool radar that allowed us to plot 8-place coordinate grids on the Cong & NVA.
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Modern-Day_Steve.JPGModern Day225 viewsModern-day Steve Gorecki. He wears a different kind of helmet these days.
Reminds us of the book: "We Were Young...and Soldiers". With emphasis, of course, on "were".
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WS-44.JPGRare Document224 viewsA well-preserved piece of memorabilia from 38 years ago.
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DP12a.JPGOff duty224 viewsOff duty in the tent. Others on my shift were Glen Bruney and Ronnie Crowe (both leaning against sandbags). Jim Castelletti (clerk) in the foreground.
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SM3.jpgWooden Soldier224 viewsOtis and me posing with a French Soldier. He didn't say much.
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2-9th_3.jpgBanquet - The Redlegs224 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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B_Btry_firing_LZ_Lane_.jpgFire Mission!224 viewsThe men of "B" Battery work the howitzer on LZ Lane, just a couple of clicks from the Cambodian border and the site of many battles in Nov, 1967.
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SG-16.JPGThe FDC Monolith224 viewsWe could not dig down, so we had to go up with the FDC CONEX. On the left is Loy & Beringer. The trees that were left were hard as steel. Had to live around them. This firebase was quite compact.
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TS-18.jpgLZ Ranger @ Ban-me-Thuot223 viewsMen-At-Work. Close coordination between cannoneers makes for a successful gun crew.
Water can says "Non Potable". Of course, that applied to most things in Vietnam.
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Slide41.jpgWatching the arc222 viewsA smoke round is fired close enough to see the smoke cannisters released and follow to the ground at LZ OD. (Look at center-right). Our cannoneers never got much chance to actually "see" where an artillery round landed, but LZ OD was an ideal location to show a complete path from firing the round until it completed its arc.
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Armed_CH-47.jpgChinook Demo222 viewsArmed CH-47
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CH-47_Water.jpgLZ OD222 viewsThe Chinook pilots did a magnificent job in setting down supplies. The tough part was "unhooking the doughnut".
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