The Mighty Ninth

Strive To Reach The Summit

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ShelterSign.jpg82 viewsThis is amazing: a carefully and painstakingly-lettered sign found near a cave entrance requesting that the shelter not be attacked. Well...you can always ask, can't you?
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GDS-Menu4.jpgChristmas, 1966 Menu82 viewsBack Cover: A Christmas Prayer
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DK-Gallantry3.jpg82 views
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JW-19.JPG#6 Gun Pit82 viewsThe #6 gun in "A" Battery with the FDC CONEX nearby, facing south. The BC scope sits atop the CONEX and was used by Lt Munden to view the great ammo dump fire from the month of July, 1967.
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Wald-16.JPGBig Smile82 viewsA big smile from PFC Vernon Sullivan.
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Wald-23.JPGVC Prisoners82 viewsLZ Tip, Feb 67.
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Wald-30.JPGWaiting on guns82 viewsRedlegs occupy LZ Tip, Jan 67, while waiting for the guns to arrive.
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Wald-49.JPGVung Tau: In-country R&R Center82 views"Stop" sign with a triangle. Foreign countries use different symbols.
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Wald-68.JPGPleiku82 viewsRoadside view of Pleiku, March 1967.
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JW-31.JPG82 views
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JM-16.JPGLt Mike Kurtgis82 viewsLt Mike Kurtgis, Air FO assigned to the 2/9th and boarding at LZ Oasis. Mike is happily sitting in his new "Loach" as his other "birds", older models, kept coming to earth in unexpected and unplanned fashion.
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DY-Nam2.jpgBack in Nam again82 viewsDanny Yates walking down a trail near the former LZ Uplift.
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