The Mighty Ninth

Strive To Reach The Summit

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GDS-68.JPGOffsides86 viewsThe cannoneer standing between the trails shouldn't be positioned there...for good reason.
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GDS-123.JPGChow Time86 views"Well, we call it that because it looks like that!"
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GDS-130.JPGLZ 510B86 viewsLt Gary Dean Springer and Capt Higgins "share the table" for a good Thanksgiving day meal.
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GDS-110a.JPGBattery position86 viewsNote the use of bamboo poles to support the sandbag roof. You had to use whatever you could find in the jungle.
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GDS-242x.JPGSniper Hill86 viewsAn artillery prep and some A1E Skyraiders strike on a hill assigned to B/1/14 to climb and do a S&D mission for VC or NVA. Hill got its name from the continued sniper fire anytime we got close to it.
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DK-Pers7.jpgMen of B-1-3586 views
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DK-Viet8.jpg86 views
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Firebase9.jpg86 viewsA large series of rice paddies provided a western border to the LZ.
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Wald-26.JPGTent Mates86 viewsCpl John Kuntz, back; PFC James G. Hourigan, front.
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M-16.jpgVietnam: 2012 visit86 viewsM-16: My wife squeezes off a few rounds from an M-16. Note Vietnamese observer.
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