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Tex_6-1.JPGOut of uniform?236 viewsYou won't find this method of showering in Ft Sill's FM 6-40. Hanging a water can to the end of the howitzer tube is strictly an improvisation. They would have to add another Chapter.
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TS-7.JPGLZ Ranger @ Ban-me-Thuot235 viewsMud puddles everywhere.
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TS-14.JPGLZ Ranger @ Ban-me-Thuot235 viewsUNKNOWN cannoneer. Note the well-maintained area of the howitzer.
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L-19.jpgLZ Montezuma235 viewsAn L-19 light observation craft used by Forward Air Controllers (FAC) to coordinate air strikes by confirming ground target locations.
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DP8a.JPGR-Sopping again235 viewsSpring, 1968. Moving again, from LZ Baldy to the south of LZ English, by convoy. Time here had been hectic. Not only were we shelled frequently during the TET offensive, but so were the field units. We frequently fired illumination rds all night. Viet Army compound at Hoi An was overrun by the NVA, but was saved by our all-night pinpoint shelling.
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JW-1.JPGThe Saturday Night Banquet235 viewsPhotos courtesy of John Waldman.
Artillery to the rescue! Here the men of the 2/9th Arty attending the reunion: Jerry Orr, John Waldman, Lee Okerstrom, John "Moon" Mullins, Greg Malnar, Mike Kurtgis, Dennis Munden, Ed Thomas, Bert Landau, Gary Dean Springer, Ernie Correia, Edwin Moor. Missing from picture: Jim Connolly, Jim T. James, and Dennis Dauphin.
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SG-11.JPGNothing grows on LZ Incoming?235 viewsThis is a "gook's view" of LZ Incoming from the south. I braved the snipers & mortars to get water from the big bladder that was sitting out about 200ft out of the perimeter. Anyone wonder why there was NOT a stick of vegetation on this firebase? "Orange"-something ring a bell?
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DY_2012.jpgBeen a lonnnnng time!235 viewsFt Sill, 1966 to Vietnam, 2012.
Danny returns to Vietnam in 2012; he is standing at the site of the former LZ Montezuma (renamed "Bronco" later).
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Duc_Pho_2012.jpgHill at Duc Pho235 viewsThis is the aerial picture from 1967, with an X marking the approximate spot where
the photo was taken, and the approximate location of my tent at the time.
That entire area from the X going north is a neighborhood now.
{A 2nd click of your mouse will enlarge the photo and provide a great view!}
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TS-4.JPGLZ Ranger @ Ban-me-Thuot234 viewsExtensive use of sandbagged bunkers at battery's howitzer sections.
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MK9.jpgHoochmates234 views"Indigenous personnel" do the boot-shining.
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MK-64.jpgDoc & POW234 viewsDoc watching over NVA prisoner.
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