The Mighty Ninth

Strive To Reach The Summit

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Okie442.JPGOld drinking buddies199 viewsLt Monty Lafitte and John (UNK). Taken at Phu Cat in June, 1968.
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SG-11.JPGNothing grows on LZ Incoming?199 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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TS-14.JPGLZ Ranger @ Ban-me-Thuot198 viewsUNKNOWN cannoneer. Note the well-maintained area of the howitzer.
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MK9.jpgHoochmates198 views"Indigenous personnel" do the boot-shining.
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MK-62.jpgWounded NVA198 viewsCaptured NVA; left behind for us to find.
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OpnCtr2.jpgThe Operations Center198 viewsDesks? Tables? Chairs? What is all this stuff?
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Dixon15.jpgFellow Redlegs198 viewsAnother Polaroid photo. These two guys are friends from another battery....but their names are forgotten.
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Tom_Roman.jpgModern Day Tom198 viewsTom Roman enjoying the 2009 Banquet of the 35th Inf Regt "Cacti" reunion held in Reno, July, 2009.
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Slide21.jpgGathering around198 viewsGather round the guns, boys.
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Vinh_Thanh.jpgSights & Scenes197 viewsThe village of Vinh Thanh
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MK292.jpgAttack on The Oasis197 viewsPolicing up the explosives in the wire where the three NVA Sapper assassins were killed. This was a diversion away from the main Attack on the Northwest Perimeter corner of the “Oasis”.
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