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Slide71.jpgBig Truck223 viewsThe locals manage to domesticate the water buffalo and the elephants for their work purposes. Also, the enemy used them as truck-haulers.
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JCook3.jpgFDC tries out the guns223 viewsThat's me holding the 105mm round for loading into the breech. The gun-bunnies said I was "too slow" and suggested I return to the FDC. We were celebrating the 50,000th round...note the sign in the background against the sandbags.
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SG-7.JPGRelocation at LZ Incoming223 viewsGetting settled at LZ Incoming. Lt George is in the center.
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Jungle_Expert_Cert.JPGThe Most Valuable Certificate Ever!223 viewsMany students were "dropouts". Several of the exercises were beyond those officers and NCOs who didn't have sufficient physical fitness. Some were petrified by having to rappel down a vertical cliff. The "practice" run was a mud cliff; the "graded for score" rappelling was done down a rock waterfall. Those very devious buzzards didn't tell us that. Crossing the raging Chagres River with two poncho halfs making a raft was very daunting for the non-swimmers. I was lucky to be paired with a strong swimmer. The 24-hr E&E was not for the faint-hearted, plus they threw us into a raging storm. The maps literally washed out of our hands from the driving rain as a monsoon started. Such fun.
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Dixon25.jpgPFC Charles Lovelady222 views(Duc Pho) Here is Charles Lovelady of Detroit in his mess cap. This is the FRONT side of the mess tent where smoking was allowed! Cpl. Money wisely didn't allow smoking on the rear side since we had so many gas/kerosene cans stored back there to fuel the stoves! That little hexagonal tent on a kit base behind Lovelady (to the left) served as our barber shop and the fellow who ran it was named Craig Lash. You had to make appointments to get your hair cut and there was always someone in there. Lash was from San Francisco.
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File_9-6.JPGField of Fire222 viewsI'm all set here, but my real job is in the FO party with Lt Hannigan.
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Okie450.JPGSmile!222 viewsLee Okerstrom and Art ____. Taken near Hill 369.
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TamKyClouds4.jpgThe Final Days221 viewsStrange view from a firebase. We definitely took the "high ground".
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WS-181.JPGThe End221 viewsHistoric Moment: The 2/9th Arty returns to Hawaii; all personnel are re-assigned.
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DFort2a.jpgAnd I do this because?221 viewsOh, yeah...because it is the best protection there is! Sp5 Danny Fort fills yet another sandbag.
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DP9a.JPGBn CO LTC Jerry Bobzien, 2/9th221 viewsSpring, 1968. LZ English was just outside Bong Son, to the south of Duc Pho where we had been months before. We stayed here only about a month. The base, fortunately, had been occupied, so it was already built for us. Our FDC bunker is behind the sign.
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Tom_Roman.jpgModern Day Tom221 viewsTom Roman enjoying the 2009 Banquet of the 35th Inf Regt "Cacti" reunion held in Reno, July, 2009.
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