The Mighty Ninth

Strive To Reach The Summit

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FO-Ready.jpg149 viewsFO Lt Don Keith in full battle gear. Note the two (2) smoke grenades on the webgear.
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MTL-8.jpgMy hotel room149 viewsWere you expecting a 5-star hotel? Not hardly. Unknown friend. He was just a little taller than I was.
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JCook8.jpgPuff, the Magic Dragon149 viewsNight firing exercise by Puff.
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Dixon68.jpgAdoption149 viewsRemember the photo where I mentioned that I adopted a boy and a girl from the local orphanage? {See Photo Dixon #16} You saw the boy in that shot. Here is me and the little girl when she came to visit at Duc Pho. Photos are even fading now. I think this was Christmas of 1967...
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Dixon71.jpgHere come the tanks149 viewsThese were some of the tanks that armor guys operated out of LZ Montezuma. I remember them, the ordnance and the engineering boys clearing a road for us to convoy once.
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EMoor9.jpgPartly Cloudy149 viewsDuc Pho, Pleiku area, 66-67
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EMoor7.jpgTented Mess Hall149 viewsDuc Pho, Pleiku area, 66-67. Mess tent. Sure beats eating C-rats every day.
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JCook13.jpgThe 105mm bullet149 viewsA piece of 105mm shrapnel taken from a VC.
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Roeder_Pavilion6.JPGThe Winner149 viewsWinner of the 50/50 drawing, Linda Curtis (center) chats with Martha Henderson (left). Linda donated the winnings back to the 35th in memory of KIA Lt Roger Fulkerson. At right is Association Past President Jim Beddingfield and his wife.
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GDB-24.JPGThe strange sight in Vietnam149 viewsA war was going on while the simple civilian farmers went about their business. Obviously, they didn't care much for warfare.
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