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MK-72.jpgWeapons Maintenance139 viewsAlways taking time out to clean your gear. You need it...you take care of it...it takes care of you.
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TR10.jpgThe Warning Order139 viewsThese "I'm Coming Home" warning letters were very popular for all the "short timers".
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Falcons_A_Co_82nd_Avn_Bn.jpg139 viewsAll the guys in 2nd row were from DivArty units except for the last 2 guys.L-R Emory Saylor (B Btry 2/9), Harold Woody (Hq&Svc Btry 2/9). This is just the armed plat photo, the others Sgt Robert Gibson B Btry, Sgt Elbert Bacon A Btry were on the slicks and I don't have a photo of that platoon. Photo taken while we were TDY on Shotgun 10. Date 28 May 65 at Vung Tau, RVN. The unit we were attached to was A/82 Avn Bn.
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DK-New_Vietnam.JPG139 viewsHA! I liked Vietnam so much that I created my own personal jungle here at home.
Actually, this is Don's backyard that he and wife Barb created over a period of several years and has won several awards from his home city of Bartlett, TN.
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2010-Pitts8.JPG"Thank You Very Much"139 viewsDave Collins serves as Emcee thanking hosts Roy & Linda Hoffman. Tom Roman and Byron Kurtgis, brother of FO Mike Kurtgis look on.
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File_2-5.JPGGroup conference139 viewsLooks like he got the long stick instead of the "short straw". Another day in the bush with members of the 1/14th Inf Regt.
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File_5-1.JPGYa got me again139 viewsA Gillette commercial? Yeah...me trying to shave.
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File_7-2.JPGHumping Heavy139 viewsMy rucksack came in around 60 pounds along with an extra battery and 10 quarts of water. Plus...I packed 21 mags just in case we ran into heavy sh**. I ran out once and never again. Always "humped heavy" after that. I was carrying close to 80 pounds altogether.
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JCook49.JPGOur Arrival139 viewsA bulldozer leads the way straight through the jungle.
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LD-2.JPGMe & My Guitar - Duc Pho, Montezuma139 viewsSeeing Sgt Butler's photo with his guitar struck memories. Strange thing the photo triggered was that the orange plastic finger twists on the end of the guitar tuners always twisted loose after just a few tunings. Whoever/whatever made those tuner heads must have been in Viet Nam because they were the worst I had EVER seen... and I had seen a LOT of guitars by the time I got there! Anyway, I bought a guitar in Saigon with orange plastic finger twists and cutaway, exactly like the one in the photo. I gave it to one of the guys in the battery and on my next Saigon trip I bought (for just about $2 or $3 more–in "P" of course) another guitar with Japanese tuners on it (they had white plastic tips that never broke). I also left this guitar at the unit when I returned back to "the world." I just wonder if the guitar in the photos was the one I had!
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JS-9.JPGLZ St George139 viewsMortar Pit at LZ St George.
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cowboy.jpgStill a Cowboy139 viewsDanny Fort, even some 46 years later, proves he's still a cowboy living in Headrick, Oklahoma and serves as the Town Mayor.
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