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MK278.jpgGetting "short"Another "short timer": Lt John Cashin, "45 days and a wake-up". Your "wake-up" call was the day you left.
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MK279.jpgGetting "short"This is my "Getting Short" photo. When you can't "see over your boot-tops", then you are "short".
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MK-280.jpgAttack on The OasisThe day you always know may be coming...and here it is....
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WS-4.JPGAttack on The OasisBorrowed from Walt Schneidereit's photo album, this is a 4th ID account of the attack on The Oasis. According to Maj Jerry Orr, many more of the enemy were killed that night as many large mass graves were found. An estimate was 70 more dead.
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MK281.jpgIndigenous Spy“Sam” here, has other plans. After the attack on the “Oasis” we never saw “Sam” again. He worked in the Battalion area sweeping and general cleanup, part of an indigenous work program. Many units learned...the hard way...that the VC infiltrated their indigenous work forces.
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MK282.jpgHoochMy hooch next to the Battalion TOC.
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MK283.jpgHoochMy bunk inside the hooch at Oasis.
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MK284.jpgPerimeter of OasisThe Infantry perimeter area: 3rd Brigade at the “Oasis” FSB
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MK285.jpgThe perimeter area 2/9th Battalion Artillery East side of the “Oasis”. My Hooch located at the end of the red line.
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MK286.jpgFSB OasisPoints of interest: The wire, the EM tents, the TOC.
We didn't have many visitors, except for the VC and NVA.
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MK287.jpgPassing throughA B-40 rocket punctures a hole in the EM tent.
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MK288.jpgPassing throughBattalion clerk was a CO (Conscientious Objector) who had the flag over his bunk…nice kid; did my Code book cover. But this incident told him what “Charlie” thinks of his “Peace Flag”. The B-40 went through flag and passed out of the Tent.
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