The Mighty Ninth

Strive To Reach The Summit


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JCook52.JPGTonight's EntreeThis lizard came into our AO and didn't live to tell about it.
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JCook-106.JPGA VisitorThis is a "throw-back". Too small for dinner.
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JCook53.JPGBreaking campAs per the cardboard mount, this photo indicates that B/2/9 is breaking camp with the 105mm ammo in "A-22" slings. This is the time when the FDC was located in a 3/4-ton truck.
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JCook54.jpgMore InfoThat's me loading the breech. Nash is the Gunner and PFC Larry L. Dodd is the Asst Gunner.
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JCook55.JPGSetting Up in a new LZI'm a member of the Advance Party, pulling the firing chart out of its canvas carrying bag as we begin life in yet another LZ.
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JCook56.JPGMACV Radio DishesNot the best photo, but it is supposed to the show the MACV radio dishes.
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JCook57.JPGAPCIn the background is an APC of the 135th. To the center right is a piss tube. You probably don't want to know what is in the cut-off barrels in the foreground.
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JCook58.JPGSpecial Forces - VillageThis photo documents the "early days" of Vietnam prior to open conflict. Here is a village protected by our US Special Forces. Their "advisor" mission was a prelude to the arrival of TO&E combat units.
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JCook59.JPGSpecial Forces - protecting villageSame photo - more detail upon enlarging.
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JCook60.JPGTea PlantationRice paddies and tea fields were everywhere.
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JCook61.JPGSchool GirlsTwo school girls walking into Pleiku.
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JCook62.JPGStack 'em upL to R: PFC Vincent Vigilotti, PFC Douglas C. Johnson stack up the empty tubes from the 105mm ammo as SFC Therman L. Lowery (Chief of Firing Battery) who replaced "First Shirt" 1stSgt Johnnie Winston, does the hard job of supervising.
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