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TamKy-Goodbye.jpgThe Final DaysRushing around to take pictures of "my guys" before catching a chopper and meeting my "Freedom Bird" home. Some of the last photos of cannoneers of A/2/9 taken before going home.
Here I bid farewell to PFC Doug Wigginton, Sp4 Ed Selent, and Sp4 Ron Hammond. Late October, 1967.
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TamKyClouds2.jpgThe Final DaysWorking above the clouds...hard to believe.
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Casp1.jpgThe Final DaysCapt Mike Casp, Battery Commander, just after monsoon lifted.
It was extremely regrettable that Capt Casp, filling in for a LNO who was on R&R, was in a C&C chopper shot down while on a Recon Mission. He was a wonderful Battery Commander!
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TamKyClouds3.jpgThe Final DaysMy last RSOP...way up in the clouds.
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posn2.JPGThe Final DaysA new LZ means a LOT of work...getting set up, digging in...making the site fully operational.
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TamKy5.jpgThe Final DaysSetting up shop way up in the mountains.
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Malnar2.jpgThe Final DaysPFC Greg Malnar tends to some sore feet atop LZ Mile High at Tam Ky. Greg was in the FDC and later served as an RTO with Lt Bert Landau.
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Mile_High.jpgThe Final DaysUnk Cannoneer uses a truck mirror to shave high up in the mountains of Tam Ky. At far left, another cannoneer holds the boresight target. On the ground, note the pickaxe and shovel. Tam Ky was my last "duty station" in Vietnam.
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Spencer___Casp.JPGLt Malcolm Spencer and Capt Mike CaspSince I was heading home on my DEROS, Lt Malcolm Spencer was called out of the field, where he had been pulling FO duty, to replace me as the XO of "A" Battery. Behind him is the Battery Commander, Captain Mike Casp, who was killed two weeks after this photo was taken. He was on a reconnaissance mission when the chopper was shot down.
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CONUS_Orders.JPGGoing Home - CONUS OrdersSpecial Orders #245 were special indeed! Switch the numbers around and you have my Northwest Airlines flight #254. The arrival at Oakland Army Air Terminal was bullshit, though. Due to our wonderful "hippie" anti-war friends, they were shooting .22 cal rifles through the chain-link fence at the Oakland Terminal and we were diverted to McChord AFB. There we were treated to "midnight physicals". Ya think anyone refused to sign a medical release then? The next photo shows our "going home" barracks...even got a Floor & Bunk assignment. The jungle never looked like this!!
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CRB-Barracks.jpgHow the other half lives....Holding barracks at Cam Ranh Bay for departing personnel. Compared to the field, these accomodations were utter luxury.
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CRB-6th.jpg6th Convalescent HospitalBest place in Nam that I visited, but had no desire to stay there.
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