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Ed Griffith was the Artillery FO (forward observer) for D Company 1 / 8 for
most of the same time I was there. I am sure we worked together as the photo he
sent me is of a lot of the same group I worked with when I was in the main CP.
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This is a picture of the Radio operators before I worked my
way up to it. From left is Ed, Mike Eklund "Lefty",
"Bambi", Don, Rico Rodriquez (Rico was from Puerto
Rico), "Beetle" Bailey and finally "Sue". I
would assume the photo was taken about December 69 or January 70. |
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This is a photo of Lt. Ed Griffith (seated on hood of Jeep). and SFC
Mills. Photo was taken while on "Green Line" duty at Quan Loi. |
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This was taken on LZ Kathleen in January of 1970. From left to right
is 1st Sergeant Peacock, 2nd Lt Wiggins (our XO)
and Cpt Perkins (our CO). These were our
leaders for the time I was in Vietnam. |
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Ed's comments:
FSB Kathleen was started Christmas Day 69 and abandoned late Jan
70, it was the nicest FSB I served on! I remember well the going back to
Kathleen to police up and blow the damaged ammo that was left behind.
What an explosion, we should have cleared it with air traffic control.
(You can read about tearing Kathleen down in the January
section of "my story".)
Click here to go to a map of the
location of LZ Kathleen. |
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This was Home Sweet Home to all in D company 1st Bn 8th Cav for most
of the time in country. A poncho to cover the ground and keep the army
ants from eating the air mattress. Then the air mattress (most of them
had some holes that were fixed by putting the tape off the bottom of
smoke grenades over the holes.) and finally a poncho liner as a
blanket. |
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I can only recognize two people in this picture. The
"commanding" figure in the middle facing the camera is
none other that Captain Perkins the company commander. He is giving a briefing
to a couple of new guys. The other person I recognize it SFC Mills. He
has the tattoo on his arm. |
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This is the snake that Bill Belcher shot (see
story). The guys holding the snake are Left, Rudy (he carried the
big "292" antenna for the radios) and "Beetle"
Bailey. |
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