Some of my photos From Vietnam 67-69

[waterfowlman]

Thought some of you guys might like to see these.
You can click on them to enlarge.

[Flightstopper]

That you 3rd pic far left? Great pics Rick!

[AKPirate]

Very cool photos Rick!

[triplecurl]

Good stuff!!!

[waterfowlman]

That you 3rd pic far left? Great pics Rick!

Yes flight....I've got a cigarette in my hand and an ammo bandolier across my chest.
Just realized you can click on them to enlarge photos.

[Bootlipkiller]

Very cool!

[Flightstopper]

That you 3rd pic far left? Great pics Rick!

Yes flight....I've got a cigarette in my hand and an ammo bandolier across my chest.
Just realized you can click on them to enlarge photos.

Those weren't the barracks, were they?

[DeadEye_Dan]

Always enjoy the pics

[waterfowlman]

That you 3rd pic far left? Great pics Rick!

Yes flight....I've got a cigarette in my hand and an ammo bandolier across my chest.
Just realized you can click on them to enlarge photos.

Those weren't the barracks, were they?

That was taken at LZ Schueller where we would "stand down" during the day and get some sleep. Yup....we slept in there.

[waterfowlman]

Here's a few more.

[AKPirate]

Is that a spoon in your pocket?

[Tiler_J]

Great pics, thanks for sharing and thank you for your service.

[waterfowlman]

Is that a spoon in your pocket?

Yes it is AK.....gotta eat sometime. Here's another of the SRAP (ambush) platoon I took at Camp Radcliffe in An Khe. "Holloway's Raiders".
The platoon sgt Holloway (seated on sandbags with soft drink in hand) was noted for his jungle fighting experience gained in the Ia Drang valley in 65. They were working in areas where I had already run recon before and I went with them for a while as their scout/FO.

[AKPirate]

Some hard looking men there, I wouldn't fuck with them

[Feelin' Fowl]

Great pics, thanks for sharing and thank you for your service.

This!

How did you get the pictures? Was it your camera?

[waterfowlman]

Some hard looking men there, I wouldn't fuck with them

Damn straight. By the time I took this picture, every one of them had blood on their hands. Pretty sure 100% of the platoon had purple hearts.

[Flightstopper]

Crazy shit, thanks for sharing the pics and stories. Couldn't even imagine.

[waterfowlman]

Great pics, thanks for sharing and thank you for your service.

This!

How did you get the pictures? Was it your camera?

I had been "in Country" for quite a while and realized that I had no pictures. Asked around and found out we could buy the kodak instamatic cameras whenever we got to a PX. Started buying them and tried to capture what I could. They also developed the photos for us there. The pictures of piles of dead bodies never got returned to us.

[The Duck Hammer]

Very cool pictures Rick. Thanks for your service.

[3legged_lab]

Some hard looking men there, I wouldn't fuck with them

Yup. Thanks for sharing Rick.

[AKPirate]

Some hard looking men there, I wouldn't fuck with them

Damn straight. By the time I took this picture, every one of them had blood on their hands. Pretty sure 100% of the platoon had purple hearts.

[waterfowlman]

Some hard looking men there, I wouldn't fuck with them

Damn straight. By the time I took this picture, every one of them had blood on their hands. Pretty sure 100% of the platoon had purple hearts.

The guy who built that website is a fucking asshole and bitter....Shelton Canter. Ignore most of his rants.
Here is The SRAP Platoons official website.

http://www.ichiban1.org/html/cs_srap.htm

I'm in the back row wearing neckkerchief with my head under the A

[AKPirate]

Some hard looking men there, I wouldn't fuck with them

Damn straight. By the time I took this picture, every one of them had blood on their hands. Pretty sure 100% of the platoon had purple hearts.

The guy who built that website is a fucking asshole and bitter....Shelton Canter. Ignore most of his rants.
Here is The SRAP Platoons official website.

http://www.ichiban1.org/html/cs_srap.htm

Thanks, I was wondering what the fuck was going on halfway down that site.

[AKPirate]

Rick- Can I post a link to your story?

[waterfowlman]

Rick- Can I post a link to your story?

I guess so....the one about the tiger?

[GadwallGetter530]

Thanks for posting. Awesome photos.

[AKPirate]

Rick- Can I post a link to your story?

I guess so....the one about the tiger?

Yeah, that would be wild.

http://www.ichiban1.org/html/stories/story_hambley.htm

[3legged_lab]

Rick- Can I post a link to your story?

I guess so....the one about the tiger?

I think I need to read this.

[The Duck Hammer]

Rick- Can I post a link to your story?

I guess so....the one about the tiger?

Yeah, that would be wild.

http://www.ichiban1.org/html/stories/story_hambley.htm

Damn that is crazy.

[waterfowlman]

This was one of our "home away from homes" in the Central Highlands. LZ Action was an artillery battery guarded by an infantry company.....it sat at the entrance to Mang Yang pass which was knicknamed "ambush alley". This place took mortar fire almost every night and had NVA sappers with bangalore torpedoes tangled up in the wire quite often. We would return in the mornings after all night ambushes outside the wire to sleep here during the day.