Some of my photos From Vietnam 67-69
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 8:38 pmThought some of you guys might like to see these.
You can click on them to enlarge.
You can click on them to enlarge.
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Some of my photos From Vietnam 67-69
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Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 8:38 pmRe: Some of my photos From Vietnam 67-69
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 8:44 pmThat you 3rd pic far left? Great pics Rick!
Re: Some of my photos From Vietnam 67-69
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 8:45 pmVery cool photos Rick!
Re: Some of my photos From Vietnam 67-69
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 8:48 pmGood stuff!!! 
Re: Some of my photos From Vietnam 67-69
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 8:49 pmFlightstopper wrote: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.
Re: Some of my photos From Vietnam 67-69
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 9:10 pmVery cool!
Re: Some of my photos From Vietnam 67-69
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 9:12 pmwaterfowlman wrote:Flightstopper wrote: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?
Re: Some of my photos From Vietnam 67-69
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 9:15 pmAlways enjoy the pics
Re: Some of my photos From Vietnam 67-69
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 9:16 pmFlightstopper wrote:waterfowlman wrote:Flightstopper wrote: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.
Re: Some of my photos From Vietnam 67-69
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 9:49 pmHere's a few more.
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Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 9:55 pmIs that a spoon in your pocket?
Re: Some of my photos From Vietnam 67-69
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 10:10 pmGreat pics, thanks for sharing and thank you for your service.
Re: Some of my photos From Vietnam 67-69
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 10:23 pmAKPirate wrote: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.
Re: Some of my photos From Vietnam 67-69
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 10:27 pmSome hard looking men there, I wouldn't fuck with them 
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Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 10:29 pmTiler_J wrote:Great pics, thanks for sharing and thank you for your service.
This!
How did you get the pictures? Was it your camera?
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Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 10:30 pmAKPirate wrote: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.
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Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 10:33 pmCrazy shit, thanks for sharing the pics and stories. Couldn't even imagine.
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Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 10:36 pmFeelin' Fowl wrote:Tiler_J wrote: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.
Re: Some of my photos From Vietnam 67-69
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 10:36 pmVery cool pictures Rick. Thanks for your service.
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Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 10:37 pmAKPirate wrote:Some hard looking men there, I wouldn't fuck with them
Yup. Thanks for sharing Rick.
Re: Some of my photos From Vietnam 67-69
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 10:38 pmwaterfowlman wrote:AKPirate wrote: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.
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Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 10:46 pmAKPirate wrote:waterfowlman wrote:AKPirate wrote: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
Re: Some of my photos From Vietnam 67-69
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 10:47 pmwaterfowlman wrote:AKPirate wrote:waterfowlman wrote:AKPirate wrote: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.
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Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 10:57 pmRick- Can I post a link to your story?
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Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 11:00 pmAKPirate wrote:Rick- Can I post a link to your story?
I guess so....the one about the tiger?
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Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 11:02 pmThanks for posting. Awesome photos.
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Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 11:03 pmwaterfowlman wrote:AKPirate wrote: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
Re: Some of my photos From Vietnam 67-69
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 11:03 pmwaterfowlman wrote:AKPirate wrote:Rick- Can I post a link to your story?
I guess so....the one about the tiger?
I think I need to read this.
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Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 11:07 pmAKPirate wrote:waterfowlman wrote:AKPirate wrote: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.
Re: Some of my photos From Vietnam 67-69
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 11:53 pmThis 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.