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Artillery Hill, 1970 |
Dave @ 62d Maint Bn HQ |
Log Center |
Dave @ Log Center |
Riding C-7 Caribou on downwind leg (gear down) to Pleiku AFB, Tropo Hill in foreground, Camp Schmidt in background |
Camp Schmidt - foreground, Lake Bien Ho background |
Engineer Hill foreground, Lake Bien Ho, background |
Missed landing approach @ Qui Nhon, Chinook (center of photo) got in our way! |
Lake Bien Ho |
Qui Nhon AFB, C-7, C-133, C-123 |
Qui Nhon AFB, C-7, L-01, C-133, C-123, Beech |
May 25, 1970, my ride to Plei Djereng with Col Reade (who felt that
young guys with safe jobs should get a glimpse of who was doing the
hard/dangerous work!) |
5/25/70, firebase |
5/25/70, firebase |
5/25/70, firebase |
5/25/70, Montagnard village |
5/25/70, firebase |
5/25/70, Montagnards; CSM Boyce got a kick out of introducing this 18 year-old to his first "National Geographic" females! |
5/70 II Corps HQ; weapons captured in Cambodia (what the students protesting at home didn't care to know about!) |
5/70 II Corps HQ; weapons captured in Cambodia |
5/70 II Corps HQ; weapons captured in Cambodia |
5/70 @ II Corps HQ; Dragon Mtn in background |
5/70 II Corps HQ; weapons captured in Cambodia |
5/70 II Corps HQ; weapons captured in Cambodia |
5/70 @ II Corps HQ; Dragon Mtn in background |
5/70 Dave @ II Corps HQ |
5/70 Dave @ II Corps HQ |
5/70 II Corps HQ; weapons captured in Cambodia |
Mist over Lake Bien Ho |
Courier ride in C-123 with cargo door left open; A-1 Spad w/bombs is following us |
Qui Nhon AFB; guy waving is (I believe) Hartshook from Columbus |
Doug Lorton hard at work |
Barracks at Log Center |
Punji pit at II Corps HQ |
Jeep @ Log Center |
C-7 and C-123 @ Pleiku AFB |
Jeep @ Log Center |
Mascots and friend @ Log Center |
Dave @ 45 GS GP HQ |
Dave counting the pop fund for conversion on "C" day |
Dave at his desk with military typewriter |
Dave and Doug |
Dave asking for direction (or perhaps asking for more of that new invention, Correct-o-type) |
Harold Dewald & Bill Long |
Harold and Doug |
45th HQ |
45th HQ |
Chinook @ Schmidt helipad |
Huey @ Schmidt helipad |
MACV compound just south of Schmidt after receiving a 122mm present |
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Landfill where in effort to scare new-in-country Dave stuck on dump
guard duty, someone fired rounds close
to Dave's head. Effort successful. |
Landfill again. During Dave's landfill guard duty, he listened to reports on AFVN about efforts to save Apollo 13 and return it safely to Earth. |
Landfill again. Note principal means of local transportation (Lambretta) |
Lake Bien Ho |
Lake Bien Ho |
Lake Bien Ho |
Arty Hill, 1970 |
Arty Hill from Camp Schmidt |
Change of Command, Colonel Reade (GREAT guy!) to Colonel Jackson, 25 Sep 1970 |
Change of Command, Colonel Reade to Colonel Jackson, 25 Sep 1970 |
Change of Command, Colonel Reade to Colonel Jackson, 25 Sep 1970 |
Change of Command, Colonel Reade to Colonel Jackson, 25 Sep 1970 |
Tower 7 view of west perimeter, Camp Schmidt |
Radio transmitter, north of Camp Schmidt |
Camp Schmidt from Tower 7 |
Arty Hill from Tower 7 |
Toward Log Center, from Tower 7 |
Toward Camp Wilson (?) from Tower 7 |
Barracks area, Camp Schmidt |
Barracks area, Camp Schmidt - after enlarging this photo I recognized boxed plastic models in locker that are now in my basement 31 years later - still unbuilt! |
45th HQ, toward Camp Schmidt main gate |
45th HQ front entrance, motor pool across street |
Helipad, Camp Schmidt |
MACV compound south of Camp Schmidt, complete w/minature golf! |
Tower 7 view north |
Tower 7 view south, Camp Schmidt & Tropo Hill |
Tower 7 toward Log Center |
Tower 1 east |
HueyCobra |
...and the MACV compound had a pool, too! |
Tropo Hill from Tower 1, rainbow to upper right |
Totally bogus photo, carried M-60 on tower guard, but never fired it |
Tower 1 view |
Tower 1 photo - bad hair day when I had enough hair to have bad hair days... |
Tower 1 at dusk toward Tropo Hill |
Yakkin' on the phone |
Change of Command, Colonel Reade to Colonel Jackson, 25 Sep 1970 |
Hard at work? |
Woodstock the puppy, Log Center |
Ken Wise and Richard Grass making a wish with Harold Dewald |
Log Center sun worshippers Bob Jennings and Dennis Baran, Arty Hill in background |
Change of Command, Colonel Reade to Colonel Jackson, 25 Sep 1970 |
A-1 Skyraider, Pleiku AFB |
C-130, Pleiku AFB |
Cessna 0-2, Pleiku AFB |
Pleiku |
Pleiku |
Pleiku, and the oft-photographed Shell station |
Pleiku |
Pleiku |
Pleiku |
Pleiku |
Pleiku |
Pleiku - a bunch of us went to visit the natives with our chaplain, who I believe is the guy with the apple on his head, posing for the guy with the crossbow |
Pleiku |
Pleiku |
Pleiku |
Pleiku - Note the Santa figure that appears to be made out of a drop tank... or is that a disguised 122mm rocket??? |
Pleiku |
Barracks, Camp Schmidt |
Log Center |
SSG Thomas and Ken Wise playing chess, Log Center |
Log Center |
Zapper poem... the truncated last word is one of our favorites...SHORT! |
Qui Nhon AFB base operations logo |
Log Center |
Log Center |
Log Center |
Official Photo, 45th GS GP HQ |
View from Arty Hill |
View from Arty Hill |
View from Arty Hill |
View from Arty Hill |
Bill Long and mascot |
Dave and mascot |
Guard Duty, Log Center |
Qui Nhon City |
Enroute to Qui Nhon |
Qui Nhon AFB HQ |
Enroute to Qui Nhon |
Enroute to Qui Nhon |
5/25/70, near Plei Djereng |
5/25/70, near Plei Djereng |
5/25/70, near Plei Djereng |
5/25/70, near Plei Djereng |
5/25/70, near Plei Djereng |
Somewhere over the Central Highlands |
Doug Lorton, Log Center |
Mountains north of Pleiku from Tower 1 |
Looks like Arty Hill to me (1999), from Pleiku website |
1999 Photo from Pleiku website, identified as Camp Schmidt entrance... non-recognizable to me |
Woodstock |
Bill Long and Woodstock |
Doug Lorton, quality time |
Guard duty, Log Center |
Another Huey that didn't make it back -somebody swiped it! |
Bill Long, practicing good nutrition |
