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Jack and Val on a hill overlooking the lowlands
Jack Schmitz and Val ‘Woody’ Wuthrich This post has another picture of Jack and I (Woody) on a hill overlooking the lowlands somewhere west of Hue. We were on patrol and may have been waiting for...
View ArticleGooks life saved by a tree branch
Leech Island, 1st Platoon, on patrol by ourselves, as usual. Now Leech Island is a good name for the place we were. It was double canopy jungle, deep, dark and damp, but not an island. We were on a...
View ArticleSoldier shot himself in the foot
I heard about a new soldier that shot himself in the leg shortly after being assigned to our platoon. He was one of two guys that joined out 1st platoon. The guy that shot himself had not even been...
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Night ambush on the Song Bo – Part 1
View of Song Bo river where we ambushed vietcong crossing the river in a sampan. Our platoon was on patrol along the Song Bo river in the mountains somewhere near the lowlands. The river was fairly...
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Night ambush on the Song Bo – Part 2
View of Song BO River, where we ambushed vietcong in a sampan. After striping down to his fatigue bottoms he dove into the river and swam out to where we last saw the sampan. When reached the middle...
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Hot LZ continued
Huey taking off from fire base with troops, headed to an LZ in the jungle. As my squad readied weapons and gear we were given final instructions by our squad leader, Sgt Dunn. He told us that our...
View ArticleRefusing to fire M-16 during weapons inspection and target practice
While on stand down I was assigned to re-qualify men on the proper use of and proficiency with their M-16 rifles. After re-qualifying several men, a man came to the firing range line and stated that...
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