The Mighty Ninth

Strive To Reach The Summit


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MK140.jpgResultsLooking for results of the completed mission.
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MK141.jpgEOMHeading back to Firebase Oasis; end of mission.
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MK142.jpgNew BuildingBuilding a new underground TOC (Tactical Operations Center) for Arty at Firebase Oasis, 2/9th Bn HQ Operations Shop.
NOTE! Visit Walt Schneidereit's album, #WS-34, and you will see this same TOC being dismantled.
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MK143.jpgTinh NayVillage of Tinh Nay outside Oasis.
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MK144.jpgIn BusinessThe place for laundry and other services. Didn't take long for the locals to learn the basics of doing business the American way.
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MK145.jpgTCBTime to get some laundry and sewing done.
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MK146.jpg"Other" services"Hey GI...sister No. 1 virgin...love you long time".

(Number one was "good"; number ten was "bad")
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MK147.jpgHuman cost of warMama-san say: "You take baby girl home America...she make good wife".
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MK-148.jpgCareer ChangeFrom ground-pounding with the grunts to flying with the AF.
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MK149.jpgPleiku Air Force Base - This is Vietnam?Mothers: tell your children to join the Air Force. They know how to live!
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MK150.jpgLiving Quarters at Pleiku AFBThe "Cider FACs" house with the Officers Club up the hill. Great steaks with "hot & cold running" in the hooches and clean sheets on the beds.
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MK151.jpgPleiku Air Force BaseOn the ramp at Pleiku AFB, 1969.
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