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JCook21.jpg"Base Camp" - Jan 1966This is our FDC location at Base Camp, Pleiku, 11Jan66. Sp4 Larry L. Black is half-turned to the camera, Sp4 James McBrayer, Jr is using the pick to make foxholes, Huckaby is by the "Pink Kitty". The "Pink Kitty" is the FDC training trailer that we brought over from Hawaii. We decided later that a plywood FDC trailer above ground was not a smart move. The picture is looking north, northwest.
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JCook2.jpg"B" Battery OfficersCaptains Byron, Rice, and Osborne. Capt Osborne took over after Capt Rice's departure. {"Byron" should be Capt Max R. Barron, former XO of "B" Battery}
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JCook2a.JPG"B" Battery OfficersSame photo, minus the cardboard slide frame. Captains Barron, Rice & Osborne.
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JCook3.jpgFDC tries out the gunsThat's me holding the 105mm round for loading into the breech. The gun-bunnies said I was "too slow" and suggested I return to the FDC. We were celebrating the 50,000th round...note the sign in the background against the sandbags.
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JCook4.jpgMail CallThe greatest morale booster in all of Vietnam. You stand around and wait for your name to be hollered out during Mail Call. Battery Commander Frederick Rice holds a white Polaroid camera in his left hand during the mail call.
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JCook5.jpgField ServicesOutdoor mass in the field.
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JCook6.jpg"Short Round" - the mascotGreat coincidence! Danny Fort also has this very same photo in his Photo Gallery. "Short Round" was just a pup in 1966.
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JCook7.jpgRSOPAll the FDC gear is packed on a 1/4-ton trailer and awaiting airlift by a CH-47. Got my trusty M-16 next to my pickaxe. Gotta decide which one is more reliable.
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JCook9.jpgDemonstrationWe're showing the ARVNs how we fill sandbags. They were glad to let us do it.
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JCook10.jpgDee-FenseGrabbing material of some sort to improve our defensive position.
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JCook11.jpgGI CookWe got some eggs somehow and so here I am, cooking them up. Note the "stateside uniform": fatigues with the white cloth nametags, the black & gold "US Army" tag, and the 25th Inf Div patch on the LEFT shoulder, which would eventually wind up on the RIGHT shoulder.
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