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LZ_Tuffy_-_Mike,_Carl_and_George.JPGLZ Tuffy - 1970Mike Medley, "Carl the FNG" (but great guy who saved my butt on the Advance Party going into the cluster at Susie Pig), and Eugene "George" Jarisch getting cleaned up in front of our hooch.
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LZ_Tuffy_-_Million_Dollar_view.JPGLZ Tuffy - 1970Million dollar views from Tuffy - this slide and next. Unless, of course, you looked 1800 mils and saw the ridgeline lurking over the firebase. It was a mother to try to hump trunks up the steep sides of those hills to use for overhead cover. The mountaintop was so small and steep that we could only fire the full battery (I think we were still down a tube at that time) on high angle. {continued next slide}
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LZ_Tuffy_-_Sikorksky_Crane_arrives.JPGLZ Tuffy - 1970The Sikorsky Skycrane unloads a huge log, almost as long as the LZ. Many hooches used it as a foundation.
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LZ_Tuffy_-_Moving_In.JPGLZ Tuffy - 1970LZ Tuffy now has our CONEX landed.
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LZ_Tuffy_-_Carl___Denny.JPGLZ Tuffy - 1970Carl (?), a new guy from Georgia, and Denny Mrowczynski, working the sandbagging detail.
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LZ_Tuffy_-_Mike_Medley.JPGLZ Tuffy - 1970My arrival at LZ Tuffy. This is the FDC share of the big log with me sitting on it over a rubber lady.
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LZ_Tuffy_-_New_Home.JPGLZ Tuffy - 1970Finished. A real tropical resort; the sand is mud. Home-No-So-Sweet-Home at LZ Tuffy.
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LZ_Tuffy_-_Shithook_arrives.JPGLZ Tuffy - 1970A CH-47 Chinook (Shithook) arrives to bring in a M102 howitzer.
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Gamble_KIA.JPGLZ St George battle aftermathThis is the spot on the gun pit where PFC David John Gamble was KIA during the battle on 6Nov69. (See "TAPS" - David John Gamble).
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St_Geo_Bunker.JPGLZ St George battle aftermathAnother bunker at LZ St George destroyed by sappers in the battle of November, 1969. I think Sgt Jim "Tex" Shelton sent this photo to me.
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Blown_Bunker.JPGLZ St George battle aftermathOne of the above-ground monsoon bunkers at St. George blown by the sappers. I think this and the next two photos were sent to me by Jim "Tex" Shelton since I was out of film during the aftermath.
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LZ__Marie.JPGLZ MarieOn the way to LZ Marie, we got the "good news" that we had been dropped off a few klicks short the intended spot; we had to double-time on down by foot since the shithooks were laid on for the lift. LZ Marie started off bad since they landed the Advance Party a few klicks away from where we were supposed to be and we had to hoof it to the right location. This LZ was just outside of a rubber plantation. We could see the enemy scampering around their bunkers among the rubber trees. We weren't supposed to shoot into a French plantation without higher (economic impact) authority. However, we did shoot the guns like mortars - high angle charge 1. About 15 minutes later the French plantation manager pulled up in his jeep raising holy hell in French. I had flunked college French and one of the other guys had taken it in high school so we tried to calm him down, which only made him madder since we were butchering his native tongue. The rear sent out a settlement team to pay him off in short order, less than an hour. I sure wish the rear could have produced a pair of 9 1/2 boots - two weeks - as fast as they sent that settlement team.
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