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Price_Reunion_7.jpgReunion Photos - Dave PriceThe Paladin 155mm howitzer firing during the demonstration.
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Price_Reunion_6.jpgReunion Photos - Dave PriceToday's FDC? Not quite! All the computer laptops were behind these men out of sight. The old firing chart with RDP and square are on display...probably just for our benefit to remind us of our time in service...ie, the "old days". And, yes...the "check chart" has been abolished.
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Price_Reunion_11.jpgReunion Photos - Dave PriceThe reunion agenda included an invitation to a retirement ceremony on the Old Post grounds... a great historic site at Ft. Sill. The horse-drawn caisson passes in review.
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Price_Reunion_13.jpgReunion Photos - Dave PriceRetirement ceremony - passing in review.
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Price_Reunion_14.jpgReunion Photos - Dave PriceRetirement ceremony - presenting the colors.
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Price_Reunion_12.jpgReunion Photos - Dave PriceAfter the retirement ceremony, we were able to get a close-up view of the caisson.
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Price_Reunion_10.jpgReunion Photos - Dave PriceAfter the retirement ceremony, the 2/9th FA reunion agenda included a "story telling" at the Old Post Buffalo Soldiers barracks area. Retired SGM Wallace Moore was dressed in period uniform to recount the history of the Buffalo Soldiers and the history of the era.
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Price_Reunion_8.jpgReunion Photos - Dave PriceVisit to the Ft Sill Museum: The FADAC - "Field Artillery Digital Analog Computer". It was the field artillery's first attempt to use a "computer" back in the 1960s for fire direction computation of deflection and quadrant elevation. It didn't prove itself at Ft Sill and neither in Vietnam. We were better with the training gained from spending weeks in Snow Hall.
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Price_Reunion_9.jpgReunion Photos - Dave PriceAh...the great memories of the FDC tools we used in Vietnam. The only thing missing is the CONEX container that provided a 24-hr protected work environment. Without that, the FDC would be out of commission and unable to operate with the weather extremes found in the jungle. The "tent FDC" shown was a "first effort", but very untenable; we would be chasing maps and papers all over the place.
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Reunion_Photo_-_Joe_Cook.JPGReunion Photo - Joe CookWelcome Home, "Blue Lighters". Joe Cook, Raymond Hobbs, and Mike Huseth were among the first arrivals in Nam from the 2/9th FA's home in Hawaii. Directly behind them are Les Cotten and Ernie Kingcade...also of "Blue Light" fame.
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DF-1.JPGReunion Photos - Dnny "Cowboy" FortVeteran Bill Kull and wife Linda attending the 2/9th Reunion at Ft Sill.
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DF-2.JPGReunion Photos - Danny "Cowboy" FortBuses arrived at the Basic Training Battalion Hq to begin our 1st Day agenda.
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