Gallery 9 - Miscellaneous Activities

GALLERY 9
MISCELLANEOUS ACTIVITIES
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The following pictures include a variety of activities and events during my tour of duty. The first group of photographs involve a typical airmobile mission. We would be told to get ready for the mission and meet at a staging area, usually the helicopter landing pad or field. When the choppers arrived, 4 to 6 troopers got on board each helicopter. The helicopter was manned by a pilot, copilot, a crew chief and a doorgunner. Below are pictures of a patrol returning from its mission in Huey helicopters.

The helicopter troop can
be seen in the distance

The formation is coming
in for a landing

The skids are about to
touch ground

The troops will now
disembark

The Huey will lift off
after dropping the troops

The empty chopper
heads back to its bunker

Each of the other
choppers follows suit

The chopper positions
itself in its bunker

Various activities at camp involved cleaning and maintaining the mortar, as well as the M-16 weapons and practicing fire missions. Guard duty was also assigned from time to time. Meals were flown in by helicopter at least once a day and there were often supplies such as fresh eggs which allowed us to cook them ourselves.


Salazar posing with a cleaned 81 mm. mortar	A Guard Tower at LZ Betty	Salazar cleaning his M-16	Salazar in front of his hootch at LZ Virginia
Salazar making soft-boiled eggs at LZ Virginia	A hot meal at LZ Betty at least once a day	Time off to spend at the beach at Phan Thiet	Salgado, Allen, Pugh and Dandrea practicing a fire mission
Helicopters lifting us off at LZ Virginia	A shot of Phan Thiet countryside from a Chinook helicopter	Mione at his bunker at LZ Virginia	An Army vessel unloading on the beach at Phan Thiet

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Last Updated: 01/05/09

GALLERY 9 MISCELLANEOUS ACTIVITIES (Click on thumbnail pictures to enlarge)

GALLERY 9
MISCELLANEOUS ACTIVITIES
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