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May 1971, Long Thanh North, "Boy this is an interesting article!"
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May 1971, Long Thanh North, Rick Holt reading the radio relay operators manual.
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May 1971, Long Thanh North, "Triple Threat", flack jacket, steel pot and weapons card. They took our weapons away and gave us a card instead.
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May 1971, Long Thanh North, Rick Holt writing a letter
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Long Thanh North, April 1971, hootch maids washed clothes in the tank on this trailer
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May 1971, Long Thanh North, SP4 Gary W. Duff and Moss. Duff is wearing his plastic 'sweat' suit trying to sweat off some pounds before he heads home.
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May 1971, Long Thanh North, SP4 Gary W. Duff helps me make a recording home. He was within days of his DEROS as I recall and it was a lively tape.
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May 1971, Long Thanh North, Rick Holt and SP5 Murphy at the ice cream truck. Momma-san is hiding her face behind a brown bag.
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May 1971, Long Thanh North, Ice cream truck that use to visit the flight line. Sgt Davis (l) and PFC O'Briant (r)
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May 1971, Long Thanh North, SP4 Seacord and Moss
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May 1971, Long Thanh North, SP4 Seacord, aka "Ocean Rope"
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May 1971, Long Thanh North, Rick recording a lively tape to send home.
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Freedom Hill Bowling Center, Da Nang, April 1971, you can just barely make out the momma-san pin setter.
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Vietnamese girl actually posed for this picture. Freedom Hill Bowling Center. April 1971.
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Freedom Hill Bowling Center. Da Nang. April 1971. I really enjoyed the couple times I went here.
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Freedom Hill Bowling Center. Da Nang. April 1971. A little air conditioning would have been nice. Oh, well what can you expect in a combat zone.
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Da Nang airfield, approach from the coast, March 1971
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Da Nang, 37th Signal Battalion, momma-san was sick this day. Found her on this empty cot.
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Red Cross Center at Freedom Hill, Da Nang, March 1971
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Long Thanh North, motor pool detail, Rick is front and center with the funky boony hat. Photo from the unit yearbook.
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Long Thanh North, an evening at the Playboy Lounge. Rick is standing back right in the light colored T-shirt. Instenes is standing to his left.
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Sign we made for the door of our hootch in Da Nang. March 1971. Rick's idea. Paulson artwork.
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Feb. 1971. Da Nang. From the back of an Air Force pickup truck returning from China Beach.
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Feb. 1971, Da Nang, SP5 Handy and SP4 Kelm, drunken GI.
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Feb. 1971, Da Nang, Paulson and Kelm browse the Pacex catalong
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Feb. 1971, Da Nang, "Smiley" our hootch maid at 37th Signal.
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Feb. 1971, Da Nang, "Smiley" our hootch maid and the old lady in the background.
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Long Thanh North, June 1971, "Nam" shows the old lady how to fold sleeves.
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Long Thanh North, June 1971, the hootch maids like to hang out in our hootch because we had one of the few tables.
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Long Thanh North, June 1971, hootch maids
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Long Thanh North, June 1971, inside bunker, note numbered triggers for claymore mines and field telephone.
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Long Thanh North, June 1971, view from inside bunker, note numbered markers for claymore mines.
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Long Thanh North, June 1971, 210th Aviation Co. on right by the new flags and 2nd Signal Group Aviation Det. Hdgtrs. at the far end of the road.
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