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Top: A Small gun for a small guy
Bottom: Paperwork, even in the field
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Top: HQ TOC this is their monkey
Bottom: CS Gas container, dropped from helicopters
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The Troop's dogs. Can you name them?
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Dogs and monkeys,that was our thing.
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Top: Agent Orange in the background
Bottom: A safe Orderly Room
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Top: Gen.Westmoreland and friends came to see all the captured weapons.
Bottom: Weapons found underground near Blackhorse.
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Sgt. Thiele, Bird Dogs, KIA
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Top: 11 A/C Monument in Blackhorse
Bottom: This monument now in Ft Knox
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Top: VC blows a bridge. Bottom: A captured weapon.
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Bear Cat from the air
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CH-47 from the 214th CAB with supplies.
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122mm Rocket. Camp Eagle, early '68
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Top: RPG, the weapon we all hated. Botom: Blown tank at Bastogne, early '68.
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A day with the 82nd Airborne
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Top: 1st SGT takes a nap. Bottom:This was my big toe, almost lost it.
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Top: That wonderful mud! Bottom: Medcap, helping the kids.
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Captain Garrettson when he made Major. A-Troop Commander. Killed at Ft. Hood,TX
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Fields of fire,WHERE???
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The complete details of the Battle are contained in the Octofoil dated March '68, Volume 1.
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Ambush TET FSB Apple, the beginning of the Tet Offensive, January 31st 1968. The diagram shows the four ambush sites
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A-Troop awards for 31 Jan '68
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Casualties TET '68
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Radio Journal 1
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Radio Journal 2
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Radio Journal 3
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Radio Journal 4
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