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101Rick.jpg (25055 bytes) Rick Shepard, Phu Cat 1972 (Tommy Cav Belt) H Trp1.jpg (88521 bytes)

 

FNG gets checkride. An Son, 1972 (FU Foot for all below)
scanned.jpg (34886 bytes) C Troop, then H Troop Opns (Tommy Cav Belt) H Trp2.jpg (41794 bytes)

 

Okay, where's the door?

(FU Foot)

TMP13.jpg (34886 bytes) Steve and Roger, Mission Ready! (Tommy Cav Belt) WO1 Shepard.jpg (96452 bytes) Is this Cav hat cool or what? I wasn't always fufoot. A 12.7 mm AP through both feet changed that on 18AUG72. This was shot at Camp Holloway, just east of the O-club. I was 22. A year later, in JUN73 I would finally leave the hospital and soon after be medically retired as a CW2

 

TMP2.jpg (30743 bytes) Cav Hunter-Killers, An Son 1972 (Tommy Cav Belt) Roger, Zero & Chuck.jpg (33718 bytes) Don't worry, Chuck, I know its a new snake.  Roger Lone, Bill Starnes & Chuck Scribner [L to R] at Phu Cat Jun 72. Roger, in a BRAND NEW snake, about 2 weeks later caught a B-40 on the left side w/ frags through his neck. He's a charter pilot now, flies GulfStream IV jets

 

TMP5.jpg (43533 bytes) Year Book pic page 1 1972  (Tommy Cav Belt) Agfa ScanWise 1.jpg (45947 bytes) Okay, that two with everything and no anchovies...  White Zero [Bill Starnes] getting the info on our next mission. This photo was taken late June or early July 72 at Phu

 

TMP6.jpg (41930 bytes) Year Book pic Page 2, 1972 (Tommy Cav Belt) Untitled1[1].jpg (40703 bytes) Okay, guys, we're sending you back in there...  This was at LZ Crystal, early Aug72. Its a mission briefing. By the looks of the faces, it ain't good. We were goin'

 

TMP7.jpg (52534 bytes) Cobra patch An Loh River.jpg (28442 bytes) Something's happening down there  
1971_Bill_Best_Cobra_Rearm.jpg (140067 bytes) Bill Best Cobra Re-Arm BonSonBridges1.jpg (102839 bytes) Bong Son bridges
1971_CE_Gunners_and_Pilots.jpg (31590 bytes) Crew Chiefs, gunner and pilots, 1971 Blues to the Rescue.jpg (91334 bytes) Blues to the rescue!
1971_Flechettes_Out.jpg (86089 bytes) Flechettes out! C Trp Scouts patch.jpg (70520 bytes) C Troop Scouts patch
1971_Khe_Sanh_Lam_Son_719.jpg (28834 bytes) Khe Sanh, Lam Son 719 KheSanhBunkerA.JPG (63390 bytes) Khe Sanh bunker
1971_Lane_Officer_hootches.jpg (55597 bytes) Lane AAF, officers hooches. 1971 KheSanhC-TrpAreaA.JPG (51020 bytes) Troop area, Khe Sanh
1971_Loach_and_Snake_Pilots.jpg (43372 bytes) Loach & snake pilots 1971 KheSanhFlightLine1A.JPG (52917 bytes)

Loaches

Flight line, Khe Sanh

1971_Snake_and_Loach_Pilots.jpg (28976 bytes) Snake & Loach pilots, 1971 KheSanhFlightLine2A.JPG (37213 bytes)

Loaches

Flight line, Khe Sanh

2L_ow_Birds_in_AOA.JPG (100867 bytes) Two loaches working the AO, 1971 KheSanhFlightLine3A.JPG (29623 bytes)

Slicks

Flight line, Khe Sanh

50CalA.JPG (50528 bytes) .51 Cal hit KheSanhFlightLine4A.JPG (42801 bytes)

Flight line

Khe Sanh

Lane_Army_Heliport1.jpg (36397 bytes)

Lane Army Air Field,

An Son

KheSanhFlightLine5A.JPG (43422 bytes)

Flight line

Khe Sanh

Lane_Maintenance_Hangars.jpg (27975 bytes) Lane maintenance hangers KheSanhSandBagsA.JPG (56957 bytes) Filling Sandbags, Khe Sanh
Lane_Night_Fire_GuysA.JPG (65952 bytes) Watching night firing, Lane KheSanhTowerA.JPG (37459 bytes) Khe Sanh tower
Lane_Pilot_Bar_1971A.JPG (57868 bytes)

Pilot's bar, Lane

1971

KheSanh-GuysA.JPG (53089 bytes) Guys on the flight line, Khe Sanh
Latrine- Lane AHP-1970.JPG (71096 bytes) Latrine at Lane Mal Doremus at Khe Sanh 1971A.JPG (39752 bytes) Mal Doremus at Khe Sanh
    Mal Doremus flyingA.JPG (24597 bytes) Mal Doremus in flight
Mike CorcoranA.JPG (41468 bytes) Mike Cochran Mean Team.jpg (39242 bytes) The Mean Team!
Morris_Hengles_Parmeter_RamseyA.JPG (40570 bytes) Morris, Hengles, Parmeter and Ramsey Shepard1.jpg (91356 bytes)
This is the Pale Horse.... same Air Craft that appeared on the cover of HAWK
Summer-Fall 1971 issue.  Photo taken at Holloway April72
mr. bradley l.z.jpg (245497 bytes) Mr. Bradley? Shepard2.jpg (80635 bytes)

Soup & Roger Webster, Lane - Jul72.  The chair to Soup's

right is "The War Stories Chair"  which was appropriately elevated so as to keep the story teller above the shit which often got pretty deep during story telling time. 

Shepard3.jpg (95638 bytes)
C Troop Snake over AnKhe...March72... on the way to the Mang Yang Pass for Convoy cover mission
Shepard4.jpg (98964 bytes) Steve Shepard
Shepard5.jpg (40413 bytes)
Enroute to Holloway at beginning of Easter Offensive 30MAR72

 

 
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