 | The tanks and APC's used to make their own "roads" through the jungle, and they didn't have to keep quiet like we did. The two men just in front of the rear tank and the one in the front were part of the section I was in.
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 | Head'em up and move'em out. Getting ready to climb on a troop of APC's at Nui Dat (1ATF) prior to going on an Op.
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 | We have a convoy!! Just follow the guy in front! We always rode on top of the APC's, never inside them. Apart from being too hot inside, it was much quicker to jump off them if there was a contact.
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 | This is where we had just been dropped off. As you can see it was usually a very dirty, dusty ride and it was always better to try and scrape off as much dust as possible before the sweat turned it to mud.
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 | This was the gun position at the main gate to the "horseshoe" (This was a horseshoe shaped hill easily defended with the only opening at the open horseshoe end). We did a brief stint here for a few days and to us, it was fairly luxurious (a roof over our heads, hammocks and proper meals). PS .. the officers ate on white table cloths!!
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 | A view of one of the bunkers that were spaced around the top of the horseshoe. These were constantly manned by different platoons. It was usually fairly quiet and restfull, and a relief from carrying a heavy pack.
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 | Looking down from the top of the "horseshoe". The fields you can see were farmed by the local farmers and it didn't look anything like a warzone.
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 | This is a view from inside the bunker at the Horseshoe's main gate looking over the top of the M60 machine gun towards the only entry into the Horseshoe. Both sides of the road outside the gate were heavily mined.
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 | Another view from inside the bunker at the Horseshoe's main gate. The clipboard next to the gun was to record everyone who went through the gate.
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 | Don't ya just love the smell of napalm in the morning!!!. If it was suspected that there were any enemy near to a drop off point for an operation then the gunships would shoot up the area first. This was one of the "yippee" shoots for the gunships.
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 | I can't remember where I took this one. It's two men being extracted by Iriquois.
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 | Looking up at a medivac helicopter winching a wounded man up. (He only had a small piece of shrapnel in his back).
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 | A chopper taking off after dropping us off at an LZ. The grass had caught fire after the gunships had shot it up first for a "hot insertion".
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 | Letting a few rounds fly!! The smoke, noise and smell were incredible. I guess you just had to be there!!
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 | And still more shooting. Oh, what a war!!!
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 | Pollution! What pollution.
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 | I think this guy was having his own private war.
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 | Walking single file through a clearing. We kept well spaced out in the clearings, walking in single file and getting throgh to the jungle on the other side as quickly as possible..
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 | About to enter the jungle after walking through the clearing. Once in the jungle we would close up to about 1-2 metres.
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 | A different place and different time. About to enter the jungle after walking through a clearing.
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