1. I think this is uphill of 2/265 RRU bunker on FB Whip (Hill 831).
2. PRD-1 team ready to do a day trip from LZ Sally. They would go out
early with the team clearing the mines and drop off the road at a
pre-determined point, usually within sight of friendly forces or close
enough that a Pink Team from 101 Aviation could get to them in just a
few minutes, set up for the day and be back at Sally in time to get on
the perimeter for guard duty that night.
3. 2/265 RRC bunker on Fire Base Whip (Hill 831 in A Shau Valley).
Built with 16x16 timbers, PSP and lots of 105mm boxes filled with sand,
this was an almost water proof home for four months. The teams operated
out of the facility and went to remore locations by Huey. Net control
was at LZ Sally, control forward at Whip and two additional PRD-1 teams
on nearby fire bases or LZ's.
5. Ditty Bopper doing RTO work at FB Birmingham. This was when we still
used OTP's before the arrival of the PRC-77 and KY-38.
Anybody remember the Hestia Pad?
6. FB Birmingham, not friendly to the environment as you can see. The
foliage is gone due to artillery (inbound as well as outbound). The red
dirt was always either wet and mucky or extremelfy dry and powdery,
never just laid there on the ground the way it was supposed to.
7. Two ARVN interrogators from HHC, 2nd Bde, 101st Air Mobile (we has
just been redesignated and were not yet through the guinea pig stage
into the Air Assault yet). They hung around with our Dancers (the
Dancers are on another slide that I have yet to digitize).
8. Reverse view of the 2/265 RRU bunker at FB Whip (Hill 831) in the A
Shau Valley. Internal defense line is just to right of bunker. Whip
was stand-down location for an infantry platoon who usually pulled
perimter defense, RRU guys were internal defense for the Brigade TOC
Forward. It was a deal we had worked out with the BDE CO and S-2.
(Note, most of the guys working the PRD-1 in this platoon went home with
the CIB. 2/265 had only one wounded, no KIA in 1968-69 as far as I
remember.)
9. Dingy Thompson sharing spicey letter from home with Tom Callahan.
