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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.

4. Saint George Hotel in Cholon.

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.

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