Travels With The II Corps Mobile Strike Force 1968-1969 I was privileged to spend the bulk of my tour of Vietnam in the company of Special Forces Mike Force units composed of Montagnard commando troops and organized into Ranger-type strike forces.
This is your basic stream crossing operation... Pleiku MSF 211, Oct '68. That's Cpt. Green In The Foreground. He Was KIA About Two Months After This Photo.	Another Stream Crossing On Area Reconaissance NE Of Banh Me Thuot With Pleiku MSF 212 Sept 69. **NOTE** Stream Crossings Were One Of The Few Opportunities To Grab A Camera & A Photo. I Normally Carried A Map In One Hand, A Compass In The Other And An M-16 At The Ready In The Other. None Left For A Camera. Stream Crossings Afforded A Short Break While The Far Side Was Recon'd Before We Crossed Allowing Time To Grab A Camera.	That's Me In The Foreground On A Quick Recon Patrol Looking For NVA Hideouts with Pleiku MSF 213, Nov '68, somewhere west of Bao Loc. **NOTE** Taking Photos In The Bush Was Quite Difficult In That Our Operations Lasted 30 Days and We Had To Live Out Of Our Rucksacks The Entire Time. The Jungle Weather & Stream Crossings Made It Difficult To Keep A Camera Dry & Operational. Especially During Monsoon Season.
Area reconaissance patrol, Ban Me Thuot MSF, Mar '69, Somewhere west of Dalat.	Me and 'Bac-Si' Skip after checking a suspected enemy weapons cache we found this former enemy soldier. Posing here with the skull of said former enemy soldier who apparently ceased consuming oxygen due to a 'sucking head wound'... Pleiku MSF 212, Nov '68	Still Trying To Find This Photo... Typical overnight accommodations in the bush. Can't see it very well? That's how it was supposed to be...
One each tired young Mountain Goat. What the photo doesn't show is the 85 Lb. rucksack, 100+ degree weather. Plus we'd already climbed every high mountain in sight	Stand Down Between Ops..  .. Got to do a 'family reunion' with my Uncle Freddie in Nha Trang. May 1969. Click Here to see why we called ourselves 'the most dangerous duo in Vietnam'. IE, 'The Rest Of The Story'.	Stand Down Between Ops.. ...The Boy Cleans Up Fairly Well, Given A Day Or Two In The Rear. Pictured Here With A New Mustache Taken With A Spanking New PX Camera.
The Worst Crash I Ever Walked Away From... Vicinity Of Dalat, SVN, 1969. It Used To Be A UH-1 Gunship.	Medevac For My Trusty RTO, John From Ohio. After This, I Got To Carry All The Gear Myself.