I found my old Army album

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VisualBrian

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This is mostly from my second tour in Korea with the 23rd Infantry. My first tour with the 32nd Infantry they didn't offer a yearbook (so to speak) and I don't know how many of those pictures survived or where they might be.

My unit...
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Gunners and Grenadiers
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me in the field
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being awarded top squad leader
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it wasn't all field duty ;)
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The girl in the photo with me turned out to be my wife of 34 years.
 
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VisualBrian said:
This is mostly from my second tour in Korea with the 23rd Infantry. My first tour with the 32nd Infantry they didn't offer a yearbook (so to speak) and I don't know how many of those pictures survived or where they might be.

My unit...
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Gunners and Grenadiers
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me in the field
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being awarded top squad leader
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it wasn't all field duty ;)
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The girl in the photo with me turned out to be my wife of 34 years.
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I'm stunned by what appears to be an AR-15 rifle in one picture with the updated flash suppressor. Heck, we were given 15's with the old style 3 prong suppressor at first. Nasty thing that were forever getting hung up in jungle foliage. Was so glad to get the newer (I thought) closed end suppressor. No more dragging along that dense jungle growth. (didn't need any extra weight. LOL


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squatting dog said:
I'm stunned by what appears to be an AR-15 rifle in one picture with the updated flash suppressor. Heck, we were given 15's with the old style 3 prong suppressor at first. Nasty thing that were forever getting hung up in jungle foliage. Was so glad to get the newer (I thought) closed end suppressor. No more dragging along that dense jungle growth. (didn't need any extra weight. LOL
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We had no AR-15's then. Just M-16s, M-203 grenade launchers, and M-60 machine guns. Some earlier M-16's did have the open suppressors, but I was never issued one. can see where they would want to grab things. LOL
 
This is where I served my first tour in Korea, Camp Casey. The Quonset huts were common living and operations buildings throughout the base. The drainage diches served to keep everything from being flooded during the monsoon season.
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Whenever an alert was sounded, we deployed to the DMZ, our sector being hilltop 115 or 116, to keep the north from advancing. We also conducted nightly patrols into the DMZ in an effort to detect and eliminate enemy intrusion. Luckily, in all my time inside the DMZ, I never encountered a threat. The Korean conflict is still considered an ongoing threat to this day.
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And again, it wasn't all field duty. When back at the base, the "ville" (Tong Du Chon) was a mile long strip with many night clubs to satisfy any soldier's taste.
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These images are not mine and possibly not from my time in Korea, but to the best of my recollection portray the actual conditions and circumstances of my time at Camp Casey (circa 1975-1976)
 
squatting dog said:
Yep. besides being great foliage collectors, the open suppressor worked great as banding cutters on SP packages. (slip them over the banding and twist). 😀
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Yes, the Army in its infinite wisdom provided us with many multipurpose items, like the helmet camouflage band which was great for holding things like your little bottle of Tabasco sauce.
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I have two in the silverware drawer for when the power goes out, which it does on a regular basis. Equally great for opening that can of "beans and bullets" and cleaning your fingernails.
 
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