Al "Short Round" Ballard - Company A 1/22 Infantry Nov 1968 - Oct 1969

 

LZ Slack - re-inforcing the wire

SP4 Harris with roll of wire, SP4 Lawrence by the fence

 

LZ Slack - more wire

Left - SP4 Lawrence, Upper New York State -- Right - SP4 Harris, Memphis, TN

 

Weekly change of clothes

 

Rolls of wire around LZ Slack

 

LZ Slack - monsoons as seen from inside a bunker

 

LZ Slack - full pack and M-72 LAW

Note: belt of ammo for the M-60 machine gun at top of pack & spare battery for PRC-77 radio on top of bedroll

 

LZ Slack

on the left, "Big Tom" ------ on the right, "Hombre" (sniper, carried an M-14 rifle with scope)

 

LZ Mile High September 1969

 

LZ Mile High

CPT Itschner on the left, 1SGT Wren on the right

 

LZ Mile High - mortar position

 

LZ Slack May 1969

Disgusted Al with his personal possesions

 

 


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