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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