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Michael Belis Company C 1/22 Infantry 1970-1971

Tuy Hoa 1971 - barracks for 3rd Platoon "Sidewinders"
That wall around the building was about 3 feet thick and filled with sand.
That, and the tin shutters, seen here closed against the windows, were supposed
to protect us from fragments from rockets and mortars. The wall was also
a fighting position in the event the base was overrun.

Me inside the barracks at Tuy Hoa

My dogtags. At the PX at the base at Tuy Hoa, I a bought "dogtag silencer", a plastic holder
for them, and a plastic tube for the chain on which they hung around my neck.
This is the second set issued to me while I was in Germany. The first set I had been issued
at Fort Polk in 1969 had both my Social Security Number and my Army Serial Number.
This one had only my SSN.

Painting the backs of claymores to be used at the guard bunkers on the perimeter line.
The mines were painted with ID numbers for each of the different positions.

One of the guard towers at Tuy Hoa. That was one long climb to get up to that tower.

South China Sea, eastern side of the base at Tuy Hoa - A couple of sampans got too close to the base
and we fired M-79 rounds at them to warn them off. The splash from one round can be seen.

Mortar pit at Tuy Hoa for "Popeye" our mortar platoon

Connex for mortar platoon at Tuy Hoa

"Chief" - squad leader, 4th squad 3rd Platoon
Note 22nd Infantry DUI on his right pocket

Rodrigue in guard tower number 0-13. Note the 22nd Infantry sign at the right.

A convoy comes into the southwestern end of the base at Tuy Hoa

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Guys from 3rd Platoon checking out the bulletin board

Michael "Spanky" Sullivan in guard tower at Tuy Hoa

Me in guard tower with telephone and binoculars
Note clackers for the claymores on the ledge in front of me.
I'm wearing a rain jacket.

Spanky horsing around - note the bandoleers of magazines,
and at the left a parachute flare or star cluster on the ledge.

Roger and I had gone through AIT together. Afterwards I went to APC drivers school, he went to Airborne school.
We later ended up together at the 4th Division replacement center at An Khe, where I was assigned to 3rd Platoon
and he was assigned to 2nd Platoon. After humping the boonies, he got a job at Tuy Hoa as one of the truck
drivers for the Company. (That's not his name on the cab door.) Note the 173 AB patch on his shirt. We operated
so close to that unit that we often got our laundries mixed together. Half the time we didn't bother to take their
patches off, we just wore the shirt like we got it.

Hooch maid at Tuy Hoa

Woodbury had a Polaroid camera and knew how to make a "double exposure" with it.
He took this of me clowning around. That's me on the left, and me on the right.

I accidentally made this double exposure when I failed to wind the camera lever all the way.
Left to right: me, Gama, Ski