Ron
It's hard to tell from the picture because a 2.5 and 5 ton cargo truck looked so much alike except for the 5 ton being larger. When I was there in Jan and part of Feb in convoys on rt 19 the idea of gun trucks was pretty new. Some Officer with the 8th Trans came up with the idea to put armour plating on duce in a halfs [2'm-60s, grenade launcher] because they were running into snipers, mines or ambushes almost daily. We had one gun truck and a gun jeep for every 10 trucks and a 5'ton with quad 50's for every 20.
In Feb 1968 we moved to the Hue Phu Bie area on LST's. [It was a different type of war/convoy thing there with us being attached to the Marines for a while. A while back you mentioned a bar in Phu Bie where you got into a fight with some Marines. Which bar was it?
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