David
Fri January 9, 2004 6:12am
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101st Division LRP Cloth
101st Division LRP Cloth Scroll 7/1965-11/1967
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David
Fri January 9, 2004 6:12am
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101st Support Bn. Patches
101st Support Bn. Patches (101st Abn.) 1968-Current
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David
Fri January 9, 2004 6:12am
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320th Field Arty. 101st A
320th Field Arty. 101st Airborne Div. Helmet Cover
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David
Fri January 9, 2004 6:12am
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426th Support FWd.Bn 101s
426th Support FWd.Bn 101st Airborne Div. Helmet Cover
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David
Fri January 9, 2004 6:13am
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101st Abn. Artillery Pock
101st Abn. Artillery Pocket Patch Div. Artillery
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David
Fri January 9, 2004 2:24pm
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101st M.I., LRSD Beret Fl
101st M.I., LRSD Beret Flash (LRSD) 1/1989
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David
Mon October 4, 2004 10:48am
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Sgt. Michael D. Acklin II
Sgt. Michael D. Acklin II
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Battery C, 1st Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault)
Louisville, Kentucky
Killed when two 101st Airborne Division UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters collided in mid-air over Mosul, Iraq, on November 15, 2003
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David
Mon October 4, 2004 11:16am
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Sgt. Evan Asa Ashcraft
Sgt. Evan Asa Ashcraft
24
Company A, 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault)
West Hills, California
Killed when his vehicle was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade during an ambush of a military convoy north of Hawd in northern Iraq on July 24, 2003
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David
Mon October 4, 2004 11:23am
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Spc. Ryan T. Baker
Spc. Ryan T. Baker
24
4th Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault)
Brown Mills, New Jersey
Killed when two 101st Airborne Division UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters collided in mid-air over Mosul, Iraq, on November 15, 2003
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Bill Farnie
Tue October 4, 2005 1:02pm
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Repel Training
Repel training at the Screaming Eagles Replacement School (SERTS) at Camp Ray Bien Hoa RVN September 1968. All 101st Airborne Division replacements went to SERTS before joining their unit. SERTS was one week in duration.
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Bill Farnie
Tue October 18, 2005 5:21am
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Final Assault Hamburger H
Photo that belonged to COL(R) Joseph B. Conmy Jr. (CO, 3rd Brigade, 101st Airborne
Division, 1968-1969), showing the unit positions for the final assault on Dong Ap Bia (Hamburger Hill).
Photo furnished by Salvador Gonzalez (D Co, 1st BN, 1968-1969) and Richard Freeman (B Co, 1st BN, 1969-1970)
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frisco-kid
Sun December 4, 2005 8:16pm
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100_0094
You can't see it clearly, but there's a 101st insignia on the tail.
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frisco-kid
Sun December 4, 2005 9:13pm
Rating: 10
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100_0089
The only disturbing place for me on the whole trip was the War Museum in Saigon. I went there after stopping at the Buddhist temple, "U.S. PARATROOPER" hat and all. You pay less than a buck to get in. You then enter a gallery depicting the war in pictures. One of the first displays is of unit patches of all of the American units involved in the war. You then meander through a hall lined with blown-up pictures of U.S. forces in kinda chronological order. The first thing I noticed about them was that they were all taken from Life Magazine, newswire agencys, etc., many of them famous pictures. They were given usually slanted captions. Their museum; I guess they can say whatever they want. Some of them were wrong, also. They had several of the 101st dated when I was with them and the location stated wasn't accurate. They did have one cool picture of us making the jump at Kontum, taken from inside the plane as we exited the door. I don't think I was in it, though. I don't recall a photographer on my plane.
As you exit the building, you go through an outside exhibit of U.S. military equipment. These are the one's I have pictured.
When you cross the exhibit, you enter another building. This is the one I really had a problem with. The whole theme of the exhibit inside is depicting us a s barbarians and war criminals. It starts out with an exhibit explaining Agent Orange; pictures of planes spraying it; topped off with a couple deformed fetuses in jars claiming to be caused by the effects of AO. It then flows into pictures of napalm drops on villes and countryside; pictures of burnt victims; and the centerpiece,.....the little naked girl running down the road away from a napalm strike. The caption conveniently doesn't mention that this was an ARVN Air Force drop. I set the record straight with several Europeans that were near me. It then, of course, went into pictures of My Lai. As I moved through the pictures, I noticed one of the uniformed security guards was watching me. I stopped and locked eyes with him until he looked away. Phuck him. Did the same thing with a couple Europeans that I caught giving me side glances. It then went through a group of pictures of us handling prisoners and dead bodies. One of them was a picture of an APC dragging three bodies down a road. The caption said that the three was dragged to death but, upon a closer look, you could see that one had an obvious GSW to the head. There were others with prisoners being led by ropes around their necks with the caption reading that we treated prisoners worse than we would animals. On the way out of the building there was another room with a sign above it saying something like "Children Remember The War Through Drawings And Writings," or something like that. I could only imagine what half-truths and lies were being presented in there. I was too pissed to go in. I walked out and told my driver lets get the phuck out of here. It might be their museum, but I don't have to like it. I'm sure my body language told them so, too.
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frisco-kid
Sun December 4, 2005 11:55pm
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12-3-2005-23
After we left Dalat, headed back to Saigon, we stopped 8-10mi. out of town at Prenn Falls. This is one of several falls in the area. You pay a small fee to enter, and it has a bit of a theme park atmosphere to it. As you enter, there are several psuedo thatched roof structures selling drinks, food, and souveniers.
I escorted convoys from Cam Ranh Bay, through Phan Rang, and up the climb to Dalat. There was a Special Forces camp and an aviation outfit on a small airstrip near here that we hauled fuel to. I don't remember seeing any of the falls from the road back then. Always thought this was some beautiful country. It was deceiving, though. We made contact with Charlie up here sometimes.
In FEB67 did a small operation about 30mi. from here around a place called Bao Lac with the 101st. It was also an area of some dramatic waterfalls.
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Max101st
Mon January 16, 2006 10:41am
Rating: 9
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B Co 1/327th
C.A. to hill 882
B Co 1/327th Inf 101st Abn Div (AMBL) 24 May 1970.
Photo taken by Ted McCormick
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