2nd Battalion 9th Marines
When I got to Vietnam I was assigned to Fox Company, 2nd Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division. We were stationed in the Northern I Corp, up by the DMZ just down from where Khe Sanh use to be, at Vandegrift Combat Base, LZ Stud. Being a grunt there was some difficulty taking pictures and getting the film processed in a timely manner, many rolls never got processed and those that did may have spent a month or better in my back pack in hot and humid weather. Those that did survive were not of the best quality and after fifty years in albums did sustain some damage, which I was able to fix somewhat.
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We ran patrols down in the valley during the day as the rest of the guys and engineers worked on the base. Taking a break holding a M72 LAW, a portable one shot 66-mm unguided rocket weapon, and my M-16. After firing the LAW, the tube would be smashed and disposed of. Many of the guys in the platoon would be given a LAW in addition with their weapons.
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