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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Route 9 runs from Dong Ha, thru Quang Tri City up to Khe Sanh. Truck conveys would use Route 9 taking supplies to troops located along the road. Every morning the road would be checked by the engineers for mines and booby traps. At times it would be our turn tp provide security for the engineers on the road against ambushes set up by the VC.
