Re: Another Photo


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Posted by Russ Roth on Monday, January 26, 2004 at 0:32AM :

In Reply to: Re: Another Photo posted by Jackson Reimund on Sunday, January 25, 2004 at 9:37PM :

Jackson,

Thanks for the info. I know about the 1/50th site of course and we have a link to 1/69th as we worked and fought battles with them. In fact the tanks in my pics are from 1/69th. I never checked the 1st FF site but I will follow up on your suggestion. After this many years the memory is hazy on many things of that time yet others stand as sharp as if they happened yesterday. Our former CO who used this RTO/FO did not know what outfit they were from. He told me last summer that most of them were not very good and he shippend them out pretty fast when they secrewed up. These guys must have been good since he was around a couple of months as I recall.

As far as being lucky, I believe it was much more than that. There was another medic helping me with him and we got left behind with this man on a litter during extraction. If it had not been for a decision by a buddy from my platoon to follow me when called to help this gravely wounded man the three of us would not have made it out that day. We were about 40-50 men and they were about 400 with more on the way. As we made the LZ a chinook came in and picked up half the guys and nearly fell out of the sky. Two guys were hit inside of it after it was airborne. The rest of us bailed out on hueys (man, do I LOVE those machines!)and ALL of them took hits and were leaking fuel. They were so heavy we could barely clear the brush until we got out over the China sea. That was one harrowing day for all us.

Welcome home to you also.

RR



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