Photograph of SSG (Staff Sergeant) Larry Shirk and SP4 (The rank of SP4 once denoted the fourth grade of the specialist rank in the U.S. Army. The term was abandoned in favor of "SPC," the only specialist rank, and is roughly equivalent to the rank of corporal.) James Fisher. Photo courtesy of William Carr Jr.
Sergeant Richard Creek of 102 Field Battery inspects the damage inflicted on the Battery’s Command Post by North Vietnamese mortars during an attack in the early hours of 13 May 1968.
Photo taken age 20 after two tours Vietnam, taken in D.C. while assigned at Marine Barracks 8th and I HQ. Other units India 3/3/3 - HQ Regiment 3/26 - G-1 1st MarDiv - S-1 3/5 and last unit was S-1 1/1/1. Sergeant Rex C. McBee Oct 67 to July 72. Photo by Rex C. McBee.
Soldiers With Their Civet Cat And A Mortar Parachute
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Cai Cai 1966. Richard H. Dick James standing 2nd from left. "We had just made our civet cat airborne qualified, using a mortar parachute off the observation tower. Sergeant First Class Allard, Staff Sergeant Conard, Sergeant Richard "Dick" James and Staff Sergeant Passmore. We got a group of four A-teams together, made a night jump at Bragg, and each team hiked to a target. We hiked (during the nighttime) to the Bragg Ammo Dump. Arrived before dawn, and reconnoitered the site. In the early dawn we cut our way through the fence/barbed wire, and snuck onto the grounds of the ammo dump. We then placed signs on each bunker, saying 'destroyed by Detachment A-42, Company D, 7th Special Forces Group.' The other three teams did the same at the base water supply and power supply, as well as the aircraft on Pope Air Force Base. The Ft. Bragg commanding general was livid, and chewed out everybody involved. It was a 'blast.' None of the teams were ever spotted." — with Richard H. Dick James. Photo by Richard H. Dick James.
North English Squad, November 1969, Min Gate. (R-L) Sp/4 Jerry R. Doyle; ARVN Sergeant Long, was KIA in July of 1970; PFC Jerry W. Colwell; Sp/4 Paul Hurst; Houseboy Sergeant Bell; Sp/4 Jon Herron; Sp/4 Terry Smith; Military Police, HHC, Attached to the Support Battalion, 173d Abn Bde. Photo by Jerry W. Colwell.
Team A-412, Cai Cai, Vietnam (1966). Captain Leo M. Donker (bottom left) was KIA (killed in action). Richard H. Dick James (top center, 3rd from left standing).Master Sergeant Kerr (far left), Sergeant First Class Johnson, Sergeant First Class Noakes (middle), Staff Sergeant Anderson (bottom right), Sergeant Johnson (top center, right) Staff Sergeant Conard and Lieutenant Gerald Doht (far right).
