Photo Of ??, Routh, Talton and Parsons

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I remember taking this photo of some of our boys drying out their clothing after we had to cross a body of water on a single rope stretched across above the water. I remember that it was in the balancing act. You had to stay above the rope while you let one leg dangle down and the other leg bent @ the knees with your foot across the top of the rope. You had pull yourself with your hands thus sliding across the rope. This photo was made near Vancouver, Washington sometime during our Basic Unit Combat Training.

Photo Of Me Routh and Wray

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This photo was taken in front of the NCO Club in Fort Lewis, Washington in early 1966. Boy did those civilian clothes feel good! It was a week-end pass on the base after our Basic Training. You know this photo brings back old memories. I remember them having a talent show that day. I remember the band that won sung the song Louie-Louie which was put out by the Kingsmen in 1963.

I know you have heard the term "An Ear Worm", which means you cant get a melody out of your head. I have an Ear Worm that is still in my head since that day in 1966. "LOUIE LOUIE, OH BABY, ME GOTTA GO"--"LOUIE LOUIE, OH BABY, ME GOTTO GO"

Photo Of Our Old Battalion Sign In Fort Lewis, Washington

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I took this photo of our old Battalion Sign in Fort Lewis, Washington in 1966 before we shipped out for the RVN. LTCOL Pat W. Crizer was our Battalion Commander from December 1965 - December 1966. He went to the RVN with us and was replaced by LTC Tom "Charger"Lynch in Dec. of 1966. "Charger was replaced by LTC Glen Belnap in early December of 1967.

I still remember LTC Crizer taking an interest in we boys from Scott County and Lee County, Virginia since he was from Wise County, Virginia. I remember him coming to our rifle qualifying and giving us a pep talk to not let him down.

LTC Belnap was killed-in-action along with his SGM Herbert Roberts. They died instantly in a Huey Helicopter crash along with the crew of the chopper on 12/20/67. I believe that if I can get my story straight the Chopper that they were in was Hovering above the trees and all of a sudden its tail Rotor got into the trees thus causing the chopper to crash.

Photo of Cpt.Tony Colburn (THE ROYAL PINEAPPLE)

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This is a rare photo (sorry for it's quality) of our company commander Cpt. Tony Colburn (Nickname The Pinapple) picking & grinning for us. The date was ?? maybe May of 1966, place was Vancouver, Wa. while we were on maneuvers. I suppose that it was times like these that molded us into a fine tuned fighting machine. I know only a percentage of the total # of troops were as fortunate as we were. We trained together for 8 months before we all loaded up on the same ship for our trip to the RVN.

Getting Ready To Be Inspected Before We Went On Guard Duty

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Do you Remember this old photo? Me & Dudley are the only names that I can remember! I do remember that this photo was made in front of our Barracks in Fort Lewis, Washington and the date was sometime early in 1966 as we were getting ready for inspection before our guard duty. I welcome all comments with the names of the others.

Front L to R: Me, Dudley, ?Parsons? & ?Calicutt?
Back L to R: ?Stein?, ????, ?Teal?, ?Bromell?