#1 Pat & Joe Barbosa

On the Apl 25Feb68. 26 days left in VietNam!

#2 Pat & Raymond Mimms

24Jan68 on the USS Appleton.

#3 Smith, Pat & SSgt Peter Gallegos.

Somewhere out in the bush.

#4 Pat & Ssgt Peter Gallegos

1Sept67 Rach Cat ( French Fort). The fort was by the river. I remember going in at night and taking sniper fire so we had to lay in the water for a hour or two with our buddy the leach.

#5 Juan, Pat, Anderton, Gaboril & Swank

Juan(RTO), Pat(teamleader), Anderton(rifleman), Fredrick Gaboril(machinegunner), and Ronald Swank(riflerman).

#6 Sgt Cooper

Shorttimer! Mr. Cooper!

#7 DongTam

July67. First tent on right was home.

#8 At the MRF reunion San Diego 1998

30+ years later! John Adame, Pat, Pete Gallegos.

#9

Lee Gambardella

#10

Romeo

#11

Pat, Vasquez(M79), Ramos & Barbosa.

#12

M60 crew. Velasques on left & Porter next to M60.

#13

Sgt Flag, Pat, Jones from B co(across from Pat),and Price(with 9th Div patch).

#14

RTO John Adame (Light My Fire)

#15

Pat`s platoon ready to go out with SSgt Vidal, Plt Sgt.

#16

Lee Gambedella taking a shower, Pat walking away.

#17

Getting the mud out!

LP (LISTENING POST)   One night we were suppose to go out and make contact with the 514th VC REGIMENT. They asked me to take out a LP. Well, John Adame was an RTO at that time so I picked him, Joe Magnum and they sent a new medic with us. I think he is in one of your pictures, any way we popped a VC 3 feet away from us . Hell of a way to bring in a new DOC, I am sure he will always remember that long night. I know all 4 of us do.

The Following Incident Took Place On A Sunday Around The 1st Of March 68 We were suppose to be on stand down but Aco, and Cco walked in to a big ambush. They took us into Dong Tam by boat and then choppered us in to help them. The LZ was horseshoe and they were waiting for us don`t know why they didn`t hit us coming off the choppers but they waited for us to land then they opened up on us. I remember crawling for about 75ft to get behind a rice paddy dike when I got there the shit really hit the fan.We couldnt fire back cause we didn`t want to hit any of our guys that were from A and Cco. Some of the wounded were calling out for their mothers. We were pinned down for about ten hours . The dinks got behind us so Captain Jenkins had to call in gunships on our NDP. Around 2am Captain Jenkins and 6 or 8 of us made a assault, the shooting had stopped and we waited for morning. As far as I can remember Eco didnt have any casutlies.But As far for A, Cco they were hit hard.

DOC,I hadn`t thought about it for a long time. Maybe I didn`t want to remember those young men calling for their mothers before they died and we couldn`t do a damn thing to try to help them because if we fired back we may have hit our own guys. I`m sure you were there, but I know there are somethings I don`t want to remember about that place.

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