Robert thinks this picture was taken from a hilltop near LZ Snoopy and overlooking Highway 1. The 2nd Platoon spent the mornings clearing the “redball”, the afternoons swimming in the South China Sea (with security) and the evenings setting up ambushes.

This is a resupply chopper.

Here are Keith Arent and Robert (Bob) Heilig. Bob was killed in an ambush on October 16, 1969.

From left to right, here are Joseph (Joe) Holmes, (Unknown) Pardee, Bob Hartman, and an Unknown in the foreground during a brief moment of levity somewhere in the mountains west of FSB Hill 4-11. Joe Holmes was also killed in the ambush that occurred on October 16, 1969.

This is Benny Young, RTO extraordinaire.

This is one of the Cobra gunships that was based in Chu Lai.

Unknown and Bob Hartman. This was definitely the 60’s!

From left to right, Joe Valdez, an Unknown, David Whaley, and Dinkle at the NCO club during a standown at Chu Lai. Everybody was wearing one of Robert’s shirts so they could get in the picture. Robert thinks his name tag was on all the shirts.

Never trust your “pals” when you’re in the bag during a standown. All Robert can remember clearly about standown was there was only one (thank God), and they were “locked down” in a compound at Chu Lai for about a week with all the beer they could drink. The MP’s guarded the entrance, and they had to sign in and out to get to the main base at Chu Lai. Real segregation for the “field rats”!