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The "secret" to all my old pics is that they were all taken with my old Minolta SRT101, an old film SLR camera shooting both Kodachrome and Ectachrome slide film. I take the slides and scan them in my dedicated Epson 4990 slide scanner and convert them to digital format that I can post, send email, etc.
When we were deployed to SE Asia/RVN, I sent my film via FPO to the Kodak processing lab and got them back a couple of weeks later at mail call. I'm sitting on about 2,000 color slides from my time over there.
Talking about 'big stuff', here's shots taken on beaches we landed both Armored Cav units and Marines on in RVN building up for the Vietmanese Offensive that year.
Not everything was 'combat related'. Troops must have hootch building material, and some fun too.....
If you've ever wondered how all that heavy armor got onto the beaches and into the bush there, here's the answer:
Our mothership, USS Tulare (AKA-112). Amphibious Attack, and my home for four years. It was determined we had the best chow in our squadron, Amphibious Squadron 3 (PHIBRON 3). Here we're tied up at a jungle pier on a river I can't remember the name of now. I do remember though, that there was a neat little bar at the end of that pier that had (amazingly) ice-cold San Miguel beer:
The pics may appear 'fresh' even though it all happened a long time ago, but some of those memories seem like they happened last month to me and others that experienced it. Thanks for the encouraging comments; most appreciated.