Mr-Cob > ACAV's, moving through Michelin Rubber Plantation.
Mr-Cob > This is my 1998 Yamaha YZF-R1.  I was one of the first folks in my area to get one of these screamers, I honestly think the Blue 98 R1's, are the most beautiful Sport Bike ever made.  This bike even after all these years still scares me when I ride it, maybe that's why it's still in one piece and I am still alive.
Mr-Cob > Another view of the front bike carrier with Donna's TW-200.
Mr-Cob > This tank driver is for world peace, through superior fire power.
Mr-Cob > I, was a Soldier once, and young. photo
Mr-Cob > This is my friend Mike Alongi, displaying the "wall-paper" on the inside of his Track.  Mike was killed during the fight at Fire Base Rita, November 1st. 1968.
Mr-Cob > This is a still smoking bomb crater.
Mr-Cob > If you look very close, right in the middle of the photo, you can see lit napalm being fired from the flame gun of my Zippo ( Burning Sensation ).  I am burning out a bunker complex we came up against in the "Iron Triangle".  The napalm is forced out of the flame gun by compressed air.  The air is stored in tanks that sit on top of the tanks that hold the napalm, when you fire the flame gun you must first pressurize the napalm by opening a valve that allows the compressed air into the napalm tanks.  Once the napalm is pressurized the Track literally becomes a bomb, if it were to take a hit from something like an RPG, it would blow up leaving next to nothing behind.  When the Zippo's were doing there job everyone stayed well away from them.
Mr-Cob > Daily life in Vietnam was bad enough during the dry season.  When the monsoon rains came it was much worse.  The rain was cold and unending, it turned everything including most of the roads into slippery, slimey waist deep MUD.  This was taken at some Fire Base, during the monsoon season.  The Track in the far right side of the photo is being worked on, notice how the track is loose and not tight on the front drive sprocket.  It is having some type of maintenance preformed on it's drive system.  The only good thing about the monsoon season was that Armor couldn't operate in some of the areas we had to fight in during the dry season, however that didn't keep us out of the fight.
ACAV's, moving through Michelin Rubber Plantation.
Mr-Cob > ACAV's, moving through Michelin Rubber Plantation.
ACAV's, moving through Michelin Rubber Plantation.
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