Mr-Cob's Photos : Popular Photos : 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.

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Mr-Cob > Here I am sitting on top of the remains of B-32.

Mr-Cob > After the battle at Fire Base Rita, I sat in what was left of B-32.

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 > B-32, parked on-line at Phu Loi.

Mr-Cob > NVA killed as he got up to the side of B-32

Mr-Cob > Judging from the cover of the Playboy magazine I am reading, this should be late 1967 or early 1968. This was taken in front of my tent when we were working the area around the Base Camp at Lai Khe. Notice how we used the empty pallets that supplies came in on, the floor of the tent and my chair are old pallets. .

Mr-Cob > Here I am, just in-country June 20 something 1967. Notice the CLEAN new fatigues, shiny new M-16 and half full bottle of Jim Beam. Yes, when your 19 years old, half drunk and legally in possession of a fully automatic weapon with a license to kill you think your invincible. It didn't take long to lay those ideas to rest.

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.

Mr-Cob > In this photo you can see how when we were very lucky we had Infantry support. We would transport the "Grunts" to the battle where they would dismount and provide protection against any enemy that would get in-between the Tracked vehicles. There is a common mistake made about Infantry and Armor, most folks think that Armor protects the Infantry, actually, it's just the other way around. Armor supplies the fire power, Infantry keeps the enemy from getting in close to the Armor where the Armor can not defend itself. When ever we had to operate in the deep jungle or the rubber plantations without the Infantry we were sitting ducks and took many more casualties, here's to the Grunts.

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.