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Unit 3347
3rd Replacement Division
Staging Battalion
Las Pulgas and Mainside
Camp Pendleton California
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Me in the quonset hut at Las Pulgas. Las Pulgas was a training camp within Camp Pendleton. We were in staging battalion, getting ready to go to 'Nam. Staging was the last minute, before we go to Vietnam, training. Kind of a crash course in everything we learned about war throughout our training. Each staging unit consisted of everyone from different MOS's (Millitary Occupational Specialties) going to Vietnam at a particular time.
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Me on weekend liberty at Steve Tabb's Aunt's house after a bout with a bottle of gin and bottles of Squirt.
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Me, Steve Tabb, Steve's cousin Herb and son little Steve, at their (Steve's Aunt's) home in La Puente CA. Steve and I used to go there on our weekend liberties. I met Steve the first day of boot camp and we went all the way through training, up to 'Nam together. Steve and I got to be good friends due to the alphabet. When we lined up in boot camp, it was always in alphabetical order - "......Tabb, Teer, Toenges...." Steve was tall, too and Phil Teer was short. When we would be in line waiting for shots or something, Steve and I could talk eye to eye while poor Phil was down below.
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Me in the barracks at Mainside in Camp Pendelton. We had finished our grunt training at Las Pulgas and were just a couple days away from leaving for 'Nam.
April 17, 1969 |
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Me at Mainside.
April 17, 1969 |
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Me & Steve Tabb in Barracks at Mainside. Steve was from Plains, Kansas.
April 17, 1969 |
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Paul Pratt in the barracks at Mainside.
April 17, '69 |
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Steve Tabb in Mainside Barracks
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Yes.... Me at Mainside Barracks again.
April 17, 1969 |
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Me at Mainside again.
There's a story behind this pic. In a picture that I have of my dad in World War II, he is standing on the deck of his ship, flipping the double bone.
So.... like father, like son.........
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