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Striker

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Posted: 3/30/2012 4:07:08 PM EDT

[Last Edit: GoatBoy]

As many of you may remember, we had photo albums here with pics for Vietnam Vets, Korean Vets, Gulf War I, II.
Unfortunately those albums were lost in a server crash.

Well..I'm please to say we are going to do it again.
I have the honor of posting pics from Edsr.

Ft Bragg, before shipping over. 1st generation Starlight scope with illumination lamp

Division sniper school, early 1967 Ft Bragg

Near Phu Bai, evening before going out to check something out near Hue early next morning

There is more but I'll start with these and you guys can bug Ed to narrate them.
ETA..I set the album up so anyone can add photo's. It's here. http://www.ar15.com/media/album.html?aid=1749

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dizkoboro TacticalMember Joined Jul 2005 Posts 7646 EE 99% (227) SPM	Posted: 3/30/2012 4:08:34 PM EDT [Last Edit: dizkoboro] [#1] First. My dad has an amazing collection. His LT was Leon "Red Bone" I will post some of his. He has well over 1000 to 1500 great pictures.
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MyName1sMud Member Joined Feb 2012 Posts 517 EE 100% (1) MS, USA	Posted: 3/30/2012 4:09:01 PM EDT [#2] Great idea. I'll see if my father is okay with me posting his pictures from Nam.
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dizkoboro TacticalMember Joined Jul 2005 Posts 7647 EE 99% (227) SPM	Posted: 3/30/2012 4:09:45 PM EDT [#3] Is that a Starlight scope?
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TDCJBoss

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Posted: 3/30/2012 4:10:22 PM EDT

[#4]

Originally Posted By Striker:
As many of you may remember, we had photo albums here with pics for Vietnam Vets, Korean Vets, Gulf War I, II.
Unfortunately those albums were lost in a server crash.

Well..I'm please to say we are going to do it again.
I have the honor of posting pics from Edsr.

http://www.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=38475

http://www.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=38506

http://www.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=38488

There is more but I'll start with these and you guys can bug Ed to narrate them.

Canadian in the service of the US?

Yes,I know it was done. My hat off to that man.

Born in the game, that's all I am, givin' all my duckets to uncle sam.

9mmRandy Sick & Tired Joined Mar 2011 Posts 3272 EE 100% (155) PA, USA	Posted: 3/30/2012 4:10:49 PM EDT [#5] Must it be 'nam
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AKSig I AM THE C.L.I.T. COMMANDER! Joined Nov 2007 Posts 15398 EE 0% (0) PA, USA	Posted: 3/30/2012 4:15:55 PM EDT [#7] Tag.

MossyOakMan Member Joined Apr 2007 Posts 2816 EE 100% (39) TN, USA	Posted: 3/30/2012 4:16:34 PM EDT [#8] Great thread! I wish I had more pics of when I was in the Army.

ambalamps Member Joined Dec 2011 Posts 1157 EE 0% (0) MI, USA	Posted: 3/30/2012 4:18:50 PM EDT [#9] Tag

badfish274

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Posted: 3/30/2012 4:20:16 PM EDT

[#10]

Originally Posted By TDCJBoss:

Originally Posted By Striker:
As many of you may remember, we had photo albums here with pics for Vietnam Vets, Korean Vets, Gulf War I, II.
Unfortunately those albums were lost in a server crash.

Well..I'm please to say we are going to do it again.
I have the honor of posting pics from Edsr.

http://www.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=38475

http://www.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=38506

http://www.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=38488

There is more but I'll start with these and you guys can bug Ed to narrate them.

Canadian in the service of the US?

Yes,I know it was done. My hat off to that man.

Oy. FNGs.

macro Bitter Pennsylvanian clinging to his guns Joined Apr 2003 Posts 15927 EE 100% (34) USA	Posted: 3/30/2012 4:21:39 PM EDT [#11] Great thread idea Striker I need to see if I have a pic of my uncle (helicoptor mechanic) OST
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Aimless

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Posted: 3/30/2012 4:21:53 PM EDT

[#12]

Originally Posted By TDCJBoss:

Originally Posted By Striker:

As many of you may remember, we had photo albums here with pics for Vietnam Vets, Korean Vets, Gulf War I, II.

Unfortunately those albums were lost in a server crash.

Well..I'm please to say we are going to do it again.

I have the honor of posting pics from Edsr.

http://www.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=38475

http://www.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=38506

http://www.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=38488

There is more but I'll start with these and you guys can bug Ed to narrate them.

Canadian in the service of the US?

Yes,I know it was done. My hat off to that man.

That's Ed Avila Sr, not milkbags

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jnk556 Modern Day Hillbilly! Joined Nov 2006 Posts 8955 EE 100% (29) WV, USA	Posted: 3/30/2012 4:22:10 PM EDT [#13] I have my dads albums from Vietnam, I've not scanned them into digital form yet though. As soon as I get a new non-acid album, me and my dad are going to go through them and scan them and put them in a new album.....
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cyclone Member Joined Jul 2003 Posts 16874 EE 100% (81) GA, USA	Posted: 3/30/2012 4:23:01 PM EDT [Last Edit: cyclone] [#14] My father was in right before Vietnam...........I might have some pics of him posing with his M1 Garand
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Striker Arfcom's foreign office. Joined Nov 2000 Posts 42350 EE 100% (1) CAN	Posted: 3/30/2012 4:40:44 PM EDT [#15] Please keep any pics posted ones from Vietnam. I can set up albums for Korea, Gulf War, Iraq, Afghanistan, WW-I, WW-II.
	Posted By BeautifulStranger I'm a little late to the party but you can pump and dump if you want to shoot Posted By Bed_Head And yes, all women know the power of the boobies.... and the pie too.

Cromlech I like big Pies and I cannot lie. Joined Mar 2010 Posts 10794 EE 0% (0) GBR	Posted: 3/30/2012 4:42:09 PM EDT [#16] Originally Posted By Aimless: That's Ed Avila Sr, not milkbags In the first picture, I can really tell it's him. Just photoshop a beard onto him, and he's pulling the same kind of 'IMA GON KILL YOU' face that he was when snapped at a recent (Shot?) show.
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cda97 Member Joined Feb 2007 Posts 5389 EE 100% (225) GA, USA	Posted: 3/30/2012 4:47:35 PM EDT [#17] I posted my Dad's pics from Vietnam a few months ago. Here's a few, The first is my Dad who served with 1/7 FA 1ID from 65-66 around Bien Hoa, Siagon and Cam Rahn Bay.
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Evil_Ed

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Posted: 3/30/2012 4:49:15 PM EDT

[#18]

Originally Posted By Striker:
As many of you may remember, we had photo albums here with pics for Vietnam Vets, Korean Vets, Gulf War I, II.
Unfortunately those albums were lost in a server crash.

Well..I'm please to say we are going to do it again.
I have the honor of posting pics from Edsr.

http://www.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=38475

http://www.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=38506

http://www.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=38488

There is more but I'll start with these and you guys can bug Ed to narrate them.
ETA..I set the album up so anyone can add photo's. It's here. http://www.ar15.com/member/profileMyMedia.html?aid=1749&pg=1&apg=1

Thank you!

I'd re-up your membership, but uh...

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Assault-Rifle-City Happiness is a Belt Fed Weapon Joined Jan 2008 Posts 7574 EE 100% (7) KY, USA	Posted: 3/30/2012 4:50:28 PM EDT [#19] I have some pics that I saved from the BRO facebook page. I'll post em up here a little later. Vietnam Vets: It doesn't get said nearly enough, THANK YOU.
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Skg_Mre_Lght Expatriated Southerner Joined Sep 2006 Posts 6781 EE 100% (14) WY, USA	Posted: 3/30/2012 4:51:45 PM EDT [#20] Place holder...I will be going home in July, and will dig up pics of my Uncle. 82nd Airborne Division (Not sure of Regiment, etc.)...Four Bronze Stars, two with the "V" device. Give me a few months, gentlemen.
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72coupe Member Joined Sep 2006 Posts 879 EE 0% (0) TX, USA	Posted: 3/30/2012 5:05:11 PM EDT [Last Edit: 72coupe] [#22] Me making a goofy face.

dirtyone04

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Posted: 3/30/2012 5:33:23 PM EDT

[#23]

Man, that second pic is frighting. Not a lot of distance from the MG position to the brush. I don't know if that grenade is for the enemy, or personal use if the position gets over run.
Thank you for sharing.

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ambalamps

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Posted: 3/30/2012 5:40:42 PM EDT

[#24]

Originally Posted By dirtyone04:

Man, that second pic is frighting. Not a lot of distance from the MG position to the brush. I don't know if that grenade is for the enemy, or personal use if the position gets over run.
Thank you for sharing.

I thought the same thing. From what ive read thats how alot of the fighting was.

Striker

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Posted: 3/30/2012 5:56:03 PM EDT

[Last Edit: EdAvilaSr] [#25]

For those that don't know..Edsr served with a LRRP unit..he explained what the pics represent when he e-mailed them to me. I have a lot of respect for any one that wears a uniform for their country and fights the good fight...but for those high speed folks that can't wait to do what a sane person wouldn't..they have my utmost respect.
Here are some more of Ed's pics.
This one is of Ed taking the sniper course.

1st week there,setting up our deluxe accommodations outside the perimeter in Chu Lai

Rice paddy,In transit to orientation week

Next 2 pictures are my good buddy Tom Dinweedie (from CA) and EdSr, building our home for the next week (while getting our in country orientation)

Posted By BeautifulStranger
I'm a little late to the party but you can pump and dump if you want to shoot
Posted By Bed_Head
And yes, all women know the power of the boobies.... and the pie too.

TacticalMOLONLABE Now is the End of Days, and I am the Reaper! Joined Nov 2008 Posts 21477 EE 0% (0) CT, USA	Posted: 3/30/2012 6:00:29 PM EDT [Last Edit: TacticalMOLONLABE] [#26] Originally Posted By Striker: Please keep any pics posted ones from Vietnam. I can set up albums for Korea, Gulf War, Iraq, Afghanistan, WW-I, WW-II. If you go go back in my post history you will find a bunch from WW1, WW2, Korea I will search for some Vietnam photos and post thm ITT later
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Beamy USAF acft fixer, Penna boy living in Nodak Land Joined Dec 2007 Posts 7036 EE 100% (7) ND, USA	Posted: 3/30/2012 6:01:53 PM EDT [#27] awesome thread to the guys who were over there, Thanks
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CrazedCat Member Joined Jul 2009 Posts 1179 EE 100% (1) NC, USA	Posted: 3/30/2012 6:10:09 PM EDT [#28]

Striker

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Posted: 3/30/2012 6:23:14 PM EDT

[#29]

Originally Posted By TacticalMOLONLABE:

Originally Posted By Striker:

Please keep any pics posted ones from Vietnam.

I can set up albums for Korea, Gulf War, Iraq, Afghanistan, WW-I, WW-II.

If you go go back in my post history you will find a bunch from WW1, WW2, Korea

I will search for some Vietnam photos and post thm ITT later

I have waaaaaay to much to do here.

Posted By BeautifulStranger
I'm a little late to the party but you can pump and dump if you want to shoot
Posted By Bed_Head
And yes, all women know the power of the boobies.... and the pie too.

Snake_driver Member Joined Sep 2009 Posts 1769 EE 100% (1) FL, USA	Posted: 3/30/2012 6:23:38 PM EDT [#30] Great thread. Ed Sr., you're my hero! Me in Vietnam 1972:

TacticalMOLONLABE

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Posted: 3/30/2012 6:24:44 PM EDT

[#31]

Originally Posted By Striker:

Originally Posted By TacticalMOLONLABE:

Originally Posted By Striker:

Please keep any pics posted ones from Vietnam.

I can set up albums for Korea, Gulf War, Iraq, Afghanistan, WW-I, WW-II.

If you go go back in my post history you will find a bunch from WW1, WW2, Korea

I will search for some Vietnam photos and post thm ITT later

I have waaaaaay to much to do here.

I will find th links and post them

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Who is Nathan Poe?

AMG08 Member Joined Jan 2008 Posts 1184 EE 100% (30) NC, USA	Posted: 3/30/2012 6:30:29 PM EDT [#32] tag. love seeing these pics

Makarov92 Just some random Catholic kid... Joined Apr 2010 Posts 1922 EE 0% (0) VA, USA	Posted: 3/30/2012 6:32:31 PM EDT [#33] Originally Posted By AMG08: tag. love seeing these pics
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Posted: 3/30/2012 7:03:49 PM EDT

[Last Edit: 12a10] [#34]

Originally Posted By Skg_Mre_Lght:
Place holder...I will be going home in July, and will dig up pics of my Uncle.

82nd Airborne Division (Not sure of Regiment, etc.)...Four Bronze Stars, two with the "V" device.

Give me a few months, gentlemen.

He was probaby in the 505th. I think that was the only refgiment from the 82nd that went to Viet Nam

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hobbsar Member Joined Feb 2008 Posts 8490 EE 0% (0) NM, USA	Posted: 3/30/2012 7:29:04 PM EDT [#36] It looks like pretty country if there hadn't been a war going on.
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ArmyInfantryVet Member Joined Nov 2005 Posts 35277 EE 100% (4) PA, USA	Posted: 3/30/2012 7:32:15 PM EDT [#37] Got tons of respect for the Grunts in Vietnam. Walking through the dense jungle and an ambush could really happen in any direction. Fuck that.

RafterMan Joined Jan 2006 Posts 1049 EE 0% (0) SD, USA	Posted: 3/30/2012 7:35:31 PM EDT [#38] Originally Posted By Snake_driver: Great thread. Ed Sr., you're my hero! Me in Vietnam 1972: http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/bb324/Snake_driver/Blue_Max11.jpg http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/bb324/Snake_driver/Snake_driver_03.jpg Awesome pics. I love the Cobra

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Posted: 3/30/2012 7:36:59 PM EDT

[Last Edit: 6gunfighter2] [#39]

I salute Ed Sr. and all of our other Vietnam veterans.

There are many on the left who say that the Vietnam War was a tragic "waste."

THEY ARE WRONG.

The fact is, by demonstrating our resolve to stand firm to defend foreign lands from communist aggression in the 1960s, we may very well have prevented the Soviets from attempting to invade western Europe.

While that can never be conclusively proven, I submit to you that it can never be conclusively disproven either.

"Theirs WAS a noble cause."

- Ronald Wilson Reagan, on the veterans of the Vietnam War.

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Bones45 Amalgamated Joined Mar 2010 Posts 4337 EE 0% (0) USA	Posted: 3/30/2012 7:45:47 PM EDT [#40] Didn't know Ed was a LRRP. Hope to see more pics. Thanks to all for your service in a thankless war.
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Spartacus Member Joined Nov 2000 Posts 222 EE 0% (0) AZ, USA	Posted: 3/30/2012 7:46:39 PM EDT [#41] Here's some from my Dad's time in Vietnam These are from his tour at Danang in '70. He was also at Chu Lai in '65-'66
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583 Member, 1 ea. Joined Nov 2007 Posts 14938 EE 100% (6) OH, USA	Posted: 3/30/2012 7:53:00 PM EDT [#42] A tip of the hat to Osprey 21, Flash 66, Three Feathers, Lumpy 03, Ed Sr., Hoppy and the rest of you guys.
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Treadhead

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Posted: 3/30/2012 7:53:51 PM EDT

[#43]

I can't even begin to imagine how rough it must've been on the youngsters.

18-19yr olds straight out of the Donna Reed show thrown into a jungle to fight a (REAL) tier 1 infantry force with decades of live-fire experience

on their own ground.

God bless 'em. The treatment they got (And DIDN'T GET!) at the hands of the American left in the 60's and 70's is a national disgrace.

cda97 Member Joined Feb 2007 Posts 5390 EE 100% (225) GA, USA	Posted: 3/30/2012 9:15:10 PM EDT [#44]
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Coltcrazy Ever thus to Deadbeats, Lebowski Joined Mar 2010 Posts 2530 EE 0% (0) USA	Posted: 3/30/2012 9:19:22 PM EDT [Last Edit: Coltcrazy] [#45] Tag. ETA: What an awesome thread. Sincere thanks to all who served or are posting family pics.
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cda97 Member Joined Feb 2007 Posts 5391 EE 100% (225) GA, USA	Posted: 3/30/2012 9:22:16 PM EDT [#46]
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cda97 Member Joined Feb 2007 Posts 5392 EE 100% (225) GA, USA	Posted: 3/30/2012 9:29:33 PM EDT [#47]
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cda97 Member Joined Feb 2007 Posts 5393 EE 100% (225) GA, USA	Posted: 3/30/2012 9:37:26 PM EDT [#48]
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cda97 Member Joined Feb 2007 Posts 5394 EE 100% (225) GA, USA	Posted: 3/30/2012 9:44:00 PM EDT [#49]
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