Sgt. Grit:
Talk about those 4 deuces got me thinking about the good old times in Vietnam in 1969. I’m attaching a couple of photo’s of the big mortars in action from my battery, Whiskey 3/11. Our battery was composed of 4.2 mortars and 155s so we could have a pretty good range of coverage.I was the FDO at the time and we were at LZ Baldy and built our site from scratch, scrounging everything we could from the Army. I was the FO with India Company 3/7 and later the LO.
Enjoy your newsletters and always look for a familiar name. Love to relive some of the old Corps memories from Quantico and Lejeune. Remember carrying my Olympus in my flack jacket on patrol and when a moment came up would snap off some great pictures but lost half of them when they were sent to be developed and never returned. I’ve got some decent ones and my wife put them in a photo book for me. Was in 3/7 from March thru July 1969 and Whiskey 3/11 thru January 1970.
Semper Fi,
Brian A Sekardi
Ist Lt, VN 69-70