![](mole6_sm.jpg) This is where Tom and his ammo Crew spent a lot of their Vietnam Time. |
![](mole14_sm.jpg) This is pretty clear for an aerial shot. Mole City. |
![](so15_sm.jpg) The Ceremony at Mole City. Half of Ammo getting ARCOM, Tom Bronze-Star.
(This is a correction. Originally, I thought the Arcoms and Tom's Bronze were with the V for valor. Having read Tom's Citation, I believe they in fact SHOULD have been. Tom and his crew braved MORTAR and Rocket fire to fulfill that mission and supply 110 tons of urgently needed ammo to Dau-Tieng Base due to increased enemey activity in that area. So, in my opinion, this is yet another example of Army SNAFU.) --'nuff said.
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![](TrangBang_sm.jpg) USO Show, Trang Bang. 4 July, '68. By the way, this and the Pool at DT are the only photos that are NOT at Mole City, so far. |
![](ammosection-2_sm.jpg) Ammo Section & 2 other Guys At FSB WOOD 1. Clockwise from Tom, top left; Peter Noel, I think from Conn.; Johnson, from CA; the BC's driver, who's name Tom doesn't recall; John Otero, believed from NM; Calp, who's home Tom doesn't recall; and Smith (Smitty) from the Maintenance section. |
![](1_sm.jpg) FSB MCNair. FSB McNair- L-R Lambert, unknown, Smitty with Brent Gayler's flak jacket after a mortar attack. Happily, Brent was NOT in it! |
![](3dbdepool-dt-sm.png) I'm not sure when in '68 this was. It was when I was there the 3RD BDE, 25 INF DIV. POOL. Much of 2/77 Moved to Cu-Chi some time in '68. And yes, It did have a playboy insignia at the bottom. That's Tom at the Pool. I made 2 Dives, and our 67 -68 Focus crew had a heck of a time at that pool only once. |
![](airmobile-ammo-tayninh-sm.jpg) Had to lift a LOT of ammo to the Battery at DT from Tay Ninh. This is how it was done when road transport was not feasible or too slow. |
![](best-pokerplayr-nam-and-tom-sm.jpg) This is Tom and the best poker player in 'Nam killin time with a couple of hands. |
![](bootiful-kids-tayninh-sm.jpg) Some beautiful kids tay ninh area. |
![](bunkers-tayninh-area-sm.jpg) Some bunkers in the Tay Ninh area |
![](chinook-goin-up-tayninh-sm.jpg) Another load goin up under a chinook |
![](convoy-near-tayninh-sm.jpg) B Battery in convoy near Tay Ninh. Looking forward towards gun 4 |
![](fsbhull1-sm.jpg) An Airstrike between FSB WOOD II AND NUI BHA DHEN. |
![](fsbhull2-sm.jpg) FSB Hull and shows R-L standing, Firing Battery Chief MSG Johnson, Otero, Noel, PFC Johnson (no relation), and Calp, fixing a flat tire. |
![](fsbwood-sm.jpg) FSB Wood II also. Same air strike |
![](fsb-wood2-sm.jpg) Bunker at FSB WoodII. |
![](god-i-hated-that-job-sm.jpg) This is a pic of TayNinh, and was apparently during the Emergency Re-Supply of DT Base. I really HATED hookin 'em up. Wonder if anyone else did? |
![](insert-fusedround-here-sm.jpg) Put that big bullet in the hole |
![](johnson-and-flores-sm.jpg) Johnson and Flores at FSB Danford |
![](snugglin-up-chinook-sm.jpg) Takin a 'lean up' break against a Chinook. |
![](standup-hookup-jumpoff-run-sm.jpg) Stand up, - Hook up, Jump off - and RUN |
![](tayninh1-sm.jpg) mess hall at Tay Ninh that took a direct hit from a 122 mm rocket (no casualties).
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![](the-brute-sm.jpg) What Field Artillery is about |
![](tom-3bdepool-dt-sm.jpg) Tom at the pool. Plain-tee good fun |
![](tom-fsb-sm.jpg) Tom at a FSB Beside a VC skull on a post on the perimeter wire at Mole City |
![](tom-garlandglaze-gainesville-ga-sm.jpg) Tom and Garland Glaze from Gainesville Georgia. At Tay Ninh, though not ACTUALLY. Fsbs were named for the city, village, or Creek they were nearest to. I.E. TayNinh. |
![](tom-gettin-field-strac-sm.jpg) Tom gettin "strac" in the field. At FSB Danford |
![](tom-hootch-dt-sm.jpg) Tom by a hootch at DT |
![](tom-hootch-dt2-sm.jpg) Tom by hootch again. |
![](tom-nam-sm.jpg) Another shot of Tom in 'Nam. a village close to Mole City |
![](toms-not-so-sweet-home-sm.jpg) Tom's not - so - sweet home at FSB Hull.
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![](tom-thumper-dt-sm.jpg) Tom with his "Thumper" At DT Base. Or so we of earlier years called it. |
![](tom-thumper-ready-sm.jpg) Tom and "Thumper" are ready for anything. At an FSB very near Tay Ninh |
![](viet-funeral-sm.jpg) A Vietnamese Funeral near FSB Hull. |
![](bbattery-greenshowr-sm.jpg) This is Tom and the Ammo Crew's Solar heated shower. At Fsb Danford. The lump under neath the plastic is the section M-60 MG. Vietnam Troops went "Green" before it was in 'fashion' |
![](bectel-l-convoy-tayninh-trangbang-withbrute-sm.jpg) Bectel on the left convoy from Tay Ninh to Trang Bang, towing the gun Brute |
![](dtncoclub-xmaspartygirl-sm.jpg) Some of the NCO Club Xmas Party entertainment |
![](dtxmas-partygirl-sm.jpg) Just a different position. FSB WOOD I. |
![](dtxmas-singrgirl2-sm.jpg) Another Singer Girl |
![](xmasparty-singergirl-sm.jpg) More of the entertainment |
![](tom-atdanford-sm.jpg) Tom at FSB Danford |
Tom at FSB Wood |
![](brentgaylorDTNCOXMASPARTY-sm.jpg) This is Tom's Buddy Brent Gayler at the DT NCO Christmas party. Lower right corner. Sorry it was previously mis-spelled |
![](McNAIR-oopsie-sm.jpg) This is Tom with his foot in the hole an 81mm Mortar fired from an 82mm VC/NVA tube in the bed of one of his section's trucks. |
![](VNTombo-sm.jpg) BEFORE there was Rambo, there was TOMBO. |
![](MoleCitytower-sm.png) A Great shot of the "Mole City" Guard/Counter-Mortar Tower |