Vietnam and George Jones

[Two Flints]

Hello SSS,

Thought you'd like to hear and see this great tribute. Just click on the link


Two Flints back in 1969 with the 4th Infantry Division on Hill #25 close to the Cambodian Border just before we moved into the Cambodian Mountains.

                 
Two Flints today


SSS members and guests do you have photos from the Vietnam Conflict or Gulf War Conflict you would like to share?  If you do please post them in this thread, or Email them to me at fsgrand2@fairpoint.net  and I will post them for you.  Please describe the photo(s) - where taken, what year and any other information you might want to include.  My wife suggested a photo from back then in your military outfit AND NOW, in your cowboy outfit, just for comparison

Two Flints

[Deadeye Don]

What?   No Spencer?   

[Two Flints]

Photos sent to me by Email from Chain Breaker.

EOH2 W.H.LIPSCOMB - aka - CHAIN BREAKER
KHE SAHN, RVN - FALL 1967





Chain Breaker, thanks for the contribution

Two Flints

[Deadeye Don]

Much better Two Flints.  Thanks for adding the Spencer shot. 

[Harve Curry]

You sure look loaded down Two Flints. Thanks for sharing a great photo.

[Two Flints]

Harve,

We were all loaded down.  We received orders the night before to pack all of our personal gear; we were being transported by helicopter to somewhere on the Cambodian Mountains (shown way off in the distance from the bunker). Since we were told that we were coming back to Hill #25, I took my Keystone 3 turret 8mm movie camera, several books, and other personal items I had and wrapped them up in plastic and inside an ammo box and buried the ammo box inside my sand bag bunker for safe keeping.

Well we never went back to Hill #25, and I assume that my movie camera and books are still buried there!

Two Flints' Bunker Home   Hill #25 Central Highlands, Vietnam - near the Cambodian border



Two Flints

[Harve Curry]

Two Flints,
What is that horizontal line, looks like a wire or cable?

Harve, it's just a scratch in the photo...all my best photos are in Maine.  Two Flints

[Rancid Roy]

Two Flints you look as if you have "weathered" well.

Between my service in the Marines and now I can make two of me!!!

[panhead pete]

My Hats off to you Viet Nam Vets!!

I did a short tour in Iraq in 2005.  I was a flight engineer on C-130's.  We flew 22-23 missions in and out of Iraq.  The pic is on the tarmac at Baghdad International Airport.  The main reason I posted the pic is show my Mexican loop holster.  I made it for the Berreta 92-G.  I got a lot of smiles and "cool holster",  from a lot of guys.  There were no regs governing holsters so the regular AF folks couldn't say a word about my rig.  Plus it worked well wearing the flak vest.  It was a small part to contribute to the war, but I am glad I went. 


                                       Photo resized by T.F.

[Two Flints]

Panhead Pete,

Any side views of the holster Or any better views of it that you can show?

Two Flints

[panhead pete]

I will try sending this again. 


                                                              Photo resized by T.F.

I like Johnny Cash's "Drive On"!  A good Viet Nam Vet perspective.  I just turned 50 so I was right on the heels of the V-N War.


Best Regards,
Panhead

[Two Flints]

Panhead,

Thanks for the additional photo...looks good.  You made that?  If yes, any other samples of your work?

Two Flints

[panhead pete]

Howdy Again Two Flints,

I sent an email to your personal address.  I did not want to stray too far off topic.

Kind Regards,

Panhead

[Harve Curry]

Pretty nice holster Panhead Pete. Your carrying on a tradition with a holster like that, Gen. Patton would have tried to trade you out of it.

[panhead pete]

Thanks Harve!

I wanted to carry my Vaquero (Faux Ivory grips, stainless steel) over there, but going to Leavenworth for having an unauthorized firearm didn't seem worth it.  At least I was able to pack my iron cowboy style!!

Panhead