Same operation.  Whoever was behind us on the APC (VN MBT) was picture happy.

On a search and destroy operation somewhere southwest of Da Nang

Lt. Lao looking for something inside his M113 APC

APCs in the troop were on perimeter duty all the time with partial crews.

Lt. Lao and Staff Sergeant Straughn

MACV compound in Quang Tri

At Hoi An, Vietnam compound in 1966

THEN

NOW

John Wilkinson

Tunnel to bunker under house.

Staff Sergeant Straughn

Coming into a hamlet in the middle of Charley country.  First time the village chief has seen government troops in a long time.

Vietnamese troops getting ready for some kind of ceremony.

Vietnam Veterans of America

The Way We Were

SFC Current

Viet Cong controlled country.

John and Lt. Lao

.30s are bad enough, glad they're not .50s

Propoganda message in the boonies.

Vietnamese troops.

Lt.Lao, CO 2nd of 4th VN Cavalry

Vietnam awards ceremony. John's counterpart front and center.

Off to pay officer duty inGermany.

Gary Hutchison Memorial Chapter 1028

It's been decades since we served. But to many of us, it seems like only yesterday.  Today we are old and slow; but once we were young and swift.  For those who never knew us then; and for those who can't remember when, take a look back at​  the way we were: