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Crew Chief Don Rymer687 viewsMilo (Mike) Schlaudraff Photo

Crew Chief Don Rymer getting a ride back to base after he went down.
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Golf Course An Khe672 viewsTom Johnson Photo

A/227 parking area on the golf course at An Khe
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A/227 Company Area at LZ Oasis667 viewsJohn Keller Photo

A/227 Company Area at LZ Oasis, December 1966
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C-130 landing at An Khe667 viewsEd Lemp Photo: "E" Btry (Avn) 82nd Arty
C-130 lands at the Golf Course, Hon Cong mountain with Cav patch on it in background

With permission from Ed Lemp
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Chuck Stevens & Mike Schlaudraff667 viewsMilo (Mike) Schlaudraff Photo

Crew Chiefs Chuck Stevens and Mike Schlaudraff taking a break in #964.
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1LT Robert Wright665 viewsJohn Keller Photo

1LT Robert Wright, 1st Flight Platoon Section Leader in the "NEW" Officer's Hooch at the A Company area, April 1967.
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Camp Radcliffe, April 1967664 viewsJohn Keller Photo

The Golf Course at Camp Radcliffe, April 1967. "Pee Here!"
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C-130 at Golf Course663 viewsEd Lemp Photo: "E" Btry (Avn) 82nd Arty
C-130 takes off from the Golf Course

With permission from Ed Lemp
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John A. Lundquist660 viewsReg Nelson Photo

SP5 John A. Lundquist, Crew Chief of 62-12355 in 1966
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Operation Golf Course, An Khe658 viewsPhoto by Marvin Wolf, PIO photographer, 1CAV

Operation Golf Course was the mission of the advance party, to clear the triple canopy jungle while minimizing damage to the grass below it. This involved backbreaking labor by the senior noncoms and field grades that made up most of the advance party (the rifle company that came along was not involved in clearing jungle because they were screening our expanding perimeter). We did not have a bulldozer or other earth moving equipment, so we used axes, a few small chainsaws (they were all o/a by the end of one week, machetes, Bowie knives, shovels, and two jeep winches. Once we were attacked in force and our position and mission no longer secret, we recruited thousands of local laborers (the mothers, children and grandparents of the local VC) to clear the area. That's what the shot shows. So it's not an operation at the Golf Course, it's Operation Golf Course, the mission of creating space for hundreds of helicopters that were then at sea. This photo was taken the first week of September 1965.
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Deros Center at An Khe653 viewshttp://b68mustangs.com/photopage39/photopage39.html
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Crew Chiefs Schlaudraff, King & Stevens651 viewsMilo (Mike) Schlaudraff Photo

Left to Right:
Crew Chiefs Mike Schlaudraff, James King, and Chuck Stevens at the base camp in An Khe
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