HomeMy WebLinkAboutRuss Harvell '65Am sending a couple of phatos..(if I had it to do again, I would take many, many mare,
but I was actually superstitious about taking pics in serious situations. (weird, I
guess)...anyway...l was just an Army 'Grunt' from '66-'68. Gan fill-in -the -blanks on this
stuff later, but basically.... ~
1966- Ft. Polk to Ft. Carson, GO for Basic thru AIT
Training at Carson included Long Range Recon Patrol (LRRP).
Volunteered to go to Viet Nam 1967
Arrvd Long Bein-Jan 1968 (just in time for TET)
Assigned to America) Div, 11th BRD , (Duc Pho) ~' /,'
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Area of Operation; Gtuang Nai Province (I Gorp) ,,,R„
MOS- 11 B (Infantry Rifleman) ,~(~ •~ ~ ~,:: ~
ANYWAY; the attachmts are pics of my LRRP squad (7 man) I'm 4th from left standing;
pic of a VC we captured after we recd sniper fire from a village & moved in to TCB (&
did ); & a pic I had made in Ghu Lai just 2 days before I was leaving country in 1968; I
grew the mustache while in 3 different hospitals for my last 3 months in country.
hope this all gets to you OK...