Help with Vietnam Group

[USAF29thINFvet]

Hi all,

 

Was able to get a photo of this shadow box that belonged to a relative of mine. Can anyone help me identify the DUIs and the small multi colored parachute?

 

Thanks

 

 

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The one on the left is the 26th Artillery, the one on the right, 94th Artillery.

 

The patch is the First Field Force Vietnam, a Corps sized organization, which had Artillery assigned to it directly. Both units had units in Vietnam, the 26th, several separate target acquisition batteries, the 94th a full firing battalion. The Fourth Army patch there we see, he might of been in the 3rd Battalion 26th Artillery (Target Acquisition) at Ft Sill OK before or after he was there, Fourth Army controlled the Artillery units at Sill, I think up to the mid or late 60s, if he was at Sill, then he might of been in the 94th Artillery in Vietnam, who had their 2nd Bn there, the 2nd Battalion 94th Artillery (175mmGun, Self Propelled), from 1966 to 1968 it was assigned to the First Field Force Artillery, after that date it's reassigned to the III Marine Amphibious Force Artillery, and later still to XXIV Corps Artillery.

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No idea what the multi colored chute patch is

[USAF29thINFvet]

Thanks Patches.....from what I can gather he was up near the DMZ...Camp Carroll I believe?

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Thanks Patches.....from what I can gather he was up near the DMZ...Camp Carroll I believe?

That sounds about right, see this topic for more on the 2/94 Arty.

 

http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/321405-us-army-use-of-the-m1955-flak-vest-in-vietnam/

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Do you know the year he was there?

[USAF29thINFvet]

Do you know the year he was there?

 

Most of the pics he has have 1967 on them.....

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Most of the pics he has have 1967 on them.....

And there you have it, probably was in the 2/94 Arty, 2/94 Arty still assigned at that point to IFFV.