Thanks. It confirms the 3rd Army at least. Did your dad bring home an ssi?

Glad to help out, mtnman! I told yokota57 recently that I’ve hit a “dry well” trying to find military lighters, so I’ve branched off into law enforcement Zippos (some of which are military, but most not):  

Hey everyone! Sorry I haven't posted anything in a while. The wife had an accident and broke her foot along with hurting her rotator cuff. So, I was doing double duty as a caretaker. I finally got some work done and finished my howitzer, although it still needs some tweaking. Also, the rounds and ammo boxes are done, and I scratch built the aiming stakes. I might decide to go to different boxes & aiming stakes. I primed the base. I intend to scratch build some PSP for the howitzer wheels in the firing pit, unless I find them online. Enjoy the pics.    Semper Fi.   Manny  

The H700 key for my jeep is sold by every major parts dealer in Europe and the US... I'm going to need to find a way to disable the ignition some other way.

Here is one of the threads I was thinking of covering die hubs.    

At one time I had a bugle banner for the 1st Engineer Regiment, however, it is now part of the Corps of Engineers at Fort Leonard Wood.  It was the first and only bugle banner I have seen.  

There are several threads here on the wing forum that discusses the use of a master die/hub to make production dies. I believe this is the case with the “Form Offical Die” tooling sent out by the U.S. Mint to various manufacturers.   These appear to fit the description a master hub.    

Thanks to my ZIP-V (instead of MACV) advisors on this one, Cobra and Yoko!!! (wink)   Thanks so much for the AWESOME insights on life on the Hump Cobra!!

Here’s the unofficial site for MACV Advisory Teams:  https://macvteams.org   Perhaps there will be more information on this individual.

Top level score, mtnman! A couple of comments on the narrative from Don Cordless that show how different units would operate:   1. He carried 8 to 10 quarts of water. Each quart (32 ounces) weighs 2 pounds. The area that I was in had access to rivers, streams, and mud puddles. Personally I never carried more than four canteens, but I also used my water purification tabs a lot and drank many a mud puddle (strained through a piece of cloth).   2. He mentioned that his unit would stay on the “actual ridge itself” to have the high ground. My unit would stay on what is known as the “military crest” which was actually down just a bit from the actual crest. The big reason was if you are on the actual crest you are “backlighted” by the sky. So, different units; different methods.   3. He had an incident where after a “firefight” the enemy body count was “one dead monkey”. Funny story. We never had it happen that way, but we worked with Cambodians that had come over to our side. They were constantly killing monkeys, snakes, turtles, and dogs to augment their C rations.   4. He stated that his M-16 “never failed him”. I had the same experience: every time I went “click”, my M-16 went “boom”! Keep in mind however that early on in the War the M-16 had a host of problems, but by the time I got there they’d been resolved by chrome-lining the bore, getting rid of the open face flash suppressor by replacing it with a closed “bird cage” style one, improving the ammo used, adding a forward assist in case a round didn’t fully seat, and so on.   Anyway, just some observations. Again on the lighter: top score.