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| This Hedgehog is so spiny it's almost unrecognizable |
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| Mountain Bluebird |
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| Becca sees a water truck on the road to the mountaintop |
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| This gives an idea of how hilly the desert floor can be |
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| The truck Becca is staring at, watering the dirt road up the mountain |
4 comments:
Packrat: Did you serve in Vietnam, or was your service lucky enough to be "between wars"? My Dad, deceased about a year now, served in the South Pacific on a destroyer during WWII. He was also in Occupied Japan for a while.
I wonder how helpful watering the dirt road actually is.
I served in Vietnam, Scott, running "Operation Linebacker" strikes in the north, and sitting on the gunline in the south lobbing rounds at specific enemy targets.
I don't know if anyone will find this interesting, but Scott's question got me thinking of the past.
"Below is pasted a copy of the Deck Logs from the USS Lawrence DDG 4. She was but one of many that were involved.
After an upkeep period in Subic Bay from 12-19 December, LAWRENCE returned to Linebacker Operations in the Gulf of Tonkin . She reported as an element of TU 77.1.1 on 21 December. During this period through 30 December, LAWRENCE was flagship for COMDESRON 11. Eighteen (18) Linebacker strikes were conducted, expending 1,089 rounds against primary targets and 296 rounds of counter-battery fire against enemy coastal defense gun sites. During this period enemy fire was heavy and accurate. LAWRENCE was under enemy fire for a total of 123 minutes with 388 rounds of enemy fire falling in the immediate vicinity with some air bursts and surface splashes as close as 10 yards. The ship suffered only superficial topside damage from shrapnel."
http://www.linebacker2.com/Navy.html
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