All Photos by CMSgt Derrill Ballenger, Ragged Scooper 45B
Tour of Duty Jan 66 - Jan 67

Robin

It has been a year or more since I promised to send you some old snapshots of our Ragged Scooper days. Broken scanners, lost photos, and normal procrastination have been rampant, but I am breaking out of the mold... 

I told you that we had your old jeeps. I believe we had 64K64, 64K65 and 64K66 at the RoK Cavalry Regiment at Binh Khe. This was about 5 miles from the An Khe Pass, on Highway 19.

(The Command Post (CP) was also known as Thunderbolt). 

The pictures are both of 64K66, One of the photos is obviously posed. I believe we had a press photo group out doing some shoots. The O1E is a Ragged Scooper from Qui Nhon, landing to pick me up at Thunderbolt for a VR mission. 

All of these are taken in 1966.

{This is where my jeep 64K65 ended up.  Then it move on to others and was last remembered in 1968  Photo in my personal section - Robin}

Setup and protected.
Note that there are two MRC-108's in line

Photo group Posed Shot

Ragged Scooper from Qui Nhon

Robin - I came across another picture that I thought you'd like.
This is the hooch we built at the Cav Regiment (Binh Khe).
 Actually there are two. The smaller one in the foreground was built by
 your colleagues before I arrived. Eight of us lived in it for a month
while we built the larger one behind it. If you look carefully, you can see
the whip antennas sticking up out of the hooch.
That, of course, was just a dismounted MRC-108.

Regards...Derrill Ballenger...Ragged Scooper 45B