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Birthday:
January 6
What unit(s) did you serve in with the 2d Cavalry?
C Trp, 1/2 ACR
Where were you stationed?
Bindlach "The Rock"
What MOS or job description did you have?
Driver and Gunner of C-12, Coors Can, Gunner and TC of C-17, CPT Crunch, and the new Coprolite.
What was your rank/title?
PV2 thru SGT
What years were you assigned to the 2nd Cavalry?
75 - 78
Tell us a little about your cav days.
The Cav days were the best of my Army career. Gotta cherrish those HDRs from the border camps. Buddies and names..Gene Beck, Kenneth Webb, Mark Sumner, "Wrong Way" Langlo, Skipper, Top Miller, Charlie Valentine, There are oodles more.
Tell us a little about you now.
Retired from the Army in '96. I'm still playing with big toys as the shop manager for an equipment rental company.
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Just click on a thumbnail photo, then when it opens up click on it again to make it real big. Sgt. Sumner is directly under the star. You are way down in the left corner.
I looked on the 1975 troop photo, and I don't recall Mark Sumner. A lot of the guys on there got there after I left in February, and a lot of the guys I knew aren't in the photo.
As for the C-15 explosion, I was right next to it when it went off. I extinguished SSG Brow just before it blew up, and somehow neither one of us was hit with flying debris. He had been in the drivers hatch sleeping when it caught fire, and I was sleeping in C-12 about a hundred yards away when rounds started cooking off inside C-15. It was a pretty crazy 45 seconds or so.
Had to laugh when I saw "Coprolite". Gene talks about "her" all the time!
I don't know if they were still talking about C-15 when you were there. It got DXed in a most violent way in July 1974. You can see what was left of it on the 2nd Cavalry Association's History Center photo gallery. http://history.dragoons.org/modules/gallery/album04
C-12 was my tank before you got there. We didn't get to put names on them though. I guess you guys started doing that right after I left in Feb '75.
I'm the one who painted C-12 camo at Camp Pitman during the summer of 1974, along with Sgt. Parmenter, the gunner, and Pvt. Paige, the loader. I was the driver and Lt. Andy Stilley was the TC.
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