Photo Gallery from Jim Hudson

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Jim Hudson served with the 1/8th Infantry from June '68 thru Feb '69. He entered country via Cam Ranh Bay, 17 Feb '68. After replacement depot time
he was made dispatcher for the General's cars and jeep for about two months (have a shiny brass ashtray at all times). Although he had an MOS of 71B20
(Clerk Typist), while spending a brief time with A Company, 3/12th Infantry, they changed his MOS to a T, maintenance technician. He spent his time either
on patrols, Medcaps, shotgun on convoys, or perimeter guard duty. He actually spent most of his tour in at Dak To, assigned to HHC, 1/8th in the motor pool,
with his original MOS of Clerk Typist, although he really never did see a typewriter.

I remember him from FSB-29, when he came to do maintenance on the generator used by the Battalion Tactical Operations Center. Richard Sacket was also
with him that day. At Dak To he often went on MEDCAP's to local villages as security and on one occasion showed some film (pacification thing or other).
Maybe that was how he became the projectionist and would setup the projector and show movies in 1/8th motor pool area. He once showed the Green Beret
movie and had a firefight going on the other side of the river, up in the hills at the same time ... too weird! They had those little get togethers for the field troops
and occasionally they'd scrounge steaks from officers mess and have a steak out too. I attended one of those movies and the steaks were a real treat!

After his first 5 months at Enari, he spent his time at Dak To, with occasional travels back on convoys to Camp Enari, but never stayed long ... too chicken shit,
as we all remember. To round this out, during that time there were 21 visits for rabies shots, a bout with "non-recurring" malaria, a flipped a deuce-n-half,
and R&R to Taipei a friend of his got him. Jim is most proud of the time spent on Medcaps. Even though he was along for security reasons, it still felt good doing
something worthwhile.

Yup, that's the deuce-n-half, in good shape I may add. It was sent back for salvage. As it turns out it should of been towed, but a cocky SSG had him drive it back.
Turned out the a-frame was cracked and that's what 704h Maintenance determined caused the accident just South of Kontum.