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CAPTAIN COSMO BARONE, COMMANDING OFFICER OF CHARLIE COMPANY @ FORT RILEY AND VIETNAM

Cosmo (now)

Cosmos Daughter(MARLENE) Born As The Unit Was Getting Ready To Leave For Vietnam

Loading Train At Ft Riley For Deployment To VN 65

Inside a C-130 On Our Way to Vietnam( I flew because of leave for daughters birth)

And the Band played on ( Oakland)

Ship leaving for 1st Inf Deployment , coming out of San Farancisco harbor

ship leaving for Vn. Alcatraz is to right of photo

Lt. Little on ship going to Vietnam

Lt Little on ship

Lt Stange

& Lt. Little On Ship

This Was Staging For 1st Comps As They Arrived In Vietnam. (Each Comp Helped The Next Comp Deploying B Helped C, C Helped D ect)

Assembly Area Saigon College( this was staging area for troops of 701 when they arrived in country.)

Lt Stange & Cpt Barone in front of comp mess truck in the assembly area

Trucks Loading For Lai Khe,1st Convoy To Go Up Hwy 13 ( THUNDER ROAD) Since The French Left

Waiting For Convoy,Sometimes Was Very Boring It Took About 2 Hrs To Go From Lai Khe to Dian( if I rem correctly)

Officers Mess tent before they got mess hall buildt

THE START OF CHARLIE COMP'S LEGEND STARTED WITH THE CP AND OUR UNIT FLAG

Company Movie Area, You Could Actually See Movie While In Outhouse , Except For It Would Be Backwards! LOL

every tent had a bunker next to them, these were the first sleeping quarters , they buildt hooches in the begining of 67.

We Hired Vietnamese From Village To Help Build Our Mess Hall

We Hired Vietnamese From Village To Help Build Our Mess Hall It Went Up Fast

Building The Company MESS HALL

THIS WAS THE ENLISTED MEN'S SIDE OF MESS HALL. I HAVE TO SAY IT WAS QUIT ADEQUATE.

Company Area Was Laid Out, As Cosmo Weeled & Dealed to Get Us Sidewalks.

Slowly The Comp Area Took Shape, but, There Was Still A lot of Work Ahead. Between Defending Theirselves, Setting Up Suitible Living Area, Building Permanent Buildings, The Company Also Had to Support The Armor & Infantry Units.

Company Area Notice Lister Bag For Storing Drinking Water? There Was A Speed Bag Right Buy it.

SGT. JOHN KEEGAN SUPPLY SGT 65-66

THANKSGIVING DINNER "65"

SSGT. MAC PUT OUT A SPREAD

FOR THE TROOPS & ORPHANAGE

SSGT McMELLON

ENTERTAINING A GUEST FROM THE
ORPHANAGE

SGT ARTHUR N. MC MELLAN Mess Sgt Who Was First Causality For C Comp & 701st. He Was Killed In a Sniper Attack On His Jeep Coming Back From Ben Cat On Dec,1 65

Citation being given to Sgt Mc Mellon's Wife

In Memory Of

SGT ARTHUR N. MC MELLAN

In Memory Of

SGT ARTHUR N. MC MELLAN

CHRISTMAS "65"

THE GUYS REALLY TRIED TO MAKE THERE 1st XMAS SPECIAL BY INVITING ORPHANS FROM THE 2 VILLAGES (BEN CAT, LAI KHE) TO COME TO DINNER

SGT. KING(STANDING IN JEEP) CAPT BARONE & 1st SGT ABBOTT TRIMMING TREE

Xmas Time "65" COSMO TRIMMING THE TREE

COSMO ALONG WITH THE REST OF THE UNIT MADE XMAS SPECIAL BY, THERE GENEROSITY AND CARING ATTENTION FOR THE LESS FORTUNATE! THEY PASSED THE HAT AND GOT GIFTS AND TRIMMINGS

XMAS "65" CHARLIE COMPANY STILL REELING FROM THE LOSS OF SGT MAC(KIA) + 3 OTHERS THAT WERE IN JEEP( ALL WERE WOUNDED),WO PARMITER,SP5 TERRY, &SP4 VOGEL

Cosmo With Ann Margret & Col. Brodreck

VIETNAMESE GUESTS

Lt. Skip Stanger

Lt Stanger with General

Civilian Wrecker We Had To rent, Because We Loaned Ours Out

Rented Tow Truck From Village of An loc,Needed a Wrecker And So We Rented One From Vietnamese

THE 1ST TIME I SAW CPT. COSMO BARONE WAS IN JUNE 66, STEVE WEST, TONY POWELL, KEN BERTOZZI, & I ARRIVED IN COMP. IT WAS AFTER LUNCH AND WE WERE ALL 4 SITTING IN FRONT OF HIS DESK IN HIS OFFICE.. SEEING THIS GUNG HO CAPT WITH A CIGAR DANGELING FROM HIS MOUTH,CREW CUT HAIR.... HE WAS QUITE A SITE, AND VERY IMPOSING... HE TURNED OUT TO BE A GREAT LEADER AND STILL IS ... CIGAR AND ALL!!!!! (WILLY RABE)