On The River 1969

Early 1969 and DJ is looking for a community radio station in Vietnam. Lucky for him Radio Lai Khe is there for his listening needs and Machine Gun Kelly is spinning the vinyl and reel to reel. Lai Khe was home base for The 1st Division, The Big Red One, and also for HHC for 168th Eng (C) BT. It was a big base camp and home to thousands of soldiers. It was also part of the Michellion rubber holdings in South Vietnam being French and all that. Much of Lai Khe was row upon row of rubber trees and we were charged with maintaining them and ourselves. Lai Khe was also known as Rocket City as was was most of the base camps in RSVN. Pictured is Rick Sieling from KC, MO and Smitty from Alabama. Jack Ostrander and DJ helped Smitty get his GED in Vietnam. Rick...........we didn't do much except be thankful we were in his presence....best friend and buddy you wanted to be with when it hit the fan. Love you 4 ever buddies.