Woody back from patrol.
Woody on December 21, 2009 in 101st Airborne, LAW, M-79, Missions, Woody No Comments »
Val Wuthrich with pack and M-79.
This is picture of me with a heavy pack. In this picture you can see a Light Anti-tank Weapon (LAW) on the side of my pack. There’s also those critical canteens. I always carried at least two canteens, usually more. There is a bag on top of my pack that carried a lot of my M-79 ammo. If you look closely above the lower canteen you will see a smoke grenade. We used smoke grenades to mark our position, usually for the helicopter pilots coming in to a landing zone (LZ) to pick us up. Looking at my fatigues, I would say that I have just returned from a patrol in the jungle with my platoon.
