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Photograph

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English

General Note

Roll 5 Combat Tracker Team, 4th Inf. Det, (War Dog Provisional) 18-20 Feb. 1969 Camp Enari Vietnam. Photos by SP5 Bryan K. Grigsby (DASPO) Roll Five 1. Slate 2-3. Sgt William Cairy (Longview, Tex.), Tracker Team Commander, briefs an infantry plt leader as to his teams findings during a tracking mission. 4. SP4 Hollis Walker (Adel, GA.), dog handler, gives his tracker dog, 'Skipper,' a drink from his canteen during a brief pause in the tracking mission. 5. A tracker team hugs the ground after an alert has announced the presence of enemy elements nearby. 6. As a combat tracker team remains on the alert, infantry personnel move forward to check out a suspected enemy position. 7-9. An Infantry soldier checks out the body of a dead NVA regular whos final flight was tracked by a combat tracker team. 9. SP4 Richard Johnson (Flint, MICH.), visual tracker inspects a discarded field dressing which indicates that the man they are tracking is wounded. PFC Billy Housand (Loris, S.C.), coverman, also an experienced visual tracker provides security for the visual tracker as he examines the field dressing. 10. SP4 Richard Johnson (Flint, MICH.), visual tracker, discovers a bloody field dressing lost by a fleeing enemy soldier as his cover man PFC Billy Housand (Loris, S.C.), cover man, provides security. 11. SP4 Richard Johnson (Flint, MICH.), visual tracker, and PFC Billy Housand (Loris, S.C.), cover man, move past a large leaf with blood on it, indicatinf a wounded man recently passed that way. 12. SP4 Richard Johnson (Flint, MICH.), visual tracker, inspects a bloody field dressing lost by a fleeing enemy soldier during a tracking mission in the field.

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Caption Description

Roll 5 Combat Tracker Team, 4th Inf. Det, (War Dog Provisional) 18-20 Feb. 1969 Camp Enari Vietnam. Photos by SP5 Bryan K. Grigsby (DASPO) Roll Five 1. Slate 2-3. Sgt William Cairy (Longview, Tex.), Tracker Team Commander, briefs an infantry plt leader as to his teams findings during a tracking mission. 4. SP4 Hollis Walker (Adel, GA.), dog handler, gives his tracker dog, 'Skipper,' a drink from his canteen during a brief pause in the tracking mission. 5. A tracker team hugs the ground after an alert has announced the presence of enemy elements nearby. 6. As a combat tracker team remains on the alert, infantry personnel move forward to check out a suspected enemy position. 7-9. An Infantry soldier checks out the body of a dead NVA regular whos final flight was tracked by a combat tracker team. 9. SP4 Richard Johnson (Flint, MICH.), visual tracker inspects a discarded field dressing which indicates that the man they are tracking is wounded. PFC Billy Housand (Loris, S.C.), coverman, also an experienced visual tracker provides security for the visual tracker as he examines the field dressing. 10. SP4 Richard Johnson (Flint, MICH.), visual tracker, discovers a bloody field dressing lost by a fleeing enemy soldier as his cover man PFC Billy Housand (Loris, S.C.), cover man, provides security. 11. SP4 Richard Johnson (Flint, MICH.), visual tracker, and PFC Billy Housand (Loris, S.C.), cover man, move past a large leaf with blood on it, indicatinf a wounded man recently passed that way. 12. SP4 Richard Johnson (Flint, MICH.), visual tracker, inspects a bloody field dressing lost by a fleeing enemy soldier during a tracking mission in the field.

Caption Location

Camp Enari Vietnam. Camp Enari was established near Dragon Mountain (Núi Hàm Rồng) and Highway 19, 12 km southeast of Pleiku. The base was named for 1st Lieutenant Mark Enari, the first 4th Infantry Division member awarded the Silver Star (posthumously) in Vietnam, who was killed in action on 2 December 1966.[1]: 171–2  Camp Enari served as the base for the 4th Infantry Division from September 1966 until February 1968 and from April 1968 until February 1970

Caption Person(s)

Slate 2-3. Sgt William Cairy (Longview, Tex.). 9. SP4 Richard Johnson (Flint, MICH.). 11. SP4 Richard Johnson (Flint, MICH.), visual tracker, and PFC Billy Housand (Loris, S.C.)

Caption Dates

18 February 1969 - 20 February 1969

Caption To Date

1969-02-20