I graduated from NCOC in November 1970 and went to Vietnam in 1971. I was an old army brat and my father was in the army from 1940 -1967 until he retired. I stayed in the army and retired as a first sergeant in 1990.

The upper left picture is me. I'm a teenager in that picture and now I am 55. The upper right picture is me looking into the camera. A friend took this picture. He hollered my name I looked up and he snapped the picture when I was fixing my ruck. The truck to the right of me has the whole front end blown off as you can see. I was in the back of this truck when it ran over a landmine.  I took the two bottom pictures. On the left is a close-up of the same truck. I was standing in the area where the two side panels join in the extreme upper right of this picture when the mine detonated. I took the picture on the lower right. That's my C.O., Captain Turgeon’s truck that was in front of us on the road. If you look close you can see the mine crater in the road just before where the truck sits. This is in - I Corp between Hue and Quang Tri. We were moving down this road and I was looking directly at my C.O.'s truck when it was lifted completely off the ground and set over on the side of the road. I thought they were all dead. My truck was moving toward his truck when it detonated a second mine. It picked it up and set it over on the side of the road also.

                    
 Carl Lively   Class 1-79