Fort Jackson Basic Training Yearbook 1969 Company B
Front Cover, Fort Jackson Basic Training Yearbook 1969 Company B, 2nd Battalion, 1st Training Brigade. GGA Image ID # 16c4ab5a33
Roster and Photos for Recruit Company B, 2nd Battalion, 1st Training Brigade for 1969, United States Army Basic Training, Fort Jackson, South Carolina. Company Commander: CPT James W. Matthews. 192 Recruits Graduated on 23 May 1969.
Extras: Illustrated Story of Bau Bang.
Company B 1969 Organization and Schedule
- Organization: 2nd Battalion, 1st Training Brigade
- Commenced Training: 31 March 1969
- Completed Training: 23 May 1969
Company B 1969 Leadership
- Brigade Commander: COL Edward S. Saxby
- Battalion Commander: LTC.Leon R. Livingston
- Brigade Sergeant Major: CSM Francis Johnson
- Battalion Sergeant Major: CSM Jeffery Carter
- Company Commander: CPT James W. Matthews
- Executive Officer: 1LT Warren Wynn
- First Sergeant: 1SG Norman Jamison, Jr.
- Senior Field Leader: SFC Lawrence Nine
- Training Officer: 1LT John R. Wilborn
- Training Officer: 2LT John L. Sullivan
- Drill Sergeant: SGT David A. Mitchell
- Drill Sergeant: SGT Richard Delaney
- Drill Sergeant: SGT John Warburton
- Drill Sergeant: SGT Wayne Watson
- Drill Sergeant: SGT Ruben Santos
- Drill Sergeant: SGT William Morgan
- Drill Sergeant: SGT Michael Garrone
- Drill Sergeant: SGT Henry Walters
- Drill Corporal: CPL Roy Greene
- Drill Corporal: SP4 Edward Kinsey
- Mess Steward: SFC Ned Wilson
- Supply Sergeant: PSG Felix Castro
- Company Clerk: SP4 Roy Silverfarb
- SGT Thomas Canada
Company B 1969 Recruit Roster
- Rigoberto Albert
- Dennis Alexy
- Antonio Ambroselli
- James Autry
- Ronnie Bagwell
- Robert Bailey
- Richard Bartel
- Roger Batten
- Frederick Bell
- Richard Bellantoni
- Francis Bianca
- Charles Bode
- Terrence Boggs
- James Borland
- Terry Borland
- Danny Brady
- David Bright
- Charles Bruno
- Gerald Cain
- Francis Campolong
- Henry Caputo
- Robert Carothers
- Roy Carte
- Gerald Buck
- Anthony Cirlin
- Joseph Colon
- Sammie Cooper
- Philip Costanzo
- Charles Counts
- Bob Cribb
- George Dash
- Fernando De La Cruz
- Hector Diaz
- Jerrold Elkins
- Daniel Eppley
- E. Fernandez-Perez
- R. Figueroa-Molina
- M. Flores-Alvarez
- Anthony Forcelli
- Richard Fortenberry
- Samuel Fourman
- Thomas Frantz
- Lydio Fuentes
- Grover Fuller
- John Gagliardi
- Stanley George
- McArthur Gilliam
- Arthur Ginsberg
- George Givargidze
- Epifanio Gonzalez
- J. Gonzalez-Soto
- James Gorham
- Melvin Grady
- Larry Green
- Richard Grove
- James Grusofski
- John Haggerty
- Robert Hall
- William Hall
- James Harrington
- Richard Harter
- Anthony Hatfield
- Melvin Hazlett
- Edgar Hiles
- William Holcomb
- Jerry Hopkins
- Stephen Horgan
- Calvin Horn
- William Huff
- John Humphreys
- Frederick Imes
- Keith Isner
- Larry Jackson
- Clinton Johnson
- Robert Jones
- Romelio Junco
- Richard Junk
- Michael Kolesar
- Frank Kovaleski
- William Kramer
- Roger Loy
- Frankie Lumley
- William Lyons
- Barry Martin
- Wallace McClurg
- Harry McKune
- James Meyers
- John Mizik
- Dale Moore
- Joe Mosley
- Grady Moye
- Arthur Mullins
- James Murdock
- William Myers
- Richard Neal
- Terry Neff
- Herbert Nelson
- Walter Nelson
- Douglas Nichols
- Michael Olivares
- Gaspar Otero
- David Paich
- Manuel Perez
- Victor Perez
- Michael Paige
- Ronald Parrott
- Warren Zent
- Fernando Pizarro
- L. Pascuali-Torres
- Frank Patterson
- Edwin Perez
- Allen Ramirez
- Ronald Rantovich
- Ricky Ray
- Samuel Rhoden
- Ernesto Rivera
- Darrell Rice
- Fred Riggins
- Axel Rivera
- Walter Riznychok
- Sonny Robinson
- Robert Rooks
- Ramon Rosario
- Ellis Rorie
- Carmelo Roman
- John Rutter
- Mario Salvini
- Donald Sandie
- Epifanio Santiago
- J. Santos-Rios
- Stephen Sarich
- Ronald Saunders
- Ed Scates
- David Schleicher
- Lester Scott
- Frank Servidio
- Ulysses Simonds
- Louis Simonetti
- Dale Singer
- Cari Slaten
- Arthur Smith
- Donald Smith
- John Smith
- Reginald Smith
- Roy Smith
- Samuel Smith
- Tommy Snyder
- James Sparks
- Marvin Stroud
- Walter Stumberger
- John Teeters
- David Thompson
- Stanley Thompson
- Vincent Trapani
- Tracy Usry
- Andres Valentin
- Reginald Vyphuis
- Herbert Walton
- John Watt
- Terry Weaver
- Harold Webster
- Bobby Whitten
- Roy Wicht
- Frank Williams
- Morris Williams
- Robert Wilson
- Richard Wood
- Frank Wurl
- Barry Young
- Burl Aye
- Stephen Carroll
- Roger Corbin
- Edward Coleman
- C. M. Figueroa-Garcia
- AI Franco
- Thomas Garner
- William Garner
- Luis Hernandez
- Ronnie Haigier
- Joseph Koraido
- Heinz Konrad
- Paul Kelly
- Joseph Lopez
- Tony Lecroy
- Rickey Long
- Jeffrey Milligan
- Gary Parson
- Peter Rudman
- Richard Ramsey
- John Smith
- Joseph Thorne
- Barry Young
Fort Jackson Boot Camp Yearbook Photos - Company B 1969
Company B 1969 Fort Jackson Basic Training Leadership, Page 1. GGA Image ID # 16c4ac09fe
Company B 1969 Fort Jackson Basic Training Leadership, Page 2. GGA Image ID # 16c4bab3cb
Company B 1969 Fort Jackson Basic Training Leadership, Page 3. GGA Image ID # 16c4f9ec3b
Company B 1969 Fort Jackson Basic Training Recruit Photos, Page 4. GGA Image ID # 16c55871da
Company B 1969 Fort Jackson Basic Training Recruit Photos, Page 5. GGA Image ID # 16c6750fef
Company B 1969 Fort Jackson Basic Training Recruit Photos, Page 6. GGA Image ID # 16c68ab008
Company B 1969 Fort Jackson Basic Training Recruit Photos, Page 7. GGA Image ID # 16c6930e25
Company B 1969 Fort Jackson Basic Training Recruit Photos, Page 8. GGA Image ID # 16c6a44aaa
Company B 1969 Fort Jackson Basic Training Recruit Photos, Page 9. GGA Image ID # 16c6e388e5
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Company B 1969 Fort Jackson Basic Training Recruit Photos, Page 11. GGA Image ID # 16c719916a
Company B 1969 Fort Jackson Basic Training Bau Bang, Page 12. GGA Image ID # 16c79e6fa6
Bau Bang is a representation of a fortified Vietnamese hamlet with a 400 meter perimeter. Construction on Bau Bang began in March I960 and was completed in September 1966. The purpose of the hamlet is to provide a realistic atmosphere and environment for the training of those personnel on orders for assignment to Vietnam.
The hamlet was built under the supervision of SFC Woodrow Weaver, a former military advisor in Vietnam who actually lived in a hamlet named Bau Bang. The actual construction was accomplished by trainee personnel who had completed their training and were awaiting assignment orders.
The dwellings represent the various types found throughout Vietnam. In the highlands, the Montagnards live in huts built on "stilts" while in the lowlands, the Vietnamese live mostly in grass huts, some with mud walls and others with grass or tin roofs. The yellow and red flag in front of the Headquarters building is a reproduction of the flag of South Vietnam.
The hamlet fortification represents two of those types most popularly employed by the Vietnamese hamlets. In front is the moat with punji stakes and in the rear is a barricade wall of pointed logs placed closely together in an upright position, while at the entrance and in each corner there is a guard tower. Inside the berm, a tunnel connects the entrance tower with a "spider hole" and an underground bunker from which a Soldier can fire but cannot be seen. Within the hamlet itself a fire arrow is employed to direct air support against night assaults.
In each hamlet, at least one haystack and one well are evident, and in many cases the Viet Cong will conceal a tunnel entrance in either or both. In Bau Bang, the haystack covers an entrance to a tunnel complex which is one meter square and approximately 75 meters in total length. The tunnel actually divides and becomes two; one tunnel leads to an exit approximately 50 meters outside the stockade immediately to the left of the haystack. A false tunnel entrance can be found in the hamlet shrine and beyond the rear gate, a trail leads to a wash area located beside a small stream.
A section of the hamlet has been utilized to familiarize trainees and visiting personnel with the various types of booby traps employed by the Viet Cong. In this area you will find a false bottom fox hole with punji stakes, the "horizontal whip," boards with sharpened spikes designed to penetrate the sides of a boot or leg, a 200-pound mace designed to eliminate up to a squad of men, a "Daisy Chain" of grenades, a deadly cross bow or homemade sawed-off shot gun, man traps and traps which fire a round through a man's foot when stepped on.
Reports received by the 3d Training Brigade from those who have completed their training here and are now serving in Vietnam assure us the lessons learned at this hamlet have helped them immeasurably.
Company B 1969 Fort Jackson Basic Training Bau Bang, Page 13. GGA Image ID # 16c7a1dfea