| 71st Transportation Battalion Vietnam Veterans First Reunion - Day Two Our Tour of Fort Eustis Second Stop Of Our Tour - 508th Trans Motor Pool Thank You Captain Wilhelm |
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| 71st Transportation Battalion 508th Trans Motor Pool Sign |
| Captain Wilhelm is giving us an orientation of the 508th motor pool operation. |
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| SSGT Arnold Explaining How Vehicles Are Repaired, Repairs Are Monitored And Parts Are Ordered - All High Tech Now |
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| Checking Out One Of The Trucks In The Motor Pool Mary And Jack Park Looking Around The Motor Pool |
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| Looking Around The Motor Pool |
| Nilla Mixing It Up With Some Of The Troops The Weapons Area |
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| Weapons Orientation - Many Improvements Since Vietnam |
| Rich Morawa, former Newport Terminal security guard, is really interested in these new weapons. |
| Dennis Holding A Machine Gun David Giving This One A Good Look |
| It looks like Judith has held one of these weapons before. Heading Out To All The Vehicles |
| HMMWV - High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle |
| Nilla Looking Like She Wants To Drive One Away |
| Lots Of Trucks At The 508th TC |
| M 1086 MTV LWB With MHE |
| M 1086 MTV LWB With Armored Cargo Area M 1083 MTV Standard Cargo |
| 3 GIs - One Guy & Two Girls - Sure Is A Different Army Today Looking At More Of The Vehicles |
| Rich Volunteering For Some Security Work |
| Rich & Bob Talking With Cpt. Wilhelm |
| Checking Out The Trucks |
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| Randy wishes he had one of these in Vietnam. |
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| OK Randy - Time To Get Out Of The Truck Nilla With Another GI |
| Randy just doesn't want to get out. |
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| Tom's Turn To Kick The Tires And Start 'Er Up |
| Above - Al Krabbenhoeft - Former Newport Sgt. Of The Guard - Inspecting The Vehicles |
| Bernie Checking Out The M998 HMMWV |
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| Dave - Jim - Rick - With Two Of The Motor Pool Men |
| Dave & Rick Checking Out The Engine On This M915 Vehicle |
| Herb - Looking For Something Rich - didi mau or dinky dau? |
| SSGT Hayes & Nilla CPT Wilhelm & Nilla |
| The Troops From The 71st Trans. Bn., 508th TC Waiting Our Arrival - They were kind, courteous and very informative. |
| Greg & SP4 Cook Charlie - Al - Tom - Bob Talking With SSGT Hayes |
| PLS Family (Palletized Load System) HEMETT (Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck) |
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| Nice Piece Of Equipment |
| Looking Around And Talking With The Soldiers |
| Reviewing Some Of The Photos We Just Took |
| More Looking And Talking |
| We had a great time at the 508th TC Motor Pool. |
| Al - SSGT Hayes - Bob - Charlie |
| Nilla Wearing SSGT Hayes' Shirt What are we looking at? |
| Getting Some Education On The PLS Vehicle |
| More Trucks SP4 Jividen |
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| More Of The Vehicle Displays |
| Randy Letting Us Know What kind Of Day He Is Having CPL Bazan Talking With Jim |
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| Jan & Kay - You know they really love these trucks. |
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| More Trucks At The 508th TC Motor Pool |
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| Dave Having A Good Time Up There |
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| The lady in the pink shirt is Vicki Bowker from the Fort Eustis PAO. She was responsible for setting up the Fort Eustis tour. Thank you Vicki for a great job. We all loved our tour and will remember it for years to come. |
| Back On The Bus And Heading For Our Third And Last Stop On Our Tour, Third Port Next Page Continue To Reunion Photo Page Four - Third Port - 10th Trans. Bn. |