Looking up the ramp that lead down to the underground power plant at FOB Q-West.

LZ Gurkha artillery emplacement of 105 mm howitzers.

Medevacing a soldier wounded in the leg during an firefight.

Men watching the results of the bombing of an enemy position in the far tree line. Operation Allen Brook.

Mercenaries from in the parking lot of FOB Q-West only mess hall.

Mountains West of Camp Doung Son perimeter. March / April 1968.

MSR Tampa from the air. The MSR is the Main Supply Route coming out of Turkey extending all the way to Badaq.

Oakes aboard the hospital ship U.S.S. Repose in November 1968 after he contracted dysentery in the Khe Sanh Valley.

Oakes and his men preparing for their first convoy from FOB Q-West to Balad in April 2005.

Oakes and LCPL Lamphere with the platoon radios just before Oakes began working with the company. Lamphere was the man Oakes chose to replace him as platoon radioman. The day after this picture, Lamphere tripped a bobby-trapped hand grenade that took…

Oakes and three other soldiers acting as an escort for a Chinese couple in Chinatown, San Francisco.

Oakes at a refueling stop in Iceland on the way to Kuwait, the day after Thanksgiving 2004.