Khe Sanh, South Vietnam, April 12, 1971 – An American soldier, lighting a cigarette in front of his machine gun atop a vehicle, stands above a sign serving as testament to his battlefield beliefs.
Military Viet Nam war soldiers, helicopter & dust
US Srmy soldiers army men waiting aircraft
Tactical military river boat training
A Marine uses a radio during a field exercise at Camp Hansen in Okinawa, Japan, Sept. 12, 2017. The Marine is assigned to the 3rd Marine Division’s Combat Engineering Company, Combat Assault Battalion.
Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Carl King
George Peppard Jr. was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1928. On graduating High School he joined the United States Marine Corps on July 8, 1946. He served as a corporal with the 10th Marines, being discharged in January,1948.
Dennis Franz Schlachta (/frɑːnz/; born October 28, 1944), known professionally as Dennis Franz, is an American actor best known for his role as NYPD Detective Andy Sipowicz in the ABC television series NYPD Blue (1993–2005), a role that earned him a Golden Globe Award, three Screen Actors Guild Awards and four Primetime Emmy Awards. He also portrayed Lt. Norman Buntz in the similar NBC series Hill Street Blues (1985–1987) and its short-lived spinoff, Beverly Hills Buntz (1987–1988).
After graduating from college, Franz was drafted into the United States Army. He served eleven months with the 82nd Airborne Division and the 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam
While serving, Franz was a member of the 82nd Airborne Division and served in Vietnam. His unit saw combat, and the experiences he had overseas left a profound mark on him.
“I was curious about the military service and went into the Army,” said Franz. “[It] was a very traumatic, life-changing experience… I’m not as frivolous as I once was. I experienced death over there, and losing friends. I got as close to being shot as I care to. I could feel and hear bullets whizzing over my head, and that shakes you up quite a bit.”
