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Please send Text and Photos relevant to Drifter Field Party to leemiller@ethi-usmappingmission.com. Ron Dolecki writes of Drifter Field Camp: I was a member of Drifter Field Camp from 1964-66. The camp chiefly consisted of field classification specialists who generally worked the northwest, north-central, and northeast sections of Ethiopia/Eritrea. Field classification specialists collected mapping data to include place names, provincial boundaries, river/stream status, bridge dimensions, road types, landmark feature locations, and other items of significance. We deployed our camp near towns/settlements called Fiche, Ambo, Lekempte, ---------------------------------------------------
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Larry Johnson was a civilian photo interpreter with the Army Map Service (AMS) group from Washington, DC and worked with Drifter Party from July 1966 through November 1967. (photo as of yet unavailable) -----------------------
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Gene Stanley writes: "With the mission from june 64 to dec 65." (More to follow.) -----------------------
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Each of these ZIP files contain several photographs sent in by Tom Hammack. Each file may take over 4 minutes to download. You will need a program that Unzips files. Click HERE to download a FREE version of ZIP Reader 8.0.18. Tom Hammack's photo's of Ethiopia: FILE #1 FILE #2 FILE #3 FILE #4 FILE #5 FILE #6 FILE #7 FILE #8 FILE #9 FILE #10 FILE #11 -----------------------
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----------------------- Mitchell Cotts-Tendaho Plantation and Village. Awash River-Afar Region-NE Ethiopia.
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SPC 5 Ron Dolecki 1964 - 1966. You can read accounts of Ron Dolecki's time in Ethiopia with Drifter Field Party, and his capture by the Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF) on the 
SFC Harold R. D'Entremont, NCOIC Drifter Field Party
Horace (Hoddy) Gardner
Field Classification Specialist 1964-66. To view Tom Hammack's picture albums ( in ZIP files) 
David R. James
John Kaffer 
Joe Lyons
Michael A. Mancari
Raymond Madrid
On Right-SPC Menear (Mechanic). On Left-Ato Messih (Interpreter)
Gary Mueller
Art Quist
Bill Rudis worked on the 
Larry Stevens
Dan Struck died from injuries received in a truck accident while serving in Ethiopia. 
Phil Wright
Drifter under a Baobab Tree at Ambo.
C-47 supply plane at Drifter Party.
Drifter at Tendaho Plantation-Awash River-Afar Region
Nick--Cook's Assistant at Tendaho
Drifter Party Field Camp Sign.
Drifter Group: Left to Right--Larry Stevens, Phil Wright, Gary Mueller, Joe Lyons, and Horace Gardner.
Lt. Pete Orlin in the desert.
Tom Hammack on the left with shotgun (shooting 00 buckshot) and Bill Rudis on the right with his new 30-30.
Tom Hammack with his warthog...
... and Bill Rudis with his.
Hammack's new tape machine coming in on the Chopper. Tom Hammick, Harold D' Entremont, Ron Dolecki, and Gary Mueller.
Drifter Clean-Up Day. Washing rigs in a river near Ambo.
Truck stuck in a river with guards in the back.
Hammack with JP4 tanker-convoy on the road from Asmara.
Mueller, Rudis, and Hammack.
A little R&R on the lawn by the Ambo swimming pool. Standing: Tom Hammack, seated left to right: Quist, James, Dolecki, Messih, and Menear.
