Ethiopia - United States Mapping Mission

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CWO Lee Thomas 1968 - 1969

E-7 Floyd Sims - 1965-66 and 1967-1968

My 2nd assignment was NCOIC of Dugout Party to Lake Langana to provide water to the Denver & Dakota parties.

CPT Earl Prechtel 1969 (1LT with Dugout Party). Earl writes: "Lee Thomas was a highly respected survey warrant officer. I don't know when he arrived in country, but as I recall, he ETS'd in early '69, about a month early, due to some family related issue. As Assistant S-3, I temporarily took over his field party until his replacement arrived."

Richard T. Miller

Regarding Dugout party, I was a member of that in 1965. We were asked to come up with a name that started with "D".
At the time we were a water purification crew, though there were some of us with MOS of surveyor in the crew. While at a lake somewhere in the south I helped carve a dugout canoe from a tree we’d chopped down and added outriggers of bamboo. It was this boat that was the inspiration for the name "Dugout". Richard Miller (For the full story check the 'Stories and Memories' page)