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Photo G0697: A dropped crate of ammunition is the topic being addressed by the transport truck driver (left), from whose truck the crate fell during a 1968 Tay Ninh-Cu Chi Convoy run in Vietnam, and an unidentified 25th Infantry Division MP NCOIC (center). Watching is C Company, 720th MP Battalion SP/4 Bruce Lambert (right). The cargo had been listing to one side because it was not properly secured. The vehicle joined the convoy at Cu Chi so it was the 25th MP Company responsibility to make sure the cargo was properly secured for the trip. When it was spotted SP/4 Lambert requested that the vehicle be sent back to Cu Chi but the 25th MP Company NCOIC refused. When the crate dropped, SP/4 Bruce Lambert reminded the NCOIC, "told you so." As they say... shit runs down hill.... so the 25th MP took it out on the truck driver. Courtesy of SP/4 Harry G. Lambert, C Company, 720th MP Battalion, 89th MP Group, 18th MP Brigade, September 1968 to November 1969.