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Photo G0697: What to do about a dropped crate of ammunition is being addressed by the transport truck driver (left) from whose truck the crate fell, an unidentified 25th Infantry Division MP (center), and C Company, 720th MP Battalion, SP/4 Bruce Lambert (right), during a 1968 Tay Ninh/Cu Chi Convoy run in Vietnam. 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 Lamber 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.