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Photo G0542: SP/4 Eli I. Chavez a member of a B Company, 720th MP Battalion, 89th MP Group, 18th MP Brigade ambush and recon squad standing next to the scout dog handler SP/4 David “Amigo” Cortez of the 212th MP Company Scout Dog Unit, 720th MP Battalion on the roadway just inside the entrance of An Xuan Village in the battalion Tactical Area Of Responsibility in Bien Hoa Province, Military Region III, Vietnam in 1969. The building to the right is the village school and the white bridge in the background is the new Friendship Bridge over the Cay Nga Canal built in a 1968 civic action project. Courtesy of SP/4 Eli I. Chavez, B Company, 720th MP Battalion, February 1969 to February 1970.