QUOTE]Originally posted by AuntyM:

Actually, that's pretty standard behavior there Rory. Caveman ALWAYS had his camera on deployment, even in the early days.
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I'm sure he's got some great photos of all the interesting places he's seen that were taken in a friendly picture perfect environment.

You reminded me however of an interesting thing I heard a Vietnam veteran that served his full tour say, 'Some guys did have cameras with them in SE Asia--If you didn't bring one with you, simple cameras could be purchased in cities relatively inexpensively'--but he went on to say that the well documented 'damp nature of the surroundings in theatre often ruined any photos that you could have developed'.

That moisture is well know to have jammed Stoner's M16 repeatedly while in the field.

What would it have done to a camera that was involved in so much action?

Maybe Jean-Paul Kerrie`brought a special water-proof cover for his state of the art color 8mm video camera, film and type writer to re-enact scenes 'in country for posterity while all the bullets were flying.