heir magazines are packed with celluloid and most of their shooting is done with 35mm cameras. They also carry the more common bullet-filled magazines and a rifle. They hump it like the grunts. They shoot for history and posterity, not body count.
   What they accomplish during combat may not have an aura of immediacy, or glory. It isn't supposed to. It may even seem a

little fool-hardy. More than one unit commander has marveled at the soldier who shot film with one hand and his M-16 with the other.
   But foolish, daring or artistic, the work of combat photographers from 9th Signal Battalion is prized by Army historians and newspapers alike. Their pictures show the men, the equipment, the terrain, the uniqueness of waging war in the

watery, trackless Mekong Delta. They show the faces of life, and death, the anguish of man at war.
   To capture such graphic descriptions, 9th Signal Battalion photographers follow the maneuver battalions into tumid fields and paddies. They sometimes fight, and one man has died, while searching for the pictures to tell their story. Each man knows what he is looking for.