robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

A rainy day in Qui Nhon.

I am standing on a sidewalk which was raised 6' above the level of the parking lot in front of the HQ building. The Tac Ops Center where I worked had 18' of water flowing through it and even one frog that got washed in and climbed on a broom that fell over and was floating around the office. Someone picked up the broom and tossed the frog into the parking lot before I could get a picture. We didn't really need that water in the barrel on that day, did we?

That big wooden case on the "Fire Barrel" was thermite grenades to destroy the safes in an emergency and we weren't sure the water proofing was intact. The case set on the floor beside the safes. Opening it to check would have destroyed the water proofing. We asked a chemical corps officer if getting wet would cause them to ignite and he said "I don't know, but if they do water won't put them out. Move the case outside and put it on something high enough it is out of the water." So outside it went. Having a case of them cook off in the office would have been a real bad day. I was the 1. Classified Report Clerk 2. Classified Documents Control Clerk 3. Alternate Custodian of Classified Documents and I and the section Senior NCO had our desks right by the safe and we were glad to get that case outside and on top of the Fire Barrel.

And later we did open the case and the waterproofing was intact.

Yes I know the jeep on the elevated parking area of the PX is orange. It was driven by a guy who visited our office regularly. He and his co-workers wore civilian cloths and called each other Mister. We didn't know(or weren't supposed to) they worked for an agency known by three initials.

Who in Hell is the Kid wearing my uniform?

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Grump's Photos Loc: Dunedin FL

Dry season, eh? LOL! Thanks for sharing, thanks for your service, and Welcome Home Brother!
Andy
April '68 thru Nov. '69

Bill_de Loc: US

I just scanned these 50 year old Ektachromes. This was somwhere east of Long Binh. This was supposedly the highest peak in our AO. We had a reporter with us from (I believe) the NY Daily News. When we reached the second peak on our way to the third, the reporter told us he would wait there. He said we could pick him up on the way back. That was the best laugh we had in weeks.

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Grump's Photos Loc: Dunedin FL

Bill, thanks for the reply and pictures! Hardly seems possible that half of a century has passed since we were there.
Andy

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

In the dry season it only rained 2-3 times a week. In the rainy season it rained about 3 times a day, or just all day when a Typhoon blew in like in this case. 18" in 12 hours, then the eye of the storm passed over and it didn't rain for about 6 hours-when I posed for this picture and then 24" of water in in a bit less than two days sp by the end of the third day, 42". But it was probably more, the guy who checked the rain gauge would get distracted and when he finally went to check it it would be overflowing. That rain gauge had an extra two inches above the 12" mark. Then we had a full day with no rain.

traderjohn Loc: New York City

USMC 60-67 I never had a camera with me.

Grump's Photos Loc: Dunedin FL

I would be willing to bet that probably 80% of the guys I knew didn't have a camera.
Andy

IcemanKS Loc: RI USA

An Khe, Bong Song, North English, Tam Quan, English 🇺🇸

FunkyL Loc: MD

Hubby was in Da Nang and Phu Cat. He's given me permission to post a few of his. Originals are slides, much deteriorated by time and heat. The earliest slides are really tiny, taken with a miniature camera, later he got a 35mm Kowa. I got them digitized after his computer ate his scans of them, and did my best to clean them up. Asked him to pick the ones he found most meaningful, and made a photo book as a gift to him.

#1: airplane hangar, Da Nang, view from the latrine. #2: Phu Kat, composite of a number of slides taken from a ridge overlooking the air field. #3: grainy and dark self portrait. He took a number of portraits of other soldiers, some heartbreakingly beautiful, but I'm reluctant to post them in respect for privacy. #4: bob tailed kitten he stumbled over when running for the bunker during a bombardment. She was apparantly some sort of wild cat or domestic/witldcat hybrid, big enough to hunt the local feral dogs. His sergeant was terrified of her!

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Wingpilot Loc: Wasilla. Ak

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Wingpilot Loc: Wasilla. Ak

Preflighting the CH-47Chinook in the early morning light at Phu Loi Base just north of Saigon, 1971. Scanned from a slide. Unfortunately, using the blank white iPad screen made a poor white light for copying and shows a pattern of the circuit underneath the panel. I was a pilot with the 213th Avn. Co.

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GeneB Loc: Chattanooga Tennessee

Grump's Photos Loc: Dunedin FL

Iceman! Thanks for your service, and Welcome Home Brother.
Andy

Grump's Photos Loc: Dunedin FL

FunkyL Thanks for the pictures you posted. Most of the US troops in Vietnam had a soft spot for the animals. The maintenance shop where I worked had 3 dogs…… Wahtop, BD (for big dog), and FrancisX (named after our First Sargent Francis X. McCormick). Tell the Hubby thanks for his service, and Welcome Home Brother.
Andy

One of our local "adoptees" having a good time with my sock.

Grump's Photos Loc: Dunedin FL

Wingpilot! Ah yes! The venerable “Shithook”, as it was known to us non aviation types. If it didn’t fit inside the bird, strap it or hang it underneath……..it’ll get lifted. And if cargo ain't your thing, load it up with firepower and ammo and turn it into an AC-47. The bird of many uses! Thanks for posting, thanks for your service, and Welcome Home Brother.
Andy