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TSN3.JPGTan Son Nhut / Camp AlphaA "slick" lands at the airbase.
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TSN4.JPGTan Son Nhut / Camp AlphaThe laundry at Tan Son Nhut airbase. But...does it look like a place where you clean uniforms?
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TSN5.JPGTan Son Nhut / Camp AlphaA bunker under contstruction at TSN airbase. Later reports indicate that Tan Son Nhut and Camp Alpha became favorite targets for harassing mortar attacks.
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TSN6.JPGTan Son Nhut / Camp AlphaDucks play in a puddle outside the laundry building at TSN.
If you're guessing that this is where the uniforms were washed, you wouldn't be far off!
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TSN-Laundry.JPGTan Son Nhut / Camp AlphaA peek inside the laundry. We soon learned that "laundry" in Vietnamese means "less dirty".
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TSN7.JPGTan Son Nhut / Camp AlphaThe Officers Club at Tan Son Nhut airbase. Inside it resembled a nightclub or speakeasy...very low lighting.
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TSN9.JPGTan Son Nhut / Camp AlphaSlot machines inside the Officers Club.
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TSN10.JPGTan Son Nhut / Camp AlphaThe MP Gate at TSN
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TSN11.JPGTan Son Nhut / Camp AlphaAn ancient truck arrives at the MP gate. Looks like it belongs in a museum.
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TSN12.JPGBubble ParkThese Bell helicopters were mostly used for commanders to visit their units in the "safer" areas. These birds were no match for any hostile ground fire.
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Pleiku_Sign.jpgWelcome to PleikuWell, not really. After my one-week excursion thru Camp Alpha and Saigon, it was time to get down to business. I caught a 0400hrs flight out of Tan Son Nhut into Pleiku in mid-Nov 1967. That's where the "real stuff" began. It was the HQ of the 2/9th FA Bn at the time. After checking in and getting my assignment, some of the "regulars" wanted to show me the town of Pleiku. You can tell from the sign alone this was my first mistake. It was a shithole of the worst degree. I never went back there, EVER!
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Crane-water.JPGSkycrane DeliversA chore usually performed by a CH-47 Chinook, here you see a Sikorsky SkyCrane delivering a water trailer to an LZ.
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