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Here we go - We're leaving Fire Support Base Granite.
It will be 19 days before we return.
Mostly we do lots of this - 'humping'. The small open area we are walking through
was cleared out by a 155mm howitzer round.
Unfortunately we do lots of this - stream crossing.
Now that the monsoon has started, it looks like we'll be doing a lot more.
Occasionally we will check out a destroyed village for recent use. The soda bottle I am holding was made by the Brass and Glass Factory of Ido-China (A French Outfit).
At the end of the day we find a thick area to unroll our ponchos and spend the night. (It sure feels good to take that pack off!!)
Feedin time at the Zoo! The Vietnamese rice bowl is another of my prize finds. It came from an NVA regiment-sized bunker complex.
Every 3-5 days a helicopter comes out from the fire base to bring us food, water and, most important, MAIL!!!
After we have been resupplied the "log bird" returns to the fire base. . .
. . . And we return to our mission. We have many klicks (kilometers) to cover before night falls.
One of our most important finds on this mission was an NVA bicycle repair point.
This is one of 20-30 bunkers in the repair point. The bunker is about 8' X 10' inside. The living quarters are on top.
Fred Corn has stacked the bicycles in piles to be blown up.
This isn't a good picture, but notice the white "depth cord" that Terry Fauquher has connected to the 1/4 lb. chunks of C-4 (explosive). This is how the bikes will be blown.