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Here are some photos sent to me from Randy Richmond. Randy was with the 402nd Transportation Company (terminal transfer) 71st Trans Bn.  Jan 69 - Oct 70.  I met Randy in the Yahoo Long Bien Vietnam Veterans Club, of which we are both members. After talking with Randy in live chat on and off for a couple of months, his description of their company area sounded very familiar. Turns out we were both at Camp Camelot on Long Bien Post. To my knowledge, when I was there, the only companies at Camelot were terminal service units, which primarily operated the Newport Terminal Facility. Just before I left Vietnam, June 68, the Vietnamization Program started. As a result, the Vietnamese were taking over the operation of Newport Terminal. This meant when men rotated out of their units at Camelot, they weren't being replaced. This opened up now unused billeting for other units to use, of which one of them was the 402nd Trans Co. The 402nd was originally part of the 11th Trans Bn. located on TC Hill on Long Bien Post.  April 1968 they moved from TC Hill to Camp Camelot. In June of 1968 they were reassigned from the 11th Trans. Bn. to the 71st Trans. Bn..  Operational control of the Buu Long, Cogido, and Dong Nai Barge Discharge Sites and Ho Nai Railhead were also transferred to the 71st at this time.   Randy, thanks for sending the photos.
Me in the motor pool area - Camp Camelot
Me with a couple of the cleaning girls
Me and best friend Jim McCormick, an airborne qualified trucker
Me and shorty Minx in the motor pool area
Hodder, me, and Gale Norman chowing down on Beeny Weenies
Photo taken from guard tower looking down at the perimeter of 71st Trans Bn about 1969
Another one from the tower looking across the road to all the graves -  they were everywhere
Bunkers between the hootches - 402nd Trans Co. - 71st Bn - Camp Camelot
402nd orderly room
Girls hired to work in the motor pool  and same-same - girls gave him that name - he was Hawaiian
Me in motor pool area - building in rear was barber shop and small shop
One of the barmaids who worked in the 71st EM club which had just opened before I arrived
Fueling the cranes at Cogido barge site
7 ft. snake we killed on the way to airbase
R & R in Singapore's botanical gardens, right before this little fella ran me off the bench!
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