| 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. |
