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...SECOND MONTH I was in Vietnam I took a transport plane from Bien Hoa up to Cam Ranh Bay to conduct some business for my company. I eventually had to go to Nha Trang and Cam Ranh was the staging point for traffic flying north...
Looking down as we made our approach I saw a huge sprawl of buildings--arranged by some methodical mind that must have paid meticulous attention to right angles. Some 40,000 men were stationed at Cam Ranh in 1968 and the base had every sort of facility: stores, clubs, hospitals, restaurants, steambaths, bars, barracks, airfields, laundries and row upon row of little air-conditioned hootches for Air Force pilots...
Planes landed at Cam Ranh every six minutes; ships unloaded millions of tons of supplies there monthly; hundreds of thousands of soldiers flew into the base to be reassigned to the northern parts of South Vietnam. It was incredible to me then that three years before there had been nothing there but white sand and the startling blue water of the South China...
...Central Highlands, known to the generals as Military Region II, North Vietnamese troops were maneuvering around Kontum, thought to be a prime Communist target. On the coast, sappers struck the big U.S. base at Cam Ranh Bay, killing 3 Americans and wounding 15. Far to the south in the Mekong Delta (Military Region IV), there was a rash of shelling, and attacks hit airfields outside two provincial capitals. For the moment, however, the Communists had really opened only one new "front"; that was in Military Region III, the mid-country region that encompasses Saigon. That area was rapidly becoming...
...largest share is slated for compulsory treatment and rehabilitation of addicted Viet Nam veterans. What Nixon proposed, and quickly put into effect last weekend at Cam Ranh Bay and Long Binh, is a program that will subject all G.I.s to urine tests before they return to the U.S. to ascertain whether they have been using heroin or amphetamines. Those found to be on drugs will be given a week of detoxification before they are sent home. If Congress approves, they will also receive an additional three weeks of mandatory therapy in the U.S. at Veterans Administration facilities...