35 Years Ago Today

I arrived in Quang Tri, Vietnam, new, slightly muddy boots and all.

I was 19.

     One of the military/U.S. Army jobs I had was anchoring a nightly TV Newscast on The Armed Forces Vietnam-TV Network of stations. I originated those newscasts in a small basic studio that was connected to the transmission "truck" that I'm standing in front of in this photo. 

This photo shows most of the AFVN studio buildings. The sandbags were in place to prevent winds from blowing the roofs off.  Way in the background, on the right, you can see one of the observation towers that circled the base camp.

 Here's the view looking up the ladder used to reach the top of one of those observation towers.