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- Text: food (11:15) • Had really bad food in Basic Training (11:40) • Was in a supply unit, so was never without supplies (12:00) • Had bowling alleys and movie theaters to keep them entertained (12:50) • Had a chance while in Germany to go to Augsburg
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- Text: , the soldiers would be brought back into a base camp, which tended to have modern amenities, including movie theaters; Dorstewitz thought it was neat that one of the camps even had a “steakhouse” (00:13:22:00) o On two separate occasions, when the unit came back
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- Text: of Vietnam o He had friends that had already been in Vietnam (01:39) o It was on the news and in the paper (01:48) He knew around the tenth grade that he wanted to join the military o His father had served in the European Theater during World War II He had
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- Text: Vietnamese bands perform (01:16:30) R&R on Second Tour -Took his R&R to Taiwan -Guide took him to theaters, movies, and to live performances -Enjoyed his time in Taiwan (01:17:24) Race Relations in Second Tour -Had two or three black men in his platoon in B
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- Text: and directed assignment to a major in-theater command. In my case the major command was the US Army Support Command Saigon (USASSUPCOM SGN) APO San Francisco 96491. My Availability Date was 4 November 1968. My Estimated Date for Change of Station Assigned
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- Text: , insofar as the food was actually cooked up and fresh (01:03:37:00) Most of the base camps that Harlan spent time at had their own small clubs for the men to visit; the base camp at Cat Lai even had a small, open-air theater (01:03:53:00) o Harlan remembers
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- Text: the unit’s movie theater and church; during the dedication ceremony, Van Dreumel managed to take a picture of the general (00:56:22:00) · Over the course of the year Van Dreumel was in Vietnam, soldiers were rotating both in and out of the country (00:57:11
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- Text: -Theater Transfer) test for Germany (00:43:43:00) After completing the test, Kloet was assigned to the G-2 section for a headquarters in Heidelberg, Germany; however, because his security clearance from 1966 had expired, Kloet needed to get it updated (00
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- Text: clean clothes, take showers, and go grab a couple of beers; there was a small movie theater on the camp and the soldiers were able to go watch movies there (00:26:11:00) At certain times, the soldiers were able to call home if they managed to get
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- Text: . Those that lived on base lived there, but being married, I lived off post, so I was 21 very rarely on the base camp, but they did have the usual theater, some museums, PX, of course, and commissary. We went on camp for those kinds of things
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- Text: a nice theater and several nice restaurants, although it was hot in the summer (00:11:18:00) San Antonio was somewhat unique because there had always been Air Force bases there; there were more bases around San Antonio than any other place