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  • Text: ...d 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, and had a month of convalescent leave (14:00) • Visited an exchange s...
Austhof, Jack (Interview outline and video), 2004

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  • Text: ...0) o Eventually, 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 into a b...
Dorstewitz, Peggy (Interview outline and video), 2010

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  • Text: ...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 a love for horses (02:28) o He wanted to get hired at the General Motors plant He got hired at General Motors just out of high scho...
Manthei, Stephen (Interview outline and video), 2012

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  • Text: ...to drink and watch 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 Compan...
Slaughter, Everett Jr (Interview outline and video), 2016

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  • Text: ...As was the common practice, the orders were general in nature 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 ...
Brodie, Craig (Interview outline and video), 2014

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  • Text: ...hat 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 that one time, the men watched Doctor Zhivago, a cold weather movie in the midst of the Vietnamese heat (01:04:02:00) The boa...
Harlan, Charles (Interview outline and video), 2012

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  • Text: ...e airstrip to attend the dedication of a building that Van Dreumel’s unit had built that served as both 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 ...
Van Dreumel, Michael (Interview outline and video), 2012

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  • Text: ...3:43:00)  Once his tour finished in September 1972, to preclude having to go back to Fort Bragg, Kloet took an ITT (Inter-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; howev...
Kloet, Ronald (Interview outline and video, 3 of 3), 2011

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  • Text: ...amp Evans, the soldiers were able to get 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...
Drury, Richard (Interview outline and video), 2012

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  • Text: ...e 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, but otherwise I didn’t have, really, a whole lot to do with it. Int...
Dahlen, Richard (Interview transcript and video), 2007

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  • Text: ...the barracks with Kloet, if only to walk along the beach (00:11:02:00)  Kloet would go into San Antonio, which had 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 base...
Kloet, Ronald (Interview outline and video, 1 of 3), 2011

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  • Text: ...(46:02) Well, we had a lot of—In 101st, we had a lot of fraggings. They had little, outdoor movie theaters back at the base camps where you’d—Guys could set up—watch a movie. There were people rolling hand grenades down there fragging people. I actually had—Officer of the guard—...
Mackey, Michael (Interview transcript and video), 2018