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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 hugh 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, steam-baths, bars, barracks, airfields, laundries and row upon row of little air-conditioned hootches for Air Force pilots...
...survived his final training. He wondered if his proud endurance of those physical trials was only fear in disguise, if he was desperately ignoring his failure to say a final dramatic no to the war. O'Brien decided he was a coward and boarded a plane for Cam Ranh...
Last month I talked with a reporter who was in Cam Ranh about six months ago. Sand drifts are covering the roads now, packs of wild dogs roam around the post and the 5000 beds of the 12th Evac Hospital are all empty. The street lights still turn on automatically every evening...
...difficult for me to imagine Cam Ranh Bay deserted and even more difficult to imagine Vietnam without Americans. The war and the country became real to me the moment I arrived and saw Americans everywhere...