ASP-1 April 1966 Until September 1966

ASP-1 Da Nang Viet Nam

April 1966 - September 1966

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Some Of The Ammo Techs

Some Of The Children

These first five photos form a sort of panorama looking first north, you can just make out
Dogpatch in the distance, then in sequence your view travels east, the airport buildings are in
the distance, then southeast, then south by the first helipad photo, and finally south west by
the second helipad.

When entering the main tent compound from the main road that
cut through the ammo dump you passed these two “Moral”
signs.

Walking the other way into the dump you were greeted with
this view

If you continued to walk in this westerly direction you came upon a nice pond the Sea
Bee’s carved out for us. It didn’t last long though, with the Vietnamese heat and sun the
pond was declared unfit for humans by the corpsman and was closed. If you walked
another 100 yards or so you eventually stumbled onto the EOD section and the western
boundary of the dump.

These next nine photos will give you a feel for the tents and a glimpse of “Rex”
our camp dog. The first two photos show the Officer’s hooch in the background.

The following views of the dump were kindly donated by Joe Capozzo and where noted by Wayne Rhodes,
Roger "Loader" Chaput, and others.

Hill 327

The Chapel

Joe Capozzo

105mm Ammo

More views of the helipad

The "Club" with a view of
the movie screen on the left

Blum standing at the
entrance to "Club
Lanier"

Loaded for Bear!

Whoops! Did he,
perhaps, have too
much to drink?

Damage to Club Lanier

Joe Capozzo

Wayne Rhodes

The Dump was constantly being improved. These two photos are of
Vietnamese surveyors doing their job.

Another photo of our
luxurious outdoor movie

(Wayne Rhodes)

ASP-1 September 1965 Until April 1966

Wayne Rhodes

June 1967 - July 1968

I used to have a bunch of photos of FLSG-A but have lost them over the years. I do have plenty of memories of it though. We
ate our meals, received our injections to ward off the plethora of diseases possible in Viet Nam, and I even passed my High
School GED test at FLSG-A. These next two photos are of two Vietnamese women collecting the unused food for a pig farm
the FLSG-A mess hall is in the background.

Joe Capozzo

The "Tom Greene County"
in all her glory. She ended
up doing service in the
Spanish Navy. From there
her fate is unknown.

Our arrival in Da Nang was uneventful. After five days steaming from Naha, Okinawa we finally rounded the peninsula by the
Hai Van Pass,entering the Bay of Da Nang, and leaving the South China Sea behind . The water color changed from a light sky
blue to a muddy brown as we approached the mouth of the river Han. We traveled up the river a short way where we docked
next to a museum filled with ancient stone Buddha's, dragons, and lions. We were loaded into a truck and transported to
FLSG-A.

FLSG-A May 2009

The first photo is looking across route 1 from Dogpatch into where FLSG-A was. The next two are first looking
left then looking right to where the messhall used to be. The next photo with the red banner is just past where
the messhall was on the same side of the street. Number five is a typical house occupying it's piece of
FLSG-A.

These next five photos are how the general area of our disembarkation in Da Nang looks today.

Looking down the main street of FLSG-A first towards the airport and next back towards route 1. The third photo is
looking out from FLSG-A across route 1 into Dogpatch, followed by route 1 first looking south then north.

May - 2009

FLSG-A Home Movies, click on the thumbnail to download/view the movies.

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ASP-1 Home Movies, click on the thumbnail to download/view the movies.

Joe Capozzo

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Joe Capozzo

These first three photos are of the Tom Green County and our arrival.

After passing Dogpatch heading west from FLSG-A you came to an
intersection with a left turn that took you past the Sea Bee camp on the
right and wound its way along the base of Hill 327 and up to ASP-1.

SeeBees
Joe Capozzo

When I arrived in April of 1966 the compound consisted of nothing
more than a collection of tents. The only hooch with a tin roof was the
Officer’s hooch. There was no mess hall, we had to take a deuce and a
half down the mountain, back through Dogpatch, and into FLSG-A for
our meals. If you were pulling guard duty you received C-rations for
supper. Shortly after my arrival we built an enlisted club and a movie
screen. Martha Raye even did a performance for us on a stage erected
in front of the screen.

FLSG-A 1966

ASP-1

Roger Chaput