It sat in a horseshoe shaped canyon with a fairly deep ravine down the middle of it. Golf company's area isn't visible. It is hidden by the hill Norm was standing on when he took the picture.
I was here for a couple of days when I first got into country and for a couple of days that summer and that was about it.
By the standards of the time it wasn't too bad of a place. We did have a psuedo messhall. As I'm remembering it, it only served lunch and you ate outside, but it was a hot meal. I think we are standing in 1st platoon's area.
Just looking at the countryside and the living conditions this is almost certainly at Tugboat.
The ARVN's also had a platoon sized base near here. You can just see it above the pointed tent on the right.
One day they had a bunch of us over for lunch. No idea what we ate, but raw pork fat seemed to make up a big portion of it. I figured we'd all come down with Trichnosis but what the hell we ate it anyway.
Probably taken as 1st platoon was leaving for a sweep. We are standing on the road that ran throught the base. The bridge is behind this Marine.
Notice the small building on the right, this was our 4 hole crapper. It was conveniently located next to the road for easy viewing of passerbys as we took a dump.