Salvage Sailor Posted December 30, 2013 Author Share #26 Posted December 30, 2013 Logistics from the top down Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted December 30, 2013 Author Share #27 Posted December 30, 2013 Naval Support Facility Da Nang one of the busiest ports on the globe in 1970 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted December 30, 2013 Author Share #28 Posted December 30, 2013 and NAF CAM RANH BAY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted December 30, 2013 Author Share #29 Posted December 30, 2013 MSCOV The Military Sealift Command was a major player in Vietnam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted December 30, 2013 Author Share #30 Posted December 30, 2013 But the game in 1971 was ACTOV Accelerated Turnover of U.S. Navy Assets - Training the rapidly expanding Vietnamese Navy and giving them our hardware Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted December 30, 2013 Author Share #31 Posted December 30, 2013 .....as we folded our colors and commissioning penants and walked down the gangplank for the last time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted December 30, 2013 Author Share #32 Posted December 30, 2013 The training and materiel support provided between 1971 and 1973 was massive, but the spigot was shut off in 1974 OPERATION HELPING HAND Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted December 30, 2013 Author Share #33 Posted December 30, 2013 ....placing the USN out of the animal husbandry business. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted December 30, 2013 Author Share #34 Posted December 30, 2013 US NAVAL FORCES VIETNAM NAVAL ADVISORY GROUP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted December 30, 2013 Author Share #35 Posted December 30, 2013 I really appreciate people who keep everything. Along with his travel orders to his new command, he has the reporting instructions for what to do when that hot tropical smell hits you and you first set foot in-country. On the back are handwritten notes The form is from NAVSUPPACT and is dated December 1970 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwb123 Posted December 30, 2013 Share #36 Posted December 30, 2013 Excellent! Thanks for sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted December 30, 2013 Author Share #37 Posted December 30, 2013 After you picked up your seabag, cashed in your money and got on the grey bus, it dropped you off at the Annapolis BOQ/BEQ, "Saigon's Innkeeper" Every sailor who arrived for a tour in-country ended up here for inprocessing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted December 30, 2013 Author Share #38 Posted December 30, 2013 It is here that most officers and men were issued their first sets of Greens, gear and weapons before being dispatched to their commands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted December 30, 2013 Author Share #39 Posted December 30, 2013 Field Gear Issue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted December 30, 2013 Author Share #40 Posted December 30, 2013 Annapolis Armory Weapons Issued to officers, CPO's and enlisted men. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted December 30, 2013 Author Share #41 Posted December 30, 2013 Field Greens Issue - these would have been the USN uniforms that new arrivals were 'issued' After this, they would pick up other uniforms or customize what they had during their tour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted December 30, 2013 Author Share #42 Posted December 30, 2013 USN Lieutenant in issue field greens 1971 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted December 30, 2013 Author Share #43 Posted December 30, 2013 Lectures by pretty Vietnamese women and then - Weapons Issue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted December 30, 2013 Author Share #44 Posted December 30, 2013 Watches - The Annapolis took security seriously, they had been attacked more that once. "Remember, you are in a war zone and there is no set time when CHARLIE will strike." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted December 30, 2013 Author Share #45 Posted December 30, 2013 Manning the bunker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted December 30, 2013 Author Share #46 Posted December 30, 2013 Photos from another website The attack of 10 July 1969 that wounded 22 servicemen at the Annapolis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted December 30, 2013 Author Share #47 Posted December 30, 2013 Uniform of the Day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted December 30, 2013 Author Share #48 Posted December 30, 2013 "All Vietnamese bars and steam baths are off limits...." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted December 30, 2013 Author Share #49 Posted December 30, 2013 skipping several pages of mundane services (laundry, games, etc) we get to some very interesting material. The next sections are a wealth of info on the USN order of battle in 1971 This is the Officer Inprocessing Information Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted December 30, 2013 Author Share #50 Posted December 30, 2013 Details on weapons and uniform issue and reporting instructions for the field commands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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