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NAVSUPPACT Salvors Saigon 1971 - Welcome to Vietnam!


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Naval Support Facility Da Nang

 

one of the busiest ports on the globe in 1970

 

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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

 

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.....as we folded our colors and commissioning penants and walked down the gangplank for the last time

 

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The training and materiel support provided between 1971 and 1973 was massive, but the spigot was shut off in 1974

 

OPERATION HELPING HAND

 

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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

 

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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.

 

 

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It is here that most officers and men were issued their first sets of Greens, gear and weapons before being dispatched to their commands.

 

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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.

 

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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."

 

 

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Photos from another website

 

The attack of 10 July 1969 that wounded 22 servicemen at the Annapolis

 

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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

 

 

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Details on weapons and uniform issue and reporting instructions for the field commands.

 

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