SP5 Marc D.Turpin, 1968/1969
2nd Platoon, 1st Squad

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Ben Tre' Soccer Field FSB (Fire Support Base)

1 - Area outside FSB
2 - Outside perimeter
3 - US buildings constructed later
4 - Village hooches
5 - Building bunkers

1 - First temporary bunker
2 - Entrance to the Soccer Field
3 - Going across last bridge standing to Ben Tre'
4 - Outside perimeter
5 - 1/84th Artillery 155mm howitzers (Foreground - full recoil) 

                                      

1 - Entrance to Ben Tre' Soccer Field and FSB
2 - Culvert
3 - Relaxing with 1/84th Arty guys
4 - photo of chopper landing. 1/84th in background 
5 - Moving Out with tool trailer in tow

How to Build a Barracks

1 - Marc Turpin using Pick-matic
2 - Bucket loader prepping the site
3 - Lots of muscle to set footers coutesy of Ronald Golemboski
4 - Prepping concrete slab - no names
5 - Screeding cement - wooden screed in forground, recent pour in background

1 - Setting walls
2 - Second floor rafters
3 - Second floor
4 - Laying second floor decking
5 -Setting second floor walls - screening for first floor in place

                                       

1 - Installing side vents
2 - First floor done, second floor ready for exterior vents/siding
3 - Second floor end siding - Marc Turpin and John May
4 - Marc and Gary Strader finish end siding
5 - Another view. OSHA would not approve this scaffolding 

         

1 - Daredevils
2 - Communications tower adjacent to barracks



How to Retrieve a Road Grader in the Drink (Don't Ask)
Near FSB David Ferry Site


                                       
1 - Navy diver; visibility in water - zero
2 - Navy crane on boat fishing for the sunken road grader
3 - Navy divers rigging the grader
4 - "Thar she blow"
5 - Not much to cheer about. The Battalion Motor Pool NCO probably cursed everyone involved for the next two weeks

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