Marine Corps Fortifications Dong Ha Air Base Vietnam War

thee Rockpile 0:44

Yep, not the Dong Ha Airbase.

Logistically speaking, Vietnam was a dream. A nation shaped like an hour glass. Cut off the middle and you own the other side. US troopers would have owned this fukn war if not for the candy asses in D.C. and so called rules of engagement.

To all those units who made up their own rules and did the job when it needed to be done, cheers to you.

India 3/4 66, lifted out of Dong Ha into LZ Crow (Helicopter Valley) for Operation Hastings. Dong Ha was just a dirt airstrip and a small Air Force Station next to it. How that would change. This video is of the Rockpile area.
Great seeing the M-14, a real rifle that shouldn't have been replaced.
Semper FI.

Gentlemen, you're correct. This video is not DongHa and it the Rockpile from the vantage point of looking west from Camp Carroll. I was with A Trp. 3/5 Cav attached to the 5th Mech. June70-71. Did a half dozen thunder runs to the Rockpile + was part of Dewey Canyon 2.

Was with C Trp--Same Time--Ditto

Definetly not Dong Ha, I think it was the Rock Pile. I was with 3/4 1966-67 Lima Co and I think this video is defintely I Corps around Leatherneck Square 1966 era. ie M14's.
Semper fi Devil Dogs

I was Dong Ha for seven months beginning in Nov. 1966 and the area depicted appears to be several miles inland from the base, which had a psp runway and a gutted Phantom at one end.

The time period appears right, the gyreens are posing for the cameraman with 14s and not 16s.

Hey Juan, That looks a whole lot like FSB Alpine to me. You're right about the Rockpile out west on 9 and the airstrip at Dong Ha. We took an ambush out of that tree line one morning....Sgt, 2nd Platoon, 1st Force Recon Co.

look at those beautiful phrogs!