Phu Bai
 

What a nasty little shit hole.
On the way to Lang Vei I stopped off in Phu Bai for a few hours.
I never seen so many marines in one spot. We landed on an air strip? that had a sign at one end it said MAG then a bunch of numbers behind it . Never did know what that ment. When I left Phu Bai the Huey I was on was about 1/2 mile behind two of those big ugly Marine helechopters, we were heading west, a rocket came up from the floor below right in front of the second chopper. He made a 90 degree left and then a 90 degree right and kept on flying, I didn't know those things would turn like that. WE, climbed about 2000 feet and kept flying. The two guys in the front of my huey were pointing and jestering to each other, I , of course had no idea what they were talking about. The two marine choppers broke off and went North and I went north also.
Eventually We landed just outside Lang Vei and I was met by my squad and a duster commander , who we were to support.
The next month would be very exciting and extreamlly hazarous to your health.

Ron

We went through Phu Bai When the 1st Cav moved from I Corps to III Corps in 1968. There were Marines everywhere and we knew why. That is where all the beer is stockpiled for I Corps. Each pallet of beer had an armed Marine standing on top of it. My Company got on our LST with 157 cases of beer. Some of the guys had been in I Corps for most of a year and had gotten no beer. Just ketchin up.

Walking up some of those valleys around Lang Vei it wouldn't have surprised me to have jumped a dinnosaur. Very scary place

Ron
 

I read your other post, [this site] I guess I thought people were getting tired of hearing how I spent most of 1968 in the Hue Phu Bi area with the Marines. For a while I think we were the only Army unit. Our base camp was called Gie Le Combat Base. [All Marines and Seabe's.] I don't think the Marines liked us very much, they called us doggies.

Never made it to Phu Bai
 

I fucked in the Ducs
and the Phucs really sucked
But I never went to Phu Bai

I stayed in th Pleis
In the heat of the days
But I never went to Phu Bai

I used to hang with a gang of Sedang
in a place called Ple Jereng
But I never went to Phu Bai

Ive been to Chu Lai
And just east of My LAi
But I never went to Phu Bai

Ive banged in the Dangs
And Sang in the Quangs
But I never went to Phu Bai

Now you can slit throats on Cam Border
And call in HE on the Z
But if you want a good base
Phu BAi is the place
The only place you want to be

Ive drank in the BAns
Got High in the Phans
But I never went to Phu Bai

I humped through the Ba's
Slept through the Nha's
But I never went to Phu Bai

Hope it was a great place!!
James
Happy just to be alive

I was in Phu Bai briefly in late 1966 ( 2/26 th Marines). Odd , I never had a beer except at the Army Aviation Co. club . Then we went north of Hue to support 3/26 Marines .

I convoyed from Chu Lai to Phu Bai after landing with the 82nd Airborne Division in FEB68. We built a base camp, Camp Rodriguez, west of Gia Le. I guess it eventually became part of Camp Eagle.

James. Great poem as usual, Bud :ae: . Pretty much same-same me, except I HAVE been to Pu Bai :D .