Welcome to the 8th Radio Research Field Station, Phu Bai Viet Nam

	Heres a pic I took of NAP (newly arrived personnel) training. Note the stateside fatigues...we didn't get our jungles for a week or some after we got to the 8th in Oct 67.. I believe that is hill 180 in the background from the north side. We drove north a few clicks on hiway 1 to get to this spot if my memory serves me right ....pity the poor water buffalos that wandered into some places.. Thom Hey I never shot one! BACK
	In 1967 the war was still popular, so most of us got a share of Christmas cards wishing us well from the 5th-6th graders in the us..here was our b-row room wall...course we had a pin-up too. Hey we had a christmas tree too.. BACK
	Here is the picture of the crater from the first rocket that hit the 8th RRFS at the beginning of Tet. It was dark and Dave Harting, Wes Chase and I were almost asleep in b-row when this crater's creator (a 122 mm rocket ) erased some of the dreams of a peaceful night in Phu Bai. Within a few minutes a-row was hit as we watched from the trench line. The flames rose really high in the sky. It was one hell of a sight that night. A couple of days later I took this pic of the crater from the "wake up to Tet call rocket"... ahhh that white sand. This rocket hit on the back side of the 8th in the area between the trailer rows and the trench line by the 3rd Mar Div. BACK
	Here is the star bunker nearest the end of the trench line going back from the trailer rows. bunker a-284 or 11. I just thought of it as Captain Mays's home during my stays in the sandbag bunker Dave Harting and I shared near L company of the marines on the hill 180 side. BACK
	This was the mandatory trench line walk on Christmas day 1967 that was supposed to get us used to going to our bunkers. One month later we'd need to do it fast (Tet). In the background on the left is the ill fated A-Row one month before it was flattened. BACK
	Here is a pic I took this afternoon of my melted piece of A-row... It is about the size of my fist. For those who were there you probably remember that some of the aluminum melted. This piece still has cinders from the wood embedded in it. It's my only piece of Nam I have left except for pictures. BACK
	This was what was left of A-row after the clean-up in february 1968. Later some tents were erected there, but for those who weren't there then another trailer row was hit by a rocket too. It went through the floor of c or d row and blew up under the ground buckling a couple of rooms' floors about 6 feet in the air. BACK
	Here is a picture of me at 18 in b-row....my first guitar...and before tet. EMail Thom Pettigrew dailylama@att.broadband.com BACK
Here's a pic of some of the MPC I saved from Nam (67-68). BACK