"My pictures are from '69. Here's a pic of the barracks barge tied up inshore from the 23. The 1 boat was the USS Flagstaff, one of the two hydrofoils, the other was the Tucumcari. I don't remember what that 2 boat was. You can see Monkey mountain…"
"Actually, now I think about it, the 2 boat was the Tucumcari. There were only two boats made in that class and they changed the hull design between the two."
"Lon, I lived in the transit barracks at Tien Sha for a few days before I got assigned to the Lighterage division. We usually went to the EM club at Tien Sha annex and ate at the roach coaches, but sometimes we went to Tien Sha for the movies or the…"
"I was assigned to the Lighterage Division, NSA Da Nang from May '69 to May '70. I spent the first six months ferrying materiel from Da Nang to Sa Huynh & Cua Viet/Dong Ha and all the detachments in between on the YFU 4 & LCU 1477. Most of the second…"
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