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Navy Compound at Dong Tam circa 1968

This is a Picture of the Navy side of Dong Tam.  Several buildings have been identified in the table below.  If you were in Dong Tam and can help identify any buildings or locations on this map, please email me.

As mentioned on a previous Dong Tam page on this site I spoke of harassing mortar attacks while I was there from Nov. - Feb. 1969.  On one occasion, I was headed out of the my hooch (Building 18) to chow in the evening.  At the point of location M2 on the above pic, the first mortar exploded at location M1.  I started running toward the bunker at location 11 and just as I rounded the corner of Building 12, the second mortar exploded at the exact spot (M2) where I was standing when the first mortar exploded. Had the order been reversed, this web site wouldn't be here for you to see.  After going back and looking at that hole in the road, I wanted out of Vietnam as quickly as possible.  I certainly didn't want to be one of those killed in the last month of his tour.  My mental attitude changed significantly at that time.  My rationalization and fatalistic attitude which had served me well during the first 3/4's of my tour suddenly changed to one of "look out for your butt and survive." 

No.

Description of Building
1 Enlisted Housing (Hooch)
2 Enlisted Housing (Hooch)
3 Enlisted Housing (Hooch)
4 Enlisted Housing (Hooch)
5 Enlisted Housing (Hooch)
6 Enlisted Housing (Hooch)
7 Enlisted Housing (Hooch)
8 Enlisted Housing (Hooch)
9 Enlisted Housing (Hooch)
10 Enlisted Housing (Hooch)
11 Bunker, Also B
12 Enlisted Housing (Hooch)
13 Enlisted Housing (Hooch) Showers between 13 and 14
14 Enlisted Housing (Hooch)
15 Enlisted Housing (Hooch)
16 Enlisted Housing (Hooch)
17 Four or Six Hole Crapper
18 Housing (Filipino Steward's Hooch)
19 Enlisted Housing (Hooch)
20 Enlisted Housing (Hooch)
21 Enlisted Housing (Hooch)
22 Bunker
23 Enlisted Housing (Hooch)
24 Enlisted Housing (Hooch)
25 Vehicle Repair Facility
26 Enlisted Housing (Hooch)
27 Shore Patrol Hooch
28 Enlisted Housing (Snipe's and Shipfitter's Hooch)
29 Chow Hall
30 Generator Shed (Three 175 KVA units in parallel) Water tower north of 30
31 Officer's Club
32 Bunker
33 Four or Six Hole Crapper
34 Enlisted Housing (Hooch)
35 Soda Fountain/Ice Cream Shop
36 Enlisted Housing (Hooch)
37 Enlisted Housing (Snipe's and Shipfitter's Hooch)
38 Mess Hall Storage
39  
40 Enlisted Men's Club
41 Chief Petty Officer's Club
42 Acey Duecy Club
43  
44  
45 Personnel Office or Sick Bay
46 Chapel
47 AB8AZ "The Voice of The Delta" MARS Radio Station / Navy Communications Center
48 Chief Petty Officer Quarters
49 Cook's Hooch
50 Gunner's Mates Hooch
51 Enlisted Housing (Snipe's and Shipfitter's Hooch)
52 LCDR Stone's Command Office
53  
54  
55  
56  
57 Seawolf Officer's Hooch
58 Navy Post Office
59 SEAL Team Hootch  (most SEALS were at nearby MyTho)
60  
61 Showers
62 Officers Quarters with adjacent bunker
63 Officers Quarters with adjacent bunker
64 C/O Quarters and Communications Bunker or Seawolf Officer's Hooch??
65 HQ/Administration
66 CBMU-302 Enlisted Hooches
67  
68 Officers Quarters with adjacent bunker
69 Officers Quarters with adjacent bunker
70 Seawolf Enlisted Hooch
71 CBMU-302 Enlisted Hooches
72 Enlisted Housing (Hooch)
73 Officers Quarters with adjacent bunker
74 Officers Quarters with adjacent bunker
75 Seawolf Enlisted Hooch
76 9th Infantry MARS Station - 2nd Report says that this was the "Old Armory"
77 Old 2 1/2 ton truck van body with Div Arty Metro equipment and Plotting/Recording Central - Later removed for USO stage
78 Div Arty Octagon tent used by Metro NCOIC/Warrant Officer - Later removed for USO stage
79 Metro Div Arty - 10KW Generator
80 Div Arty Metro Rawin set - AN/GMD-1 (Automatic tracking radio receiver for balloons) - Brought over from Ft. Riley, KS by troopship to Vung Tau. Then to Camp Bear Cat before deployment to Dong Tam. Orders read: "Detached Service to "A" Btry, 3/34th Arty Bn for Administration".  Information in #'s 77-82 submitted by CWO4 George Carlstrom, Jr., Commander of 9th Div Arty Metro Station circa 1968 (USA Ret.)
81 Store room for Calcium Chloride Canisters to make Hydrogen for Div Arty Weather Balloons - Paint Shack
82 Inflation tent for Div Arty Weather Balloons. - Paint Shack
83 Two large tents.  Nearest was Supply Tent.  Further side of this one was one of two Main Personnel Tents (6 men). - Beverage cooler - Maybe Seabee Quarters later on.
Information received from John Lambe, U.S. Army Div Arty Weather Balloon Section used for Ballistic Firing Corrections on the 105-8" guns - Feb 68 to July 68
Near side of nearest large tent is:
1. Thatched hut built to accommodate an old ice cooler we used for beer & pop called it the "Commo Bar".
2. Single stall Crapper (reduced to rubble by a mortar hit & rebuilt in record time).
3. Between these two structures was the piss-tube.  
84 Second Personnel tent.  Nearest side of this tent was another smaller tent.  The smaller one was occupied by (2) EOD personnel - Maybe Seabee Quarters later on.
85 Four or Six Hole Crapper
86 Construction Battalion Tents (later Recreation Fields) Seabees that built Dong Tam's buildings
87 Construction Battalion Tents (later Recreation Fields) Seabees that built Dong Tam's buildings
88 Construction Battalion Tents (later Recreation Fields) Seabees that built Dong Tam's buildings
89 Construction Battalion Tents (later Recreation Fields) Seabees that built Dong Tam's buildings
90 Construction Battalion Tents (later Recreation Fields) Seabees that built Dong Tam's buildings
91 Construction Battalion Tents (later Recreation Fields) Seabees that built Dong Tam's buildings
92 Construction Battalion Tents (later Recreation Fields) Seabees that built Dong Tam's buildings
93 Construction Battalion Tents (later Recreation Fields) Seabees that built Dong Tam's buildings
94 Construction Battalion Tents (later Recreation Fields) Seabees that built Dong Tam's buildings
95 Construction Battalion Tents (later Recreation Fields) Seabees that built Dong Tam's buildings
96 Construction Battalion Tents (later Recreation Fields) Seabees that built Dong Tam's buildings
97 Construction Battalion Tents (later Recreation Fields) Seabees that built Dong Tam's buildings
98 Construction Battalion Tents (later Recreation Fields) Seabees that built Dong Tam's buildings
99 Construction Battalion Tents (later Recreation Fields) Seabees that built Dong Tam's buildings
100 Construction Battalion Tents (later Recreation Fields) Seabees that built Dong Tam's buildings
101 Construction Battalion Tents (later Recreation Fields) Seabees that built Dong Tam's buildings
102 Construction Battalion Tents (later Recreation Fields) Seabees that built Dong Tam's buildings
103 Construction Battalion Tents (later Recreation Fields) Seabees that built Dong Tam's buildings
104 Construction Battalion Tents (later Recreation Fields) Seabees that built Dong Tam's buildings
105 Construction Battalion Tents (later Recreation Fields) Seabees that built Dong Tam's buildings
106 Construction Battalion Tents (later Recreation Fields) Seabees that built Dong Tam's buildings
107 Construction Battalion Tents (later Recreation Fields) Seabees that built Dong Tam's buildings
108 Construction Battalion Tents (later Recreation Fields) Seabees that built Dong Tam's buildings
109 Ammo Bunker
110 Ammo Bunker
111 Ammo Bunker
112 Ammo Bunker
113 Ammo Bunker
114 Ammo Bunker
115 Ammo Bunker

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