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Slide Item Number: VAS025633
Pages
1
Media Type
Slide
Physical Location
Stacks
Language(s)
English
Dates
Existence: November 1969
General Note
Aerial Views Cua Viet and flight along Quang Tri River to Mai Loc Aerial views from helicopter during flight with 1/77 Armored Battalion commander, Lt. Col. Miller. Mai Loc was a Special Forces and Montagnard Camp in the mountains in western Quang Tri Province. Mai Loc was located in a very greeny valley surrounded by concertina and mine fields. I was acutely aware during this flight that I had no jungle survival training, no concept of where we were flying and no idea how to attempt to survive if we crashed in these mountains. The Army provided no jungle survival training for physicians; during this period the Army's intention was dumping as many physicians into Vietnam as quickly as possible. The Army in its infinite stupidity assumed we could practice medicine anywhere but had no concern about providing jungle survival skills or what to do if the helicopter crashed, a relatively common occurrence. Aerial view Cua Viet, hospital ship offshore

Perma Link
https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=VAS025633

Citation
Slide, VAS025633. November 1969, James Evans Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=VAS025633, Accessed 15 Feb 2026.

Pub Credit Line
VAS025633, James Evans Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University

Added: 17 Oct 2004 [Updated: 04 Mar 2020]