Photograph by Dave Eckberg
The whole medical platoon got into the act of building the new shower. Here are SSG Van Dinter, left, and Doctor Mike Dang painting the newly completed shower. The water heater was ingenious: an IV bottle was filled with diesel fuel that dripped into a 105mm canister that had some gauze in the bottom. This contraption heated the water up very nicely.
Photograph by Bruce Nugent
Over a year before the hot water shower was built, the medics in the rear area also built a patio in September, 1969. Here you can see the beginning stages of the construction with Bernard Kelly (New Jersey) on the left and SGT Bowey on the right. Kelly was the foreman of the patio project. SGT Bowey was about 40 years old at the time. All materials for the project were "appropriated" late at night.
Photograph by Bruce Nugent
Here is another view of the patio being built, with Montezuma in the background.
Photograph by Bruce Nugent
This is a completed view of the patio. The Aid Station shown here is the rebuilt version after it was previously destroyed by rocket fire on LZ Bronco in mid 1969, in which several medics were wounded and killed and the Battalion Surgeon named Gold lost a hand.
 |
 |
