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We often would patrol in the jungle.
Sometimes we would just trample on narrow trails through thick underbrush not knowing
where we were really going. The jungles and forests were humid and lush and often were
thick with bamboo. On one patrol I saw bamboo as tall and thick as any deciduous tree one
would ever expect to see. It appeared to me to be in an area that had scarcely (or perhaps
had not) been touched by man.
Some of the photos below were taken from the helicopter as we returned from patrols to our
camp at Phan Thiet. As can be seen, Phan Thiet is a relatively large city (population of
about 50,000) with rice farming as a principal activity. Phan Thiet was also the leading
center of production of Nuoc Mam, a fermented fish sauce used by the Vietnamese with their
staple of rice. The Vietnamese man who had died and was being prepared for burial had a
bowl of rice and Nuoc Mam and other items to go with him to the afterlife.
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 View of Phan Thiet from a helicopter
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 The Phan Thiet area
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